{"id":2356640,"date":"2024-10-18T10:48:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-panics-about-kamala-on-cnn-says-he-corrected-black-men-who-said-they-want-trump-back\/"},"modified":"2024-10-18T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T14:49:42","slug":"don-lemon-panics-about-kamala-on-cnn-says-he-corrected-black-men-who-said-they-want-trump-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/don-lemon-panics-about-kamala-on-cnn-says-he-corrected-black-men-who-said-they-want-trump-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Don Lemon Panics About Kamala on CNN, Says He &#8216;Corrected&#8217; Black Men Who Said They Want Trump Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/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%2Fdon-lemon-panics-about-kamala-on-cnn-says-he-corrected-black-men-who-said-they-want-trump-back%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=2356640&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>Don Lemon recently made an appearance \u200con \u2062CNN where he discussed his outreach \u2064efforts to black male voters potentially considering Donald Trump over Kamala Harris. During the segment on &#8220;Inside Politics With Dana Bash,&#8221; \u200cLemon highlighted that he visited swing states to\u2063 talk to voters directly. He noted\u2064 that \u2064many expressed their intention to\u200c vote for Trump, often \u2063citing economic\u2064 reasons and his provision \u200bof stimulus checks. Lemon\u200b corrected their misconceptions by explaining that \u200cthe checks were facilitated \u200dby \u200da Democratic Congress and that Trump&#8217;s role was minimal.<\/p>\n<p>Lemon implied that \u200dthe voters were misinformed about\u200b their reasons for\u200d supporting Trump and emphasized the importance of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-poisoned-the-world-why-is-chinese-covid-propaganda-allowed-on-twitter\/\" title=\"\u2018U.S. Poisoned The World\u2019: Why Is Chinese COVID Propaganda Allowed On Twitter?\">making informed decisions<\/a>. In the backdrop, polls indicate\u2064 a troubling decline in \u200csupport for Harris \u200damong <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-fight-republicans-surge-with-minority-voters-with-35-million-splash\/\" title=\"Democrats counter Republicans&#039; minority voter surge with M blitz\">black voters compared<\/a> to previous elections, attributed to a growing perception \u200bthat Democrats \u200dhave not met their promises.<\/p>\n<p>Critics of \u200dLemon&#8217;s approach argue that his attempts \u2064to &#8220;correct&#8221; voters could come across as condescending \u2062and that his \u200banecdotal experiences do not \u2062reflect the broader sentiment within minority communities, who are \u200dincreasingly\u2063 wary \u2062of the Democratic Party&#8217;s reliability. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-economic-adviser-tries-and-fails-to-explain-monetary-policy-some-of-the-language-and-concepts-are-just-confusing\/\" title=\"Biden Economic Adviser Struggles with Explaining Monetary Policy - &#039;Complex Language and Concepts Are a Challenge\">commentary raises questions<\/a>\u2062 about the effectiveness of such \u200coutreach efforts in light of \u2063the changing\u200d political landscape and the growing engagement \u200bof\u2063 black voters\u2064 with Republican candidates.  <\/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><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> <script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Don Lemon was back on CNN Tuesday &mdash; and if you ever wonder what got him dismissed from the network in the first place, he certainly wasn&rsquo;t reticent about reminding you.<\/p>\n<p>In an appearance on &ldquo;Inside Politics With Dana Bash,&rdquo; Lemon rehashed a low-rent version of former President Barack Obama lecturing &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/obama-goes-attack-black-brothers-arent-sure-kamala\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the brothers<\/a>&rdquo; about not voting for the Democratic nominee, saying that he&rsquo;s been traveling to swing states to &ldquo;correct&rdquo; black men who might be considering Donald Trump instead of Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>The appearance comes as Harris lags in the polls among minority voters in general, men in particular.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s a problem, and look, I went from battleground state to battleground state to battleground state,&rdquo; Lemon said during the segment.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When they invited me to the convention, I didn&rsquo;t just want to fly there. I said I&rsquo;m gonna go talk to voters in battleground states, and I did.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It was not curated. I went up to people just doing man on the street and said, &lsquo;Who are you gonna vote for, black men?&rsquo; And time after time after time they said, &lsquo;I&rsquo;m voting for Donald Trump.&rsquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Now the reasons why, most of the time they said, &lsquo;Oh, for economic reasons&rsquo; or because &lsquo;he gave me a stimulus check.&rsquo; And I had to correct them over and over and tell them that stimulus check came from a Democratic Congress and Nancy Pelosi and that Donald Trump actually held that check up, so his name could be put on the check, so they think they got the check directly from him,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/don-lemon-slammed-attention-starved-wildly-inappropriate-mockery-melania-trumps-assassination-fears\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lemon said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Meanwhile, Joe Biden has given one or two stimulus checks, as well, but they seem to not know or understand that,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You can vote for whoever you want to vote for, but the reasons that you&rsquo;re going to vote for them, I think, should be accurate and factual, and you should know why you&rsquo;re supporting someone.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">NEW: Don Lemon says he traveled to swing states to &ldquo;correct&rdquo; black men, implies they are ignorant for wanting to vote for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>During a segment on CNN, Lemon talked down on black men who wanted to vote for Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I went up to people just doing man on the street and said,&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8vL4YhAZiB\">pic.twitter.com\/8vL4YhAZiB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CollinRugg\/status\/1846584472742830531?