Trump WAS a rebound from Obama/Biden….
Now?
The rebound is growing with Hispanics and Blacks AGAINST Donald Trump…..
Is there a ‘silent’ Black vote pushing the Democratic wave, especially in the South?
The “Blacklash” has arrived.
The first hint appeared in the 2025 elections, when Democrats won larger-than-expected margins in Virginia and New Jersey. Then, beginning early this year, the turnout numbers in primaries were unmistakable. And now, the story is blaring in neon as early and absentee votes soar.
Black voters are fired up, ready to go and poised to turn a good night on Tuesday for Democrats into a Blue Tsunami.
Their motivation can be traced to President Donald Trump’s return to power and then back-to-back events: the White House-led effort to dilute minority-heavy districts to elect more Republicans and the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act.
“Trump has tried to neuter them,” former President Bill Clinton told me about Black voters. “You know, he did all that reapportionment, which really infuriated them. And everybody knows that he’s turned the Justice Department into a political operation, not a justice operation.”
As Clinton explained, there’s something else at play — an unmistakable and all-too-familiar whiff in the air.
“Historically discriminated against groups have an uncanny feel detector to them,” as he put it….
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The biggest driver, for Black people and everybody else, is of course the cost of living. Gas and groceries are the same forbidding price for every voter.
Yet the policies making life less affordable can feel targeted at Black Americans, especially in working-class communities.
“The current government has attacked almost every income stream that this community has to survive,” said Eddie Boykin, citing health care cuts and the sting of inflation caused by Trump’s tariffs and the Iran war. Boykin, an Air Force veteran who pastors a Black church in Lancaster, South Carolina, said he sees the strain among his flock: “It’s money — they’re hurting.” There is something deeper going on, though. I began to glimpse it when I visited a Black church with David Jolly, the Florida Democrat running for governor, at the start of the month. And I’ve seen it in every state since: angry but energized Black voters — many surprisingly young — showing up at events.
It’s a shift from 2024, when Trump roughly doubled his share of young Black men. But now, with Trump in office, many of the Black voters I met were voicing frustration with the Republicans in power….
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Black folks are fed up.”…
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By casting far more ballots than expected by strategists in either party, Black voters are fundamentally shifting the midterm landscape, nudging swing states left and making red states suddenly competitive…
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