{"id":2256016,"date":"2024-05-30T17:21:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T21:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desperate-biden-camp-tries-to-regurgitate-failed-2016-race-hoax\/"},"modified":"2024-05-30T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-30T21:24:05","slug":"desperate-biden-camp-tries-to-regurgitate-failed-2016-race-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desperate-biden-camp-tries-to-regurgitate-failed-2016-race-hoax\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Campaign Desperately Recycles Old Race Hoax"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fdesperate-biden-camp-tries-to-regurgitate-failed-2016-race-hoax%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=2256016&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>President Joe Biden&#8217;s media allies are accused of \u200dreviving \u2064a debunked race hoax against former President Donald Trump to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-steps-up-recruitment-efforts-for-black-candidates-voters\/\" title=\"GOP Steps Up Recruitment Efforts For Black Candidates, Voters\">sway <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>. \u200bBill Pruitt, a \u2062producer for \u2062&#8221;The\u2063 Apprentice,&#8221; alleges Trump used racial\u2063 slurs, but\u200b without audio evidence. The Biden campaign responded, labeling Trump \u200ca racist, emphasizing the risk\u200d of losing black voter support to\u2064 him. Trump&#8217;s increasing favor among black voters poses a threat to \u200dBiden&#8217;s election prospects.  <\/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<div>\n<div>\n<figure>                         <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s media allies are so desperate to stop him from hemorrhaging black voters that they have resorted to regurgitating a race hoax against former President Donald Trump that also failed in 2016 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Bill Pruitt, who was a producer for \u201cThe Apprentice,\u201d published a piece in Slate alleging Trump used the N-word during the taping of the first season. Pruitt said he waited until now to share his claim because he was under a nondisclosure agreement that conveniently expired at the same time that Biden is flailing in the polls among black voters in particular.<\/p>\n<p>Pruitt\u2019s allegation was allegedly \u201ccaught on tape,\u201d yet <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2024\/05\/donald-trump-news-2024-trial-verdict-apprentice.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slate<\/a> doesn\u2019t provide any audio evidence. \u201cThose tapes, I\u2019ve come to believe, will never be found,\u201d Pruitt writes.<\/p>\n<p>Nor did <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2016\/10\/is-there-apprentice-footage-of-donald-trump-saying-the-n-word.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slate<\/a> provide any evidence in 2016 when they ran a piece entitled \u201cIs There Apprentice Footage Of Trump Saying the N-Word?\u201d that acknowledged the lack of evidence but justified spreading the hearsay claim by citing a former producer who posted on Twitter that he was \u201chearing\u201d about an instance involving the word but also noted that former Apprentice employees were subject to a $5 million \u201cleak fee.\u201d Slate concluded its hit piece by begging someone who is \u201ceager to leak the Apprentice tapes\u201d to \u201cplease write\u201d to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>No one ever leaked the tapes. No other outlet has been able to independently confirm the authenticity of the claims either.<\/p>\n<p>But just as there was no tangible evidence in 2018 when Omarosa Manigault Newman tried to promote her book by claiming she heard a tape of Trump using the slur, there is none now. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/05\/30\/politics\/trump-apprentice-producer-black-contestant\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN<\/a> also acknowledges they are also unable to confirm the existence of that tape as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[READNEXT:[READNEXT:<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/08\/black-voters-disillusionment-with-biden-could-help-trump-pull-off-a-2016-repeat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Black Voters\u2019 Disillusionment With Biden Could Help Trump Pull Off A 2016 Repeat<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s campaign <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BidenHQ\/status\/1796224077658509436\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">responded<\/a> in a statement calling Trump a \u201ctextbook racist who disrespects and attacks the Black community every chance he gets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s why Black voters kicked him out of the White House in 2020, and it\u2019s why they\u2019ll make him a loser a second time this November,\u201d the statement continued. <\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s campaign is well aware that their path to victory could be jeopardized by Trump\u2019s growing support from black voters. While only 12 percent of black voters align with the Democrat Party, 18 percent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2024\/05\/20\/an-early-look-at-black-voters-views-on-biden-trump-and-election-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> Pew they would vote for Trump or lean toward voting for Trump in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/global-britain-uk-seeks-carbon-border-tax-on-countries-that-dont-meet-climate-goals\/\" title=\"Global Britain? UK Seeks 'Carbon Border Tax' on Countries That Don't Meet Climate Goals\">poll earlier<\/a> this month. Meanwhile, a Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/politics\/elections\/trump-biden-poll-swing-states-ad594acb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> from March also found that across Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, Biden is winning roughly 68 percent of the black vote \u2014 a historically low number.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s waning support among a demographic that helped him secure his victory in 2020 is top of mind for his campaign, as made apparent Wednesday when Biden visited a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-2020-school-shutdowns-to-cost-economy-up-to-188-billion-per-year\/\" title=\"Report: 2020 School Shutdowns To Cost Economy Up To 8 Billion Per Year\">majority-black school<\/a> in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s team knows the president cannot misjudge his chances the way failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton did in 2016 when she lost by razor thin margins after millions of voters \u2014 including black voters \u2014 either sat out the race entirely or voted for Trump. <\/p>\n<p>Take, for example, what happened to Clinton in Wisconsin, where The New York Times <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/11\/21\/us\/many-in-milwaukee-neighborhood-didnt-vote-and-dont-regret-it.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">noted<\/a> \u201cClinton had assumed she would win.\u201d Trump won the state by just 27,000 votes after the state saw its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/black-voters-disillusionment-with-biden-could-help-trump-pull-off-a-2016-repeat\/\" title=\"Dissatisfaction Among Black Voters with Biden May Aid Trump in Repeating 2016 Victory\">lowest voter turnout<\/a> in 16 years. But it was Wisconsin\u2019s District 15 that saw the biggest decline in turnout in the state in 2016 when compared to 2012, the Times reported. The district is 84 percent black.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly to Clinton, Biden fails to inspire enthusiasm among voters \u2014 especially black voters. CJ Sampson, 31, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/02\/28\/1234145544\/2024-election-michigan-voters-disillusioned-biden-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NPR<\/a> that while he considers himself a liberal, Biden does not inspire confidence and that he\u2019s not sure if life is better under Biden than it was under Trump.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s media supporters anxiously attempt to prevent the loss of black voters by reviving a debunked race hoax against former President Donald Trump. The recycled accusation, previously unsuccessful in 2016 and 2018, resurfaces through a Slate article by Bill Pruitt, a former producer of &#8220;The Apprentice&#8221;, claiming Trump used racial slurs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2256017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-30-at-5.15.17%E2%80%AFPM.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2256016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Screenshot-2024-05-30-at-5.15.17%E2%80%AFPM.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256016","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2256016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2256016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2256017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2256016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2256016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2256016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}