\">October 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First, you may have heard the old saying about the plural of &ldquo;anecdote&rdquo; not being &ldquo;data.&rdquo; It might also be rewarding for CNN to note to viewers that the&nbsp;<em>singular<\/em> form of &ldquo;anecdote&rdquo; isn&rsquo;t &ldquo;data,&rdquo; either. In this case, Lemon&rsquo;s experience isn&rsquo;t backed up by minority voters who haven&rsquo;t had the scales fall from their eyes like Paul on the Damascene road yet. They certainly haven&rsquo;t had a shortage of media voices shouting it at them, least of all on CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Second, if having a former president blacksplain why you&rsquo;re not voting the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/black-men-respond-obamas-scolding-double-support-donald-trump-got-dad-know-aint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">correct way to you isn&rsquo;t condescending enough<\/a>, how about having a fired former cable news host who&rsquo;s foundered on social media explain it to you?<\/p>\n<p>Because that&rsquo;s apparently what the liberal establishment is hoping for here &hellip; with Don Lemon.<\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/10\/12\/us\/politics\/poll-black-voters-harris-trump.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a> poll released last Saturday found that Harris was ahead among black voters by 78 percent to 15 percent for Donald Trump. While that looks OK, keep in mind that this was a relative low compared to the estimates that showed the Democratic presidential candidate getting north of 90 percent of the vote in 2016 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Ms. Harris is no doubt on track to win an overwhelming majority of black voters, but Mr. Trump appears to be chipping away broadly at a longstanding Democratic advantage. His campaign has relied on targeted advertising and sporadic outreach events to court African American voters &mdash; especially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/carville-calls-for-voters-to-pay-attention-to-trumps-campaign-promises-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Carville calls for voters to \u2018pay attention\u2019 to Trump\u2019s campaign promises - Washington Examiner\">black men &#038;mdash<\/a>; and has seen an uptick in support. About 15 percent of black likely voters said they planned to vote for the former president, according to the new poll, a six-point increase from four years ago,&rdquo; the Times noted.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Much of the erosion in support for Ms. Harris is driven by a growing belief that Democrats, who have long celebrated black voters as the &lsquo;backbone&rsquo; of their party, have failed to deliver on their promises,&rdquo; the poll showed.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Forty percent of African American voters under 30 said the Republican Party was more likely to follow through on its campaign commitments than Democrats were.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>But Don Lemon coming into the community to read &ldquo;the brothers&rdquo; the riot act, just like President Obama did, is going to help? That was from an actual office holder, not a kinda-employed anchorman who once entertained thoughts on air that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-huge-update-ten-years-disappearance-mh370-families-overjoyed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Malaysia Airlines Flight 370<\/a> might have disappeared into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZpVd7k1Uw6A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">black hole<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is the exact opposite of the real problem that Democrats face: After too long of taking their vote for granted, minority communities are starting to wake up to just how empty the party&rsquo;s promises are and are making up their own minds. With a few weeks to go, the thought that a talking-to by the guy who got <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/don-lemon-offered-job-fast-food-restaurant-chain-just-send-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">himself fired from CNN&rsquo;s morning show<\/a> is going to help matters much is part of the problem itself.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\">  <\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> <label>* Name<\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> <\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> <label>* <\/label> <br \/> <input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> <\/div>\n<p> <label>* Message<\/label> <br \/> <textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\">  <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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During his appearance on &#8220;Inside Politics With Dana Bash,&#8221; he echoed a less sophisticated version of former President Barack Obama&#8217;s message to Black voters about supporting the Democratic nominee. Lemon mentioned that he has been visiting swing states to &#8220;correct&#8221; Black men who might consider voting for Donald Trump instead of Kamala Harris, especially as Harris struggles with minority voter support. He shared that while engaging with voters in these states, many expressed their intention to vote for Trump primarily for economic reasons or because they received stimulus checks, which Lemon clarified were issued by a Democratic Congress and not directly from Trump. He emphasized the importance of understanding the facts behind their voting choices. Despite some polls showing Harris leading among Black voters, there is growing discontent within this demographic regarding the Democratic Party&#8217;s fulfillment of promises, particularly among younger voters who feel Republicans may be more reliable in delivering on commitments<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2356641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Don-Lemon.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[9373,36966,32438],"class_list":["post-2356640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cnn","tag-don-lemon","tag-kamala-harris"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Don-Lemon.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356640","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2356640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2356640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2356641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2356640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2356640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2356640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}