President Trump is doing just that. His economic and criminal justice reforms have benefited the Black community tremendously. Some polls have President Trump above a 30 percent approval rating among Black voters. Even if President Trump were to get 16 to 20 percent of the Black vote, it would spell certain doom for the Democrat Party’s presidential candidate in 2020.
The Republican Party must follow the president’s lead. For years the Republican Party made few attempts to appeal to Black voters. They practically gifted this significant voting bloc to the dreadful Democrats, who have exploited the Black community for decades.
There is absolutely no reason for the Democrat Party to have a near monopoly on Black voters. The Black community is achieving unprecedented success under a Republican president. It’s time for the Republican Party as a whole to capitalize on that success. In doing so they could finish the Democrats.
Republican Outreach to Black Community Must Be New Year’s Resolution
By Breitbart, December 28, 2019:
Recently I heard from a friend of mine, successful businessman and founder of The New American Populist (TNAP), Jeff Webb, about a meeting he had attended a in Virginia with a group of black entrepreneurs.
Not surprisingly, one of main themes that emerged from the gathering was how the attendees felt Republicans have a better message for the black community, but Democrats do a much better job of delivering messages. In most cases, they said, Republicans don’t even bother to try.
What a damning indictment on the conservative movement, at least historically.
While that may have been the case for the “typical” Republican politician, it is certainly not the case for the atypical President Trump. With the enthusiastic encouragement of his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, he has been reaching out to the black community with both words and actions since before his presidency even started—and the impact is just now starting to be felt.
To put this achievement in proper perspective: Politico even published a recent story headlined “Trump shocks Black voters-by trying to get their votes.” The piece opened by citing how the Trump campaign ran a full-page ad in the Westside Gazette, a paper that proclaims itself to be “Broward County’s oldest and largest African American owned-and-operated newspaper.” Many wondered, “Why would he bother?”
The president bothers because he knows what that group of black entrepreneurs in Virginia was saying is true. Republicans have not made any inroads with the black community because they haven’t taken the time or made the efforts to do so. They have left a 13% segment of our population, one dependent upon the broken promises and welfare-state Democrats, completely untapped ever since Lyndon Johnson’s not-so-Great Society programs launched in the 1960s.
Republicans have rationalized leaving this important voting bloc completely unreached because of long-assumed campaign axioms that should be tossed aside and burned in the trash heap of establishment Republican history.
Using valuable campaign resources to reach the black community, it was thought, was considered pandering to “leftist identity politics” or simply a bad return on campaign resources.
These perspectives fail to understand that the black community is as unique as any other community in America. Would a candidate use the same pitch to the rural farmer in Iowa as he or she would to the cosmopolitan in New York City? Of course not! This isn’t pandering, it’s politics, and the return of investment could be greater than any other dollars spent in 2020.
To win national elections, and many statewide races, progressives require a supermajority of Black voters. As someone who works on college campuses all year long, I know only too well that what is true with younger voters is also true with the black community: We don’t need to win a majority; we simply need to lose by less.
And in his less than three years in office, here’s what the president can include in his pitch to Black America:
- Passed the First Step Act, a bill which disproportionately impacts Black and minority populations
- Enacted economic policies which have reduced the unemployment rate for Blacks to 5.4%, the lowest level since the measure has been followed
- Signed an Executive Order moving Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) under the direct supervision of the White House so that funding and support becomes a national priority
- Created Economic Opportunity Zones, which incentivize long-term capital investment in low-income, often urban, communities
These are signature accomplishments, but even more could be done under this president if the Democrat Party, which pretends to care about the black community, would focus on working with the president instead of trying to remove him.
Ex-NFL star predicts ‘black awakening’ will give Trump unprecedented support in 2020
By Fox News, December 28, 2019:
Former NFL player Jack Brewer once campaigned for Barack Obama but now rejects the Democratic Party after “awakening” to the way it abandoned African Americans, he said Saturday.
“For me, once I saw the policies that President Obama pushed in the back half of his presidency just — it left a bad taste in my mouth,” he said during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”
Brewer predicted that a “black awakening” would lead to President Trump garnering more than 20 percent of the black vote in 2020.
“And then I really started being awakening [sic] to what was happening with the Democratic Party — making so many promises but then abandoning the community that I worked so hard in.”
Brewer now leads the The Brewer Group, which encourages “a deep commitment to community service into … daily corporate culture.” In the NFL, the standout defensive back played for the Vikings, Giants, Eagles and Cardinals.
JACK BREWER: TRUMP’S SUPPORT FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS IS GROWING — HERE’S WHY DEMS WILL BE SURPRISED
Brewer also expressed frustration with the 1994 crime bill, a point of contention others have raised surrounding former Vice President Joe Biden’s relationship with the black community.
“I said enough was enough,” he added, “and I really started putting aside what my parents and my grandparents taught me about sticking to the Democratic Party because they were the party for African Americans.”
“You know all that rhetoric sounded good back in the ’60s, but the facts are that the policies just don’t help our families,” Brewer said.
Brewer’s comments came as Trump battled House Democrats over impeachment and touted his economic record, which includes record-low unemployment for African Americans. Trump has accused Democrats and members of the “deep state” — including the FBI — of unfairly targeting him in the Russia investigation and other matters.
African Americans, Brewer indicated, should sympathize with Trump given their history with the FBI.
