P. Rae Easley, a Republican activist, leads the group Red Chicago in a city that is famous for powerful and corrupt Democrat leaders, and for voters – both living and dead – who support them.
In the 2020 election, Cook County officially chose Biden over Trump 74%-24%, a lopsided win for the Democrat that mirrored Hillary Clinton’s 74%-21% win four years earlier.
The state of Illinois, with 19 electoral votes, hasn’t picked a Republican presidential candidate since 1988, the first election of then-Vice President George Bush.
According to Easley, voters of all races have watched Biden prove to be an “utter failure” during his first term. Despite what the national media tells them, she says, those voters also know their lives were better during Trump’s one term.
“The people I see at the grocery store, the people I see at the gas station, the ladies that I talk to at the nail shop, everybody is going [for] Trump,” Easley tells AFN. “He's not the social faux pas anymore."
Sunny sour about polling
Easley’s anecdotal evidence of Trump support mirrors polls that suggest black voters have soured on President Biden, according to a Fox News story. That story also describes how “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin, and Sen. James Clyburn, are publicly mocking polling that shows a major shift among black voters.
One of the polls they dismissed is a USA Today/Suffolk poll done in Michigan. It shows black voters have jumped from 9% supporting Trump in 2020 to 15% in the poll released two weeks.
Michigan, with 16 electoral votes, is a key battleground state for both candidates on election night. It officially went for Biden 50%-47% in 2020, a difference of approximately 154,100 votes, after Trump beat Clinton there by approximately 10,700 votes.
Hostin, known for making outlandish racial comments, reacted to the polls by mocking the idea "black Republicans" exist. She compared finding them to seeing a unicorn.
Citing a poll by Pew Research, co-host Sara Haines pushed back and pointed out it shows Biden's support had dropped from 92% to 77%.
CNN sends a warning, too
The Fox News story also points out a CNN reporter, Harry Enten, told his news network black support for Trump could be “historic” if the polls are accurate.
Biden’s support has dropped from 86% in 2020 to 70%, Enten said, while Trump’s support has gone from single digits, 7%, to double digits at 21%.
Enten’s data-based analysis was dismissed on the air by a black Democrat, Bakari Sellar. She mocked it as “hyperventilating” over unrealistic predictions.
“Donald Trump is not going to get 20% of the black vote. He’s simply not,” she said.
Easley, whose support for Trump was praised by him in April in a social media post, predicts the former president will get “at least” 40% of the black vote in November.
"We do not want Joe Biden as our president. We can see the decline in our quality of life since he's been in office,” she tells AFN. “We can see the fact that he has an open border that has now literally allowed rapists to come onto our streets and now our children can't play outside. People who pay bills do not want Joe Biden. People who have children do not want Joe Biden. You would have to be crazy to want four more years of this chaos."
