Far-right conspiracy theorist and host Wayne Allyn Root told Roger Stone in a discussion Sunday that he thinks minority voters will ultimately come out more for Donald Trump if he's convicted of a crime.
"Well, I, I'm with you that Black votes are the key or minority votes are the key here — Black and Latino votes," Root told Stone. "And every time they indict him and if they convict him — God forbid, but you and I both know those juries and those judges are all biased and against us. If he's convicted before the election — which I'd say is probably almost a certainty. Now, in one of these cases — maybe more than one — I think Black voters who believe the system is rigged against them come to Trump even more."
He didn't fully explain why Black and Latino voters would like Trump better if he were convicted, but it is a campaign that has been promoted since Aug. 2023 by Fox commentators.
Axios reported in September that Trump's campaign thinks "he can make inroads with Black voters by pushing an I-am-a-victim-just-like-you storyline."
The site says that it is "unclear whether Trump's favorability with Black voters has increased beyond the 8 percent or so share he received in 2020. (Recent polls have suggested Trump's support among Blacks is improving, but pre-election polls in 2020 overstated his support)."
MSNBC.com commentator Ja'han Jones called the idea "desperate."
Writing in August, Jones explained, "The lie about Black folks being attracted to alleged criminality didn't die with Rush Limbaugh, you see. It lives on in the conservative movement — only now, they're framing this as a good thing instead of suggesting it could destroy the country."
"But if you don’t trust Black people’s intelligence to begin with — if you don’t believe in their ability to discern fact from fiction — it’s easy to assume that many of them would be fine voting for a criminally indicted hatemonger like Trump just because he’s been arrested," said Jones.
There's no actual evidence of the claim, both Axios and Jones explained.
Root suggested that Michelle Obama would be the candidate if Joe Biden dropped out. The former first lady has made it clear numerous times that she has no desire to be involved in politics again. There are several other political leaders of color in the Democratic Party than Michelle Obama.
See the comments from Root and Stone below or at the link here.
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