Black Republicans Push For Trump’s Re-election In the Final Weeks Of The Campaign

Conservative commentator Gianno Caldwell’s profile is rising on the eve of the presidential election with his outspoken support of President Donald Trump. On Fox News, the Chicago native said, “Don’t say I ‘ain’t Black’ because I won’t vote for Biden.” His podcast and social media posts accuse Twitter and Facebook of “colluding with the Democrats against Trump” in the waning days of the election season.

With only fifteen days until the election, Black voters are turning out in most states to support Democratic candidates, but Caldwell and the group, Black Republicans to Re-elect the President, are mounting an aggressive last-minute push in hopes of sending Trump to the White House for another years.

In an email correspondence, Vernon Robinson, treasurer of the group, said ads are airing on urban radio in seven swing states, and he asked members to donate $27,000 for the campaign.

Robinson wrote, “We have distributed almost 2 million Keep Black America Great booklets on the street.”

Black Voices for Trump, another political organization, is also mobilizing supporters in the final days of the campaign.

A member of the advisory board, Eddie Edwards, said, “Trump has done more than any president to welcome Blacks & Latinos back to the Republican Party…no other Republican president has been able to do that.”

Edwards’ remarks sounded like one of Trump’s familiar riffs utilized when he is questioned about his record with Black Americans. He often claims he has done more for African Americans than any president since Abraham Lincoln.

In a recent article published by the Brookings Institution, Trump’s record is examined from his boast about creating the lowest employment among Black Americans to the disproportionate impact of the coronavirus pandemic to eliminating federal funding for diversity training.  

Rapper Ice Cube has recently been on the receiving end of collective side-eye after word spread that he helped advise the Trump administration on its “Platinum Plan,” an initiative to help African Americans. In a tweet, the rapper who as recently as 2018 released the song, ‘Arrest the President,’ said, “Black progress is a bipartisan issue…I will advise anybody on the planet who has the power to help Black Americans close the enormous wealth gap.”

Polls indicate that one in 10 Black voters is a Trump supporter, a statistic that mirrors the 2016 election. But it may have little to do with Trump. Surveys also indicate that over the last three decades one of every 10 Black Americans identifies as a Republican.