{"id":640536,"date":"2021-08-13T11:20:33","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=640536"},"modified":"2021-08-13T11:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T15:20:40","slug":"fact-check-did-charles-barkley-say-poor-people-have-been-voting-democrat-for-50-years-and-theyre-still-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-charles-barkley-say-poor-people-have-been-voting-democrat-for-50-years-and-theyre-still-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Charles Barkley Say \u2018Poor People Have Been Voting Democrat For 50 Years And They\u2019re Still Poor\u2019?"},"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\">38<\/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%2Ffact-check-did-charles-barkley-say-poor-people-have-been-voting-democrat-for-50-years-and-theyre-still-poor%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=640536&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>A post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=353299996429795&amp;set=a.100128908413573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims former NBA player Charles Barkley said \u201cpoor people have been voting Democrat for 50 years\u2026 and they\u2019re still poor.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7260149\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7260149\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7260149\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-10.45.52-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook\/Screenshot\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-10.45.52-AM.jpg 1072w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-10.45.52-AM-127x120.jpg 127w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-10.45.52-AM-620x588-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-10.45.52-AM-768x728-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-10.45.52-AM-1536x1455-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-13-at-10.45.52-AM-2048x1941-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1072px) 100vw, 1072px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7260149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook\/Screenshot<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: Misleading<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While Barkley said the last part of the quote, his exact quote was \u201cBlack people have been voting Democrat their whole lives, and they\u2019re still poor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Facebook post includes a photo of Basketball Hall of Fame inductee Barkley, along with a quote he allegedly said about how poor people have voted Democrat for decades, but are still poor.<\/p>\n<p>While Barkley didn\u2019t say the exact quote, he did say something similar years ago. In an August 2015 interview on the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/C4pDSRWfm-c\">Dan Patrick Show<\/a>, Barkley was asked his thoughts on the 2016 presidential election and voting Republican. <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2018\/08\/17\/fact-check-black-support-trump-double\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Fact Check: Did Black Support For Trump Double In One Year?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither one of these parties is doing a thing for poor people,\u201d Barkley <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/C4pDSRWfm-c\">said<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019re both full of it. You know black people have been voting Democratic their whole life and they\u2019re still poor. And the Republicans don\u2019t do anything for poor people, either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An internet search turned up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=charles+barkley+poor+people+have+been+voting+Democrat+for+50+years+and+they%27re+still+poor.&amp;sxsrf=ALeKk015Yd3mkGW2Tc_mKS7pqQYl7oi7jA:1628700666223&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=nws&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjAzp7ltqnyAhUZCM0KHUtXC_kQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&amp;biw=1279&amp;bih=617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">no record<\/a> of Barkley making the exact comment the post claims. Barkley does not appear to have verified social media accounts where he would have made the comment, \u201cPoor people have been voting Democrat for 50 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Black voters have consistently supported Democratic candidates for the past 40 years, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/2020\/09\/23\/the-changing-racial-and-ethnic-composition-of-the-u-s-electorate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pew Research Center<\/a>, with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2020\/10\/21\/key-facts-about-black-eligible-voters-in-2020-battleground-states\/ft_2020-10-21_blackvoters_01a\/\">83 percent<\/a>&nbsp;of black registered voters leaning toward or identifying as Democrat in 2018 and 2019. Republican candidates for president have not received more than 15 percent of the black vote since 1976,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/theapothecary\/2020\/11\/09\/no-trump-didnt-win-the-largest-share-of-non-white-voters-of-any-republican-in-60-years\/?sh=756ad61b4a09\">Forbes<\/a>&nbsp;reported.<\/p>\n<p>The poverty rate for black Americans was 20.8 percent in 2018 and 18.8 percent in 2019, data from the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2020\/09\/poverty-rates-for-blacks-and-hispanics-reached-historic-lows-in-2019.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Census Bureau<\/a>&nbsp;shows. Exit polls from the 2020 presidential election published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/03\/us\/elections\/exit-polls-president.html\">The New York Times<\/a> show 35 percent of voters surveyed had a total family income of less than $50,000 in 2019. Of those, 55 percent voted for President Joe Biden while 44 percent voted for former President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A post shared on Facebook claims former NBA player Charles Barkley said \u201cpoor people have been voting Democrat for 50 years\u2026 and they\u2019re still poor.\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-640536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640536","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=640536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}