Black Support for Trump Surges Past the ‘Danger Zone’ for Dems

Rasmussen Reports has their latest poll numbers on Donald Trump out – and they demonstrate a surge in minority support, particularly among blacks, over the past year.

Overall, Trump’s approval is nearly perfectly split with 50% approving and 49% disapproving, and this reflects improving favorability. The biggest increase in support, however, has come from the black community. While 18% approved of Trump to some extent a year ago, today that figure has surged to 31%.

A separate poll from the NAACP puts support at 21%.

Even that 18 percent figure from last year marks an improvement from Election Day – if such figures indicate that those blacks polled would then be willing to vote for Trump. Eight percent of black voters voted for Trump in 2016 (as did 29% of Hispanics, which you’d never believe if you listened to the media’s pro-illegal immigrant hysteria). In none of the past four Presidential elections did a Republican garner over 10% of the black vote. Trump’s support among whites (the largest voting block in America) has remained constant, meaning that any additional increase in minority support, no matter how small, only increases his chances of victory.

Obviously, a jump from 8 percent support to 18 percent, to 29%, is more than a “small” increase, and there’s a good reason for it. Despite how the media loves to portray Trump as an enemy of minorities (as they do to all Republicans), Trump has done more for the black community than Obama did.

• It’s working-class blacks that lose the most from illegal immigration, both in terms of lot employment and increased competition driving their wages down. For that reason, it should come to no surprise that twice as many black voters support Trump’s policy on deportations than oppose it.
• In January, the black unemployment rate fell to its lowest point in recorded history.
• Under Obama, the labor-force-participation rate for black Americans across the board has slipped from 63.2 percent to 61.7 percent, the percentage of blacks below the poverty line grew from 25.8% to 26.2%, and average incomes declined from $35,954 to $35,398.

According to The Federalist’s Joseph Sheppard, any black support for Trump past 10% puts Democrats in the “danger zone” when it comes to a challenger’s electability.

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Trump has already breached the 10% threshold, and as a surging economy continues to drive black support to Trump, CNN is too busy reporting on Stormy Daniels and the faux-Russia investigation. It’s a good thing for us that CNN hasn’t figured out that no one cares about those “issues.”