According to a new Reuters poll, President Donald Trump’s approval rating doubled among black men in the past week. Their poll, conducted April 29th, put Trump’s approval among black men at 22 percent, while the poll taken in April put that figure at 11 percent. The new poll also showed that Trump experienced a similar jump in approval among black people overall, spiking from 8.9 percent on April 22 to 16.5 percent on April 29.
Some have been quick to attribute the sudden rise in approval to the recent support for the President from rapper Kanye West, who has been declaring his support for the President on Twitter.
The rapper certainly has been building something of a Republican fan base since his pro-Trump comments, though he’s still universally disliked overall. In a 2015 poll (yes, there seriously is historical political polling on Kanye), his net negative among Democrats was 47 points, but among Republicans, it was a whopping 63 points.
Republicans who’d heard that West praised the president hold an 18-point net favorable view of him compared to a 43-point net unfavorable view among those who hadn’t. Among Democrats who were aware, West’s ratings are a net negative 72, compared to a net negative 37 among those not following the story.
Clearly, Kanye’s public comments about Trump are influencing what people think of him – so perhaps they’re also influencing what some of his fans think about Trump.
While there’s no concrete proof of any “Kanye Effect,” the timing of the sudden jump in approval is interesting, though perhaps one could attribute this jump among blacks are part of a larger trend, as Trump’s approval has been on the rise overall.
Pro-Trump pundits have largely taken mixed stances on Kanye’s recent affection for Trump, with some dismissing it merely as a publicity stunt. While the majority of the rapper’s recent political postings on Twitter have expressed center-right sentiments, he also referred to Parkland student activist Emma Gonzalez as his hero (and attended the pro-gun control “March for Our Lives”).
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To prove my point, so far on television as well as radio , I’ve observed Keney having been criticized to the point that many have said they want to boycott him and stop playing his stuff on their networks.Mental midgets like that are beyond hopeless.
Kenye spoke as is his American right. Doing so and being black only proves that he isn’t a coward. many black people support President Trump. Many more will do so next term because Trump is gaining support because he is helping black men as well as women -work- in America. Unfortunately the women seem to prefer to support Democrat women regardless of their not being better leaders or better for the nation over all. That is pathetic in the extreme but it is a fact.People that are angry at keney for his support of the President are low intelligence, misguided individuals . Often actually racist while trying to use that term for anyone who doesn’t think as they do.
Kanye may have made it okay to say what you think, rather than do the racial solidarity march.
Kanye was right he spoke from the heart and who came down on him? That matters I think its fair that today’s black man does not wish to be thought of as a slave or the descendant of slaves so a bunch of politicians can work them over for the votes and never make life seem better or more equatable and then ask or demand they support things they know are immoral. These are proud black men ridding themselves of the perception they are slaves or just the descendants of slaves, there is no future in racism for any American.
I will likely buy one of his cds and give it to some young person just to show my support of him. Prayers for his safety for stepping out from the mob. Young people love his music.
One of Snoop Dog’s cousins has put a hit out on Kanye thru the crips gang and said he best never come back into California. I do believe that Kanye will thru his own actions turn a lot more around. That will be part of his legacy. Tremendous changes in action.
Snoop Dog had better tell is cousin to back off. The cops need to watch out for that guy, he is bad news and deserves what he gets for making threats. Kanye isn’t one of my favorite people, but he has the right to say what he believes to be true.
Overnight Kanye became a Deplorable. And he should be happy, because it means he’s broken free from the mind control of the KKK Democrats who lie and accuse others of doing exactly what they’re doing. That’s the only agenda the Dems have. To deflect attention from their own heinous crimes. Kanye is a very smart man. America needs very smart men to be able to recognize truth from error and call it out when he sees it. We’re not a country of lemmings like Nazi Germany was. When you say Dems formed the KKK in 1866, Dems will say NO, we switched sides w/Republicans. WHAT??? Whole parties don’t switch sides. Supporters can switch parties but parties don’t switch w/other parties, that’s the most ridiculous LIE I’ve ever heard. The Nazi Party is always the Nazi Party, the Communist Party is always the Communist Party, the Libertarian Party is always the Libertarian Party, The Republican is always the Republican Party and the Democratic Party is always the Democratic Party. It’s you support it’s platform you join, if you don’t you leave and go to another party that you do support. You don’t just switch en masse.
And by the way, ever since Jesus Walks I’ve admired and respected Kanye and liked his music.That song is anointed.
Through The Wire
It is about time…sure hope it continues
Where is the SS? Kanye’s life has been threatened by a “bottom feeding” rapper.
Blacks coming off the Democratic Party plantation is bad news for this leftist dominated party. The left depends strongly on the robotic black vote while at the same time favoring policies that destroy black communities. The sooner blacks in general catch on to this manipulation and destructive social policy stranglehold the Democrat left has on them the better it will be for their families and communities. The leftist Democratic Party doesn’t care about blacks all they want is their vote. A good example is how the party catered to the illegal aliens, including giving jobs away that would have gone to blacks, for the hispanic vote while taking the black vote for granted. The unemployment rate of blacks under the half white, half black muslim President Hussein Obama was at record levels while illegal alien employment under Obama was also at record levels.
I still don’t like that crapper rapper.
I don’t think its only about Kanye. If you saw the testimony of Diamond and Silk this week, they were a knock out punch to the arrogant liberals. Kanye supported Trump before and was brow beaten by Hollywood so he reversed his stance. As the democrats are now wooing the illegals and ignoring the other minorities or maybe they realized they don’t want to be enslave by the democrat party and want off the plantation.
This has to be scaring the living carp out of Democrats.
I guess it never occurred to them that it may be due to historic low black unemployment under Trump.
Glad to hear this! Never liked Kanye or his music, if you can call it that, but glad he’s a Trump supporter. Too bad his idiot wife Kim isn’t, she supported the Hildabeast.