Tennessee Democrats in Shelby County held a “Black Men for Kamala” event on Monday in response to the push by former President Barack Obama for black men to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in November.
The event was described by the Shelby County Democratic Party as an “emergency press conference” held “in Response to President Barack Obama’s Call” in a press release that referenced the former president’s speech in Pennsylvania last week.
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Former President Donald Trump’s support among black men has increased in battleground states ahead of the 2024 election by more than double his support among the same group in 2020’s election, according to a poll published on Thursday by The Wall Street Journal.
Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has long sought to gain support among black voters, traditionally a Democratic-supporting demographic, by touting his record on the economy and criminal justice reform while in office, among other matters. A recent poll estimated that 30 percent of black men in seven battleground states — Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — “definitely or probably” plan to vote for Trump in November’s election, an increase of 18 percent from his nationwide performance among that demographic in 2020, where he earned 12 percent of their votes, the Journal reported.
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