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Passed the First Step Act, a bill which disproportionately impacts Black and minority populations
This has already being proven to be a disaster. Liberal judges are exploiting this to define punishment down for blacks and minorities. The REAL problem is NO FATHERS in the household. It’s not too bad when they are little but when they hit their teens, the trouble begins with single mothers. I can’t pretend this is good just because Jared spear headed this wrong headed effort. This was his pet peeve because his father served time for embezzlement in federal prison. Ivanka and Jared should never have been allowed near ANY policy decisions.
Report: ‘First Step Act’ Frees Hundreds of Sex Offenders, Convicted Murderers
JOHN BINDER
26 Jul 2019
The Republican and Democrat-supported criminal justice reform legislation, known as the “First Step Act,” has already allowed hundreds of violent convicted criminals to be released from federal prison, records reveal.
The First Step Act, championed by a coalition of the leftist criminal justice reform movement, mogul Kim Kardashian West, and libertarian organizations funded by the billionaire Koch brothers, was signed into law last year by President Trump as advocates repeatedly claimed violent criminals would not be released early from prison.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/26/report-first-step-act-frees-hundreds-of-sex-offenders-convicted-murderers/
Accused Murderer Freed by ‘First Step Act’ Instantly Returned to Drug Life
JOHN BINDER
29 Oct 2019
A notorious leader of the “Almighty Latin Kings” gang, now accused of murder, instantly returned to a life of drugs and violence after being released from federal prison by the “First Step Act.”
In early February, 41-year-old Joel Francisco — dubbed the “Crown Prince” of the Latin Kings gang in 2005 — was released from prison after President Donald Trump signed into law the First Step Act, promoted by a coalition of Democrats, Republicans, and progressive and libertarian nonprofits.
Less than a year after his release, Francisco allegedly murdered 46-year-old Troy Pine by stabbing him to death and skipped town in an attempt to evade murder charges. Weeks ago, police captured Francisco in Texas and extradited him to Rhode Island.
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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/10/29/accused-murderer-freed-by-first-step-act-instantly-returned-to-drug-life/
Need more examples of this FAILURE where early release is allowed by IDENTITY POLITICS?
It’s not the “elites” that will be affected by this. It is YOU who will be affected by this.
It never pays to define punishment down as First Step does.
Signed an Executive Order moving Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) under the direct supervision of the White House so that funding and support becomes a national priority
Again IDENTITY POLITICS got this going. No doubt the curriculum of HATE was not changed. Imagine having a WHITE COLLEGE getting this kind of treatment….
Created Economic Opportunity Zones, which incentivize long-term capital investment in low-income, often urban, communities
A repeat of Jack Kemp’s empowerment zones which in the long run proved to be a failure. Initially they make take advantage of the tax incentives but they eventually leave because it is unsafe and the crime is high. Would you put your company in San Francisco, Seattle, Washington, Camden or Trenton New Jersey? How many times must we waste tax payer money on something that has been proven to NOT WORK?
Enterprise Zones: A Bipartisan Failure
By Bruce Bartlett, The Fiscal Times
January 10, 2014
On Wednesday, President Obama endorsed the idea of “promise zones,” a variation of the old Republican idea of enterprise zones. These new zones—located in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Southeastern Kentucky and the Choctaw Nation in Oklahoma—will receive intensive federal support, together with state and local initiatives, to raise growth and employment.
The idea of targeting tax and other incentives to specific areas dates back at least to the 1968 presidential campaign, when both Richard Nixon and Bobby Kennedy endorsed the idea. In the 1970s, the idea was picked up in England, where more than two dozen enterprise zones were established.
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Unfortunately, the evidence shows that enterprise zones are at best a very weak generator of jobs. The U.S. Government Accountability Office has done several studies and concluded that there was no significant difference in economic growth or job creation inside the enterprise zones from the surrounding area.
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There are a variety of reasons for why enterprise zones have failed. One is that businesses simply gamed the system and figured out ways to get the tax cuts without doing much of anything in return, something economists call “rent-seeking.” Often, the “job creation” in the zones resulted simply from the relocation of business just outside the zone into the zone. Another problem is that high taxes are not a significant reason why businesses don’t invest in the inner cities now. It’s more because they lack an educated labor force, transportation, a local population with purchasing power and other factors that the enterprise zone concept didn’t address.
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Supporters refuse to acknowledge that enterprise zones were a good idea that was worth trying and just didn’t work. Instead, they keep beating this dead horse as if it is still an untried idea from which we have no experience of failure. On Dec. 18, Sens. Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell, both of Kentucky, proposed new enterprise zone legislation as if they just came up with the idea for the first time.
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http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2014/01/10/Enterprise-Zones-Bipartisan-Failure
Their communities need “go to school and graduate” zones.
I do hope the RNC is reaching out to the INTELLIGENT black community because we all know who the UNINTELLIGENT BLACK PEOPLE ARE: black gangs, black liberals, black thugs in every city whose mouths are louder than their ideas/solutions. These are the people who call everyone who disagrees with them RACIST. They don’t know what righteous character is because they never had it.
I have black friends who are highly intelligent, with good character, because they are educated and believe me, that makes a lot of difference. But, what also makes a lot of difference is COMMON SENSE AND HISTORY. IF you are a black, educated person with common sense, you will UNDERSTAND the history of black slavery and why the WHITE PEOPLE FREED them.
A black man named Anthony Johnson owned the 1st black slave in America.
Trump should create a “free trade agreement” with Africa where African-Americans can apply for loans and subsidies when trading with African states. Trump should also introduce job quotas for government employees working and living in Africa to increase employment for African-Americans. Trump needs to wake up because Muslims and ChiComs are “invading” Africa at a rapid rate.