{"id":2248039,"date":"2024-05-19T14:58:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T18:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-carson-makes-the-case-for-why-black-voters-are-gravitating-trumps-way\/"},"modified":"2024-05-19T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T19:00:56","slug":"ben-carson-makes-the-case-for-why-black-voters-are-gravitating-trumps-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ben-carson-makes-the-case-for-why-black-voters-are-gravitating-trumps-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Carson Explains Why Black Voters Are Turning Towards Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fben-carson-makes-the-case-for-why-black-voters-are-gravitating-trumps-way%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2248039&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Dr. Ben Carson, a\u2064 potential VP \u2062candidate for Donald Trump, argued why more Black Americans might support the Republican ticket \u2064in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/are-covid-case-surges-more-fake-news\/\" title=\"Are COVID Case Surges More Fake News?\">upcoming election<\/a>. During a CNN \u2062interview, Carson discussed Trump&#8217;s appeal and the \u2062concerns of Black voters, emphasizing common concerns like \u200binflation, crime rates, and border policies affecting their communities. \u2063Carson&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ceo-of-sound-planning-group-provides-more-context-on-the-new-jobs-report-and-debt-ceiling-stalemate\/\" title=\"Sound Planning Group CEO elaborates on jobs report and debt ceiling deadlock.\">insights shed light<\/a> on the dynamics of the upcoming election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>Dr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/ben-carson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ben Carson<\/a>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2023\/us\/politics\/donald-trump-vp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">possible contender<\/a> for former President Donald Trump\u2019s running mate, made the case on Sunday for why more black Americans may vote for the Republican ticket this election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d anchor Jake Tapper asked Carson if Trump could improve his numbers after getting 12% of the black vote \u2014 including 19% of black men \u2014 in the 2020 contest against now-President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, you know, black Americans are no different than any other Americans,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/simonateba\/status\/1792199995849859203\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> Carson, himself a black man who served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development throughout the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey feel the pinch of the inflation. You know, they know what it feels like when they have to go fill up their gas tank,\u201d he said. \u201cThey see the crime that\u2019s running rampant, that people, repeat offenders are being let out of prison and endangering them and their neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carson added, \u201cThey see what\u2019s happening with the border and how that\u2019s impacting their own communities, how other people\u2019s issues are being put on the front burners and theirs are being put on the back burners. I think those are the issues that are pushing them toward Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Polling in recent months indicates that more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-happening-trump-now-up-in-michigan-florida-pennsylvania-and-tied-in-wisconsin-and-black-hispanic-and-evangelical-vote-is-up-from-2016\/\" title=\"IT'S HAPPENING! Trump Now Up in Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and Tied in Wisconsin -- And Black, Hispanic and Evangelical Vote Is UP from 2016!\">black voters<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/01\/21\/biden-black-voters-south-carolina-00136728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">particularly black men<\/a>, are turning away from Biden and said they plan to support Trump in the 2024 election across several battleground states.<\/p>\n<p>Bernice King, the youngest daughter of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mlks-daughter-bernice-king-black-men-more-attracted-to-donald-trump-and-his-candidacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently said<\/a> on Bloomberg Television that the Biden administration needs to develop a strategy to better address the concerns of black voters, especially black men.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there are people in the black community who are feeling like not a lot has changed, especially economically, in the black community, and I think many of them are being driven by that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Carson <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Jules31415\/status\/1792242897636446274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> Tapper he has not spoken to Trump about the VP position but stated he would be \u201cwilling to discuss policies, the differences\u201d when asked if he would be up for a debate with Vice President Kamala Harris \u2014 the first black person to serve in the role.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a unique situation, where you have juxtaposed two different administrations with different philosophies,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd people can see, how did one feel versus how did the other feel? And I would love to debate with her or with anyone about that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Carson, a potential VP pick for Donald Trump, highlighted reasons why more Black Americans might support the Republican ticket in the upcoming election. Speaking on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Carson responded to Jake Tapper&#8217;s query on Trump&#8217;s growing appeal among Black voters, hinting at a potential increase from the current 12%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":2248040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2023788904-scaled-e1716142130695.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2248039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2024\/05\/GettyImages-2023788904-scaled-e1716142130695.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248039\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}