{"id":11461,"date":"2018-10-19T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T17:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11461"},"modified":"2018-10-19T10:49:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T17:49:59","slug":"could-trump-win-20-percent-of-the-african-american-vote-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/could-trump-win-20-percent-of-the-african-american-vote-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Trump Win 20 Percent of the African-American Vote in 2020?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he provocative Donald Trump certainly seems to be disliked by a majority of African-American professional athletes, cable-news hosts, academics, and the Congressional Black Caucus. Yet there are subtle but increasing indications that his approval among other African Americans may be reaching historic highs for a modern Republican president.<\/p>\n<p>Some polls have indicated that Trump\u2019s approval rating among black voters is close to 20 percent. That is far higher than the 8 percent of the African-American vote that Trump received on Election Day 2016.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--center ad-unit--inline\">\n<div class=\"ad-unit__inner\">\n<div class=\"hide-for-subscribers\"><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">A recent, admittedly controversial Rasmussen Reports poll showed African-American approval of Trump at 36 percent.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Even 20 percent African-American support for Trump would all but dismantle Democratic-party presidential hopes for 2020. Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election with 88 percent of the black vote. That was about a six-point falloff from Barack Obama\u2019s share of the black vote in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2018\/10\/trump-support-black-voters-2020-election\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review The provocative Donald Trump certainly seems to be disliked by a majority of African-American professional athletes, cable-news hosts, academics, and the Congressional Black Caucus. Yet there are subtle but increasing indications that his approval among other African Americans may be reaching historic highs for a modern Republican president. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1161,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2YR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12608,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-race-and-class\/","url_meta":{"origin":11461,"position":0},"title":"Trump, Race, and Class","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 10, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There\u00a0are some stunning indications that the supposedly satanic racist Donald Trump could be polling in some surveys around a 35-40 approval rate among Latinos and 20\u201330 percent among African Americans. 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