President Trump is making a major pitch for black voters and has announced a $500 billion plan that would provide money for black businesses and will designate Anitfa and KKK as terror groups. Fox News. The plan would also make lynching a federal hate crime as well as designating Juneteenth a federal holiday. The plan would hope to create 500,000 new black owned businesses and would allow 3 million jobs for blacks. The would also be an effort to advance home ownership, help with financial literacy, and give school choice.
My Comment:
Looks like President Trump is making a strong pitch for black voters. The things in this plan are mostly a checklist of things that black people want. By selling this as a GOP plan they are taking away a major Democrat talking point.
Will this help him win the election? I think it's possible. I do think that the Democrats take black Americans for granted. However, they shouldn't. President Trump improved on Mitt Romeny and John McCain's numbers in 2016 and that was before he made this pitch. Historically Republicans have rarely passed 10% for black voters, but it may even be as high as 15% for President Trump. His goal isn't to bring the whole race over to the GOP but just enough votes to erase any losses President Trump has among other groups. It might even be enough for President Trump to win the popular vote if he can exceed the 15% I've seen as an upper bound.
I do think that a major investment in the black community could help things. It won't solve all the problems there but it would give people a chance to have a better life then they have now. I see this as an effort to expand the black middle class, which was hurt badly due to the policies of the Democratic Party.
I'm not a fan of everything though. I don't think there is a need for a lynching law since the crime would already be covered by existing laws. Murdering someone because of their race is already a hate crime so I don't know what a lynching law would accomplish. But I also like how shamelessly President Trump stole the idea. I know that in the leadup to the Jussie Smollett disaster, Kamala Harris was trying to get a lynching law passed. Taking one of her signature issues and making it his own is a power move.
I'm also wondering what the point of designating the KKK a terror group. I think it's one of those "both sides are bad things" to make labeling Antifa more palatable. It seems pointless though as the KKK is a shell of an organization that is mostly made up of feds looking for an arrest to make their career. They are mostly a joke, though I don't mind them being called terror group.
Labeling Antifa a terror group is a huge victory. Some might question why Antifa is getting labeled in an effort to help black people but it makes a lot of sense to me. Antifa rioted in black communities and have killed several black people. In addition to the deaths it caused massive damage to black owned businesses and greatly reduced the opportunities black people have.
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