NBC Newsâ Dasha Burns told MSNBC on Friday that black and Hispanic voters reject her suggestive statements that former President Donald Trump is racist.
Trump held a rally on Thursday in the Bronx, which is a largely Democratic and Hispanic area, with thousands of Americans reportedly attending. Burns said on âAna Cabrera Reportsâ that black and Hispanic voters typically are unmoved when she brings up examples of Trumpâs alleged racism because they feel âlife was betterâ under his administration than President Joe Bidenâs.
âI talk to these voters about the Central Park five,â Burns said. âI talk to them about some of the comments that heâs made, and the policies beyond rhetoric, right? They are just so focused on what their lives are like right now, what they can feel tangibly that when I push back with those comments, they shut that down.â
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Radio host Charlamagne Tha God pointed to three âtangible thingsâ that black Americans may appreciate from Trumpâs administration in a recent interview with The New York Times. He said two of Trumpâs policies to boost the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic and one policy on criminal justice reform may be part of his appeal with black voters.
âThey said, âlisten, he might say some things.â Again, they focused on the rhetoric still because they feel like thatâs what the media sort of consistently puts out there,â Burns added. âThey say âhe might say some stuff thatâs offensive, but at the end of the day, I feel like my life was better under former President Trump than under President Biden.ââ
âThis is what I hear from voters consistently, and we see this reflected in the data as weâre seeing these numbers of black and Hispanic voters sort of getting chipped away from the Democratic Party and moving towards Trump ⌠I see this consistently as I talk to these demographics,â she said.
Trump has decreased the deficit with Biden among black and Hispanic Americans across the six swing states, a recent New York Times/Siena College poll found. Biden is leading Trump 70% to 18% among black voters and 47% to 42% among Hispanic voters, according to the poll.
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten said on Friday that Trumpâs Bronx rally is a negative indicator for Bidenâs reelection chances as it is representative of the shift of Latino voters.
âThis is a sign of the Hispanic movement that we saw last cycle, right, where we saw, although Hispanics still favored the Democratic candidate in Joe Biden, they were less likely to favor him than they did Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama both times,â Enten said. âAnd itâs not just there that happened. We saw it in Hispanic precincts and counties across the country from southeast Florida, southern Texas, even in the Los Angeles area.â
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