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Trump's Black Supporters: Inside a Small and Divided World
Source: New York Times
Trump’s Black Supporters: Inside a Small and Divided World
By Michael D. Shear, John Eligon and Maggie Haberman
March 2, 2019
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At the committee hearing, the surprise appearance of a black Trump surrogate raised fresh debates in Washington about the paltry number of black people who are in Mr. Trump’s orbit — the few who have worked in his private company or work in his White House, serve in his cabinet and speak for him on his favorite medium of cable news — and what their presence means for the administration.
According to some polls, 92 percent of black voters, who are overwhelmingly Democrats, disapprove of Mr. Trump. But even among the small collection of Mr. Trump’s African-American supporters, there are factions.
There are the true believers who maintain he can do no wrong; the ones who stick with the president even when his rhetoric makes them queasy; those who agree with his policies but dislike how some black Trump supporters play to racial stereotypes. And then there are the black Republicans who believe that Mr. Trump has no interest in helping black people and are exasperated by the African-Americans who still defend him.
Raynard Jackson, a veteran black political strategist and Trump supporter, said he winced during the Cohen hearings when Lynne Patton, a black member of the administration, was summoned and stood silently behind Representative Mark Meadows of North Carolina, a white, conservative congressman, to counter Mr. Cohen’s claims that the president is racist.
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By Michael D. Shear, John Eligon and Maggie Haberman
March 2, 2019
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At the committee hearing, the surprise appearance of a black Trump surrogate raised fresh debates in Washington about the paltry number of black people who are in Mr. Trump’s orbit — the few who have worked in his private company or work in his White House, serve in his cabinet and speak for him on his favorite medium of cable news — and what their presence means for the administration.
According to some polls, 92 percent of black voters, who are overwhelmingly Democrats, disapprove of Mr. Trump. But even among the small collection of Mr. Trump’s African-American supporters, there are factions.
There are the true believers who maintain he can do no wrong; the ones who stick with the president even when his rhetoric makes them queasy; those who agree with his policies but dislike how some black Trump supporters play to racial stereotypes. And then there are the black Republicans who believe that Mr. Trump has no interest in helping black people and are exasperated by the African-Americans who still defend him.
Raynard Jackson, a veteran black political strategist and Trump supporter, said he winced during the Cohen hearings when Lynne Patton, a black member of the administration, was summoned and stood silently behind Representative Mark Meadows of North Carolina, a white, conservative congressman, to counter Mr. Cohen’s claims that the president is racist.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/02/us/trump-black-supporters.html
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