Donald Trump Jr. has said that he is popular among African American men “now more than ever.”
On the latest episode of his podcast Triggered, published February 26, Trump Jr. said, “The amount of African American men that have come up to me literally like, ‘Hey, man, you’re my hero!'”
Donald Trump‘s presidential campaign has said it hopes to gain greater support from Black voters for the former president. Chris LaCivita, a GOP political consultant, previously said it would be “an opportunity that we would be remiss if we didn’t exploit,” the Associated Press reported.
Trump Jr., speaking with conservative activist Scott Presler, added that there seems to be a “sort of catching on to just how rigged the system is.”
He continued: “It’s palpable, and I notice the difference versus ’16, where it was like, ‘I don’t dislike you. I’m told you’re a racist,'” before adding, “There seems to be a palpable swing.”
Trump Campaign and Black Voters
On X, formerly Twitter, users reacted by mocking Trump Jr. and his comments.
“I’ll take ‘Things that never happened in any lifetime’ for $1000,” one person wrote.
Another person wrote, “Real heroes are those who work tirelessly for the betterment of all, not just those who claim the spotlight, or need your campaign contributions.”
Newsweek has contacted Trump Jr. via an email to the Trump Organization outside of normal working hours.
Some polling in recent months has suggested Trump could be on course to win a higher share of the Black vote than any Republican candidate since Richard Nixon in 1960. Nixon received 32 percent of the vote share, according to Politico.
Trump winning an estimated 13 percent of the Black vote in 2024 would be the highest number of votes a Republican presidential candidate has ever received. This is due to a population increase and higher voter turnouts.
Pew Research Center analysis of validated voters in 2020 said 8 percent of Black voters cast their ballots in favor of Trump during that year’s election.
National and swing state polls reviewed by Bloomberg in January said Trump has between 14 percent and 30 percent of the Black vote share.
An NBC News poll released in early February said Biden still holds a major advantage over Trump in the polls with 75 percent of the vote, but his likely Republican opponent is up to 16 percent.
A total of 25 percent of Black adults said they viewed Trump in a favorable light in an AP–NORC Center poll conducted in December.
The poll also found that 50 percent Black voters…
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