Don Lemon brags about ‘correcting’ Trump-supporting Black men ‘over

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Former CNN host Don Lemon revealed how he had to “correct” black men in battleground states when they shared why they would be voting for former President Donald Trump.

The leftwing commentator was back at his old stomping grounds, speaking to CNN host Dana Bash about how he felt compelled to set the record straight when black voters cited Trump and the economy as reasons they would vote for the GOP nominee.

“Now you have been traveling, talking to a lot of voters, and I will just say that you texted me right around the Democratic convention and you said, ‘I am talking to people and Kamala Harris has a problem with black men,’” Bash said in the segment.

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“Yeah and I told her campaign – I did not hear from them, I mean, who am I for them to get back to me – but there‘s a problem,” Lemon said.

“Look, I went from battleground state to battleground state when they invited me to the convention, I didn‘t just want to fly there, so I said, ‘I‘m going to go and talk to voters in battleground states.’ And I did,” he recounted. “It was not curated. I went up to people, just doing man on the street, ‘Who are you going to vote for” – black men – and time after time after time they said, ‘I‘m voting for Donald Trump.’”

“Why?” Bash interjeted.

“Most of the time they said ‘for economic reasons. Or because ‘he gave me a stimulus check’ and I had to correct them over and over and tell them where that stimulus check came from – a Democratic Congress and from Nancy Pelosi and that Donald Trump actually held it up so that his name could be on the check, so they think they got the check directly from him,” Lemon continued.

“Meanwhile, Joe Biden has given one or two stimulus checks as well, but they seem not to know and understand that,” the former CNN host added.

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act was passed by Congress and signed into law in March 2020, while Trump was in office. Stimulus checks went out in March and December of that year with the final rollout coming in March 2021, after Joe Biden had become president.

“You can vote for whomever you want to vote for, but the reasons that you‘re going to vote for them, I think they should be accurate and factual, and you should know why you‘re supporting someone,” Lemon told Bash.

They continued to discuss ways the Trump campaign has been appealing to black voters as Lemon claimed the Republican nominee has been using the transgender issue as a “political cudgel” in the election.

“Is it because, culturally, there‘s a more conservative sort of philosophy?” Bash asked.

“I think culturally, yes, but I think anything that you can do to drive a wedge between Kamala Harris and the black community, or any community, that they‘re going to use it,” Lemon replied.

“I would encourage people to try to understand people, to be more curious about it rather than judgmental about what the vice president has said, and to add some context of behind why she’s saying it, but I think it‘s just because they know that it can drive a wedge between her and the black community,” he added.

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Originally from New York, Powers graduated from New York University and eventually made her way to sunny South Florida. Powers also contributes to BizPac Review.