Yeah, I do feel like negative 1.4% seems a bit too high. I’d expect more like negative 5% at highest.
Oh, sheesh. That’s pathetic on multiple levels. Not just the “Some of his friends people he speaks to in public are black!” Not just that they couldn’t come up with even six. But the obviously false assertion that he’s never been accused of racism when we have the decades of legal actions against him. Oh, and also the implication that he’s being baselessly accused by Democrats for political advantage. Leaving aside his many blatantly racist statements, he even has Republicans who are ostensibly supporting him calling him racist. How much reality does one have to ignore to think that makes sense?
Apparently, it was a survey of 1610 phone calls, of which 11% identified as black; 1% of those said they’d vote for Trump. That’s a total of 1.7 people.
If the 11% was rounded down from 11.4999%, and the 1% was rounded down from 1.49999%, that would still mean they only found 2 black voters for Trump.
I think it was a standup comic (and not about Trump, but about that friends-are-black statement in general), but it might have been in another context, but they said something like, “Friends are people you would trust to look after your kids when you have a medical emergency. You don’t have any black friends!”
Well, if only 11% of 1610 responses were black voters, that’s 177 people, which gives a margin of error of 7.3%. So, yeah, -5% is well within range.
I’ve been saying this for months. Trump isn’t going to pivot to the centre; he’s choosing to base his campaign on hard-right racism, violence and voter suppression.
The repeated Nazi-themed gaffes aren’t gaffes; they’re intentional.
