NAACP's own poll reveals surge in black support for Trump – and they react badly

American Thinker ^ | 08/09/2018 | Thomas Lifson

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Dependence on 90% voting support from African-Americans for electoral success is the jugular vein of the Democratic Party.  President Trump's rising support among black voters is correctly seen as an existential threat to the party's – and progressivism's – ability to win national elections.  That's why I thought it was big news last Saturday when Rasmussen proclaimed that black approval of Trump had hit 29%, even though most of the media ignored it for reasons AT readers well understand.

But the surge in black support for President Trump is real – so real that even the far-left NAACP discovered it in a poll, though that poll (perhaps with a differently worded question) put the support at 21%.  Here is a graphic presentation of the result, showing the support for Trump among various ethnicities:

What's a race victimology group to do with this?  Of course, double down on charges that Trump is a racist.  Paul Bedard of the Washington Examiner:

The NAACP said in its poll analysis, "Voters across all racial and ethnic groups believe Trump is setting race relations back.  Three quarters of African-Americans, Latinos and Asian-Americans believe Trump is setting race relations back while a small majority of white voters believe so.  Black women (89 percent), in particular, feel disrespected by President Trump."

If calling Trump a racist hasn't stemmed the flow of black support his way, there is no reason to believe that shouting it more will start working.  It's almost as if the groups that purport to represent the interests of African-Americans are really more worried about their own careers.

Hat tip: Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit

[Michael.SF.]

National Association of COLORED People

Gosh, the last time I referred to a black person as colored, he did not appreciate it, though it was more common in 1972.

Maybe they should talk to more blacks and fewer coloreds.

[PJBankard]

40% participation by Republicans on a Special Election that has an auto-redo on November 6.

[freedom1st]

This is one reason talk of a Blue Wave is Fake News. Black supporters of Trump are going to vote for the Republican Congressman. I think Black Trump supporters give false answer to pollsters regarding who they are supporting in mid-terms.

[Titus-Maximus]

Go ahead, I did.

[Ohioan]

I don't want to brag--well, maybe, just a little; but there is a similar surge in my novel, which plays a roll in the plot in which the New York Times, as now, is also the antagonist. (Conservative Resource Center)

No, I do not claim to be clairvoyant? Just a Conservative who understands cause & effect. And the underlying Conservative impulses among law-abiding Black Americans has been a largely ignored resource, which the President, at least, understands.

[shanover]

The goal of the left is to get the anti-Trump women vote and push Russia,Russia,Russia. That’s all they got but angry women are a force to be reckoned with.

[kingu]

Pete Wilson, former governor of California, Ronald Reagan to name a couple. Like this site, there’s still a lot of conservatives here, just rarely anyone who campaigns towards them.

[EdnaMode]

Agreed, he was a disaster.

[redgolum]

Nailed it.

I grew up near a bunch of reservations. Lots of friends are Sioux.

They are just as redneck as the rest.

[Steve Van Doorn]

said, "Trump is a racist because Hitler."

A statement that only makes sense to zealot leftist.

[Steve Van Doorn]

This might be a swing for Trump. I don’t know if this will be a swing for republicans that support Trump.

[From The Deer Stand]

Hey NAACP, isn’t the Democrat Party the party of the KKK? Aren’t they the party that voted against the Civil Rights Amendment? Aren’t they the party that instituted federal programs that kept Blacks living in poverty in the ghettos? Believe me, the Democrats are ONLY for Blacks when they can keep them subservient, obedient, and rattle a Democrat vote of them. Wake up!

[VanDeKoik]

“Where were these voters in these primaries on Tuesday?”

Because people dont show up for primaries unless they are super competitive.

They never have. So seriously lay off the !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

And Ohio was an actual election, for an election that has to be done over again in Nov.

[raiderboy]

It is quite a pejorative. I am very proud of it. DAZI-— Democrat Socialists!!

[LeonardFMason]

EXACTLY WHY James will beat Fat-old-cow in Michigan.

[princeofdarkness]

Nixon. He got 30% in 1960. He never broke over 15% Black support in his other Presidential elections.

[wjcsux]

Dem uppity Negroes are leaving the RAT plantation.

[Oatka]

[Titus-Maximus]

Interesting on Nixon, but 1960, just coming out of the 50s, this country was different. In the last 20 years, it was never that high.

Prior to FDR, blacks were almost all Republican.

[ldish]

Lay off of who? Only complaints I have are with the repub leadership of both the house - ryan and sen - turtle and the the other rino - nevertrumpers -

I don’t see them exciting the base or the voters in the districts or working together for the team in nov cause they still want Trump to fail...glad to see some of the minority % begin to pick up cause Trump really doesn’t see see colors...he has never been that kind of person...ever!!!!