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Empowering the Black Community
00:02:13
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| Ted, what could the Trump team do to make the messaging to the black community more engaging? | |
| Well, we have to, I think, once again, if we begin to message his accomplishments and let the accomplishments overshadow the accusations that are made against him. | |
| You know, they bring out this, they'll trap this same tired narrative out against him. | |
| But in the past four years, Donald Trump has been very, very proactive regarding the black community. | |
| He's bent over backwards, so to speak, to empower the black community. | |
| Once again, through the creation of the opportunity zones, through the urban revitalization initiatives, through prison reform, through criminal justice reform, through funding for HBCUs. | |
| He's done that. | |
| And what we have to do then, we have to cry loud and spare not. | |
| We have to accent the positive contributions that he's made to the black community and overshadow and overwhelm this nonsense that they're trying to promote. | |
| You know, one thing I say about President Trump, you know, when people try to accuse him in different respects, I said, listen, what you guys are saying is racial is not racial at all. | |
| It's cultural. | |
| Here's a 70-plus year-old white billionaire. | |
| He's not going to turn his hat backwards, sag his blue jeans, and start trying to bump rap music and try to quote unquote stereotypically act black like so many politicians do in order to try to pander for a black vote. | |
| Once again, if you don't want to believe in him for the words that he speaks, believe in him for the works that he's done. | |
| And you know one thing that I know, you know, he got 8% of the black vote in 2016. | |
| That 8% is solid. | |
| I don't believe we've lost any of that 8%. | |
| So I believe that we've actually built upon it. | |
| We've gained. | |
| And you're going to see more black support for Donald Trump in 2016 than you saw, I mean, excuse me, in 2020, than you saw in 2016. | |
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Silent Support
00:01:01
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| We're going to build upon the support that he already has through messaging those positive accomplishments. | |
| And it's going to be amazing, but not surprising, the support that he has in the black community. | |
| There's a silent factor, a silent segment, a silent portion in our community. | |
| They don't want to argue with their family. | |
| They don't want to argue with their friends. | |
| They don't want to argue at work over their support for Donald Trump. | |
| You know, a lot of people aren't vocal. | |
| A lot of people aren't argumentative. | |
| A lot of people don't want to fight. | |
| But when they get in that voter's booth and it's just them, the ballot, and God, they're going to vote for Donald Trump. | |
| I know it. | |
| I know too many people that say, I'm going to vote for him. | |
| I'm just not going to argue with anybody about it. | |
| I don't want the backlash. | |
| I don't want the public pressure. | |
| I don't want anybody trying to cancel culture me, but I'm going to vote for Donald Trump. | |
| So I'm very confident in that. | |