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A reality check on the President-elect Donald Trump’s pull among “voters of color” left radio host Charlamagne tha God in disbelief.
“No! One out of — really?!”
(Video: ABC News)
After running a campaign where a concerted effort was made to build inroads to urban voters in cities like Chicago, Detroit and New York City, Trump’s focus on the issues most impacting American communities led to a staggering victory against Vice President Kamala Harris.
In addition to leaving talking heads like CNN’s Jake Tapper stunned that Harris hadn’t surpassed President Joe Biden’s 2020 win in a single county, Trump had surprised the host of “The Breakfast Club” by garnering a third of non-white voters.
During the latest edition of ABC News’ “This Week,” co-host Jonathan Karl presented the data to his guest when he asked, “What do you make of the demographics here? I mean, Trump got one out of every three voters of color.”
“No,” replied Charlamagne who continued amid affirmatives from Karl, “One out of — really?!”
The host noted it was 33% has the guest continued to try and make sense of the figure, “When you say color, you mean like, black, brown everything? Oh. Well, I think that, you know, people have different issues that they care about. And I think that there’s nobody out there that’s a single-issue voter.”
“I think some of this is a backlash to race, and gender and identity politics,” he continued, “But, man, most people, they just care about keeping food on their table and keeping a roof over their head. And I think sometimes people forget about that. I think that they forget about, you know, the working class.”
“For whatever reason, Donald Trump speaks to the grievances of the working class in a real way. And I keep telling folks, people forget what you did there, forget what you said, but they’ll never forget how you made them feel,” suggested Charlamagne before attempting to hinge the outcome on a single issue. “And when you go back to 2020, even though it was a pandemic and it was COVID, people don’t care. All they know is they got stimulus checks with his name on it, and that’s what they remember.”
On his own program Friday, the radio host had called out the hyperbole and demonization from the left when he said, “But don’t y’all find it strange that now that he’s won, they’re not calling him a threat to democracy? They’re not calling him a fascist. I mean, damn, on Monday, they was just calling him that. I would think that you know, if you really believe that, then somebody’s speech would be about how America effed up and how things are about to be really bad. It just makes you wonder how much of it did they really believe, or how much of it was just politics. That’s all.”
As the interview with Karl continued, the host brought up Trump’s gains in areas like Chicago, Brooklyn and Queens to which the guest responded, “Because of dinner table issues! Yo, it’s literally that simple. Every day, people wake up and all they want to do is have more money in their pocket and they wanna feel safe.”
The question that remained was whether or not a second administration under the GOP leader could hold those gains or improve on them for the next Republican races as a caller had suggested to Charlamagne Friday, “And maybe, maybe it’s a good thing that Trump did win because we can see if he really piggybacked off of [former President Barack] Obama’s economy, cane he come bring us out of this economy? And we can see what the Republicans do.”
“So at the end of the day, if he does bring up the economy, we can look at it like maybe we just need to switch parties now or maybe do something different,” added the caller. “That’s how I feel.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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