Black men have been thrown in the middle of the debate on which voters like former President Donald Trump or Vice President Kamala Harris more. Despite the current narrative that Harris is falling short with Black male voters, the polls show something different.
A recent poll from Howard University’s Initiative on Public Opinion took a survey of 981 Black voters in the battleground states of Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The survey showed 84 percent of respondents were willing to cast their ballot on Vice President Harris while only eight percent were willing to vote for Trump. Of all the respondents, the poll showed 41 percent identified as male.
Another poll from The New York Times and Siena College found Trump was still a ways away from winning the Black vote. Their poll found that Harris lead the vote for Black registered voters by 78 percent and Black men under 45 years old by 69 percent. Further, a Pew Research survey from August found that Black male voters were 73 percent more likely to vote for Harris than Trump. Her favorability is even higher among Black voters than Biden’s with a 79-68 ratio, the poll shows.
All of the rhetoric about Black men favoring Trump more might just be propaganda, despite his self-assuring social media rants. Don’t get it twisted, though. The remaining percentage of Black 44-favoring voters are still out there.
“The attorney general has accountability for the entire state. I will never forgive Kamala for her record in the state. And that’s what she’s going to have to deal with: unforgiving Black men,” said Al Bartell, a Black man, to NBC News.
These poll results surfaced on the heels of Harris’ campaign launching an economic opportunity agenda for Black men in conjunction to her policies for the presidency. In the agenda, she looks to provide Black men with “tools to achieve financial freedom, lower costs to better provide for themselves and their families, and protect their rights.”
Though the sudden policy launch may seem suspicious to some voters, it seems unlikely her Black male opponents’ voting preferences will affect which candidate wins the Black majority vote.