RNC’s First Black Chair Busts Trump’s Claim About Black Voters

Michael Steele, who was the primary Black chair of the Republican National Committee, took Donald Trump to job over his extensively condemned feedback at a Black Conservative Federation gala on the weekend.

Four-times-indicted Trump throughout his speech urged individuals favored him as a result of they empathized with the authorized woes he faces.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Steele expressed doubt the Republican 2024 front-runner may persuade Black voters to again him.

“With Trump, there is nothing there substantively because of his own history that would tell me that I would have something to gain with him,” he stated. “That’s been proven time and time again as you listen to him talk to Black people as if they’re not there.”

Steele continued, “When I hear him say ‘the Black people,’ it reminds me of some 1950s redneck who is referring to them, ‘other,’ even though they’re in the room.”

Steele led the RNC from 2009 till 2011. He is now a vocal critic of Trump and backed President Joe Biden within the 2020 election.

Trump’s narrative is that “he thinks so little of the Black community that he [believes he] can get our vote with giving us greater access to menthol cigarettes and a nice pair of gold lamé sneakers,” Steele defined.

But as a substitute, the present GOP was simply indulging in “pandering BS” to the Black group, he added.

“Nothing about health disparities in Black neighborhoods. Nothing about the education disparities in Black neighborhoods,” Steele famous. “Nothing about the mortality rate among Black women and babies. Nothing about fair housing.”