Seems like most of you are missing something important.
This is a bigger deal than you think. Charlamagne is representative of a major move going on with the emerging influence of those 40 and under migrating from getting their news and opinions formed by online sources and away from mainstream sources.
Charlamagne’s YouTube channel has 4.4 MILLION subscribers. Rogan has over 8 million. Pete DeFranco is about 6.5 million. Crowder, Pool, Dore, etc. all buliding massive audiences that are starting to approach the same levels as cable stations.
We know from surveys that African-American party registration depends on age and the younger you are the more likely you are registering Republican. Something like only 5% of the A-A seniors are Repubs, while nearly 20% of the under 30 crowd is Repubs (Millennials are basically 40 and below).
Charlamagne’s audience is basically 40 and below, which is why this Biden interview is so damaging to him because it gives the influencers like Kanye and Diddy and others the chance to reinforce the move that is going on.
We might well look back on this election in November and point to this moment as the most underappreciated event in Trump’s re-election. Salena Zito was one of the few major journalists who saw what was happening in 2016 and if you aren;t paying attention to any of these online influencers you will be missing a big piece of the thinking.
This is a bigger deal than you think.
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Yes. Biden showed what an arrogant, entitled prick he is.
Trump in 2016(and since) has been working hard to earn the vote of black Americans..... whereas Biden just thinks all black votes belong to him. Period.