Senior Pastor Lorenzo Sewell of 180 Church called out the Democratic Party on Fox News, telling host Laura Ingraham on Monday that the party has taken the black vote “for granted.”
Sewell appeared on “The Ingraham Angle” to discuss his recent meeting with former President Donald Trump in Detroit. Sewell went viral for pointing out that President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama didn’t visit “the hood,” and thanked Trump for his visit. After playing a clip of a CNN data reporter highlighting a significant shift towards Trump among a key Democratic voting bloc, Ingraham asked Sewell if he was surprised by black voters leaning more to the right in this election.
“The reason why it doesn’t surprise me [is] because the Democrats, they have taken our vote for granted,” Sewell said. “The Democrats, they have led our community for 56 years. We have a $2.7 billion budget but, yet, no change. You don’t have to be spiritual, you don’t have to be logical, you just have to see. Ray Charles could see that their policies are failing our communities.”
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CNN senior data election reporter Harry Enten said on Monday that former President Donald Trump is heading towards an impressive performance with black voters in the 2024 election.
A recent New York Times/Siena College poll conducted in May found that Trump has considerably narrowed his gap with President Joe Biden among black Americans in six battleground states, with Biden leading Trump 70% to 18%. Enten expressed surprise on “CNN News Central” about Trump’s performance among black voters as a Republican candidate and noted Biden’s growing unpopularity with the demographic.
“I keep looking for this to change, to go back to a historical norm, and it, simply put, has not yet,” Enten said to begin the segment. “So this is the margin, or, Biden and Trump among black voters, compare where we were at this point in 2020, compare to where we are now.
“At this point, look at this. In 2020, Joe Biden was getting 86% of the African American vote. Look at where it is now. It’s 70%, that’s a 16-point drop, John,” Enten told host John Berman. “And more than that, it’s not just that Joe Biden is losing ground. It’s that Donald Trump is gaining ground.”
“Look at black voters under the age of 50,” the data reporter continued. “Holy cow, folks, holy cow. Look at this. Joe Biden was up by 80 points among this group back at this point in 2020; look at where that margin has careened down. It’s now just, get this: 37 points. That lead has dropped by more than half.
“I’ve just never seen anything like this. I’m like speechless because you always look at history and you go, ‘okay, this is a historic moment.’ If this polling is anywhere near correct, we’re looking at a historical moment right now, where black voters under the age of 50, which have historically been such a big part of the democratic coalition, are leaving in droves,” he added.
“It’s partially an artifact of Donald Trump perhaps being better liked among black voters, but it’s also a real artifact of Joe Biden being significantly less liked among black voters than he was four years ago,” Enten concluded.
