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applegrove

(128,464 posts) Thu Oct 2, 2025, 07:56 PM 8 hrs ago

Young and Black Voters Sour on Trump

Young and Black Voters Sour on Trump

October 2, 2025 at 6:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 87 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/10/02/young-and-black-voters-sour-on-trump/

“President Donald Trump’s surprising performance among Black Americans and younger voters helped him win the popular vote in the 2024 election. Those constituencies are still waiting for a return on their investment,” Politico reports.

“The unemployment rate for Americans between the ages of 16 and 24 has jumped to 10.5 percent from 9 percent since Trump returned to the White House, a period that coincided with a marked decline in their participation in the labor force. Black joblessness has also climbed, with federal workforce cuts and a broad slowdown in hiring contributing to the rise. And both groups saw their paychecks drop through the first half of the year, despite an acceleration in weekly earnings for workers overall.”

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Young and Black Voters Sour on Trump (Original Post) applegrove 8 hrs ago OP

Cast stupid votes, win stupid prizes synni 8 hrs ago #1

Idiots. n/t Coventina 8 hrs ago #2

So are members of the Numbnuts Bro-Brigade paying attention now? hatrack 8 hrs ago #3

They had four years and... skypilot 7 hrs ago #4

Thank you ananda 7 hrs ago #5

Let's be crystal clear about this because I'm sick to death of people invoking black people into this shit: Solomon 1 hr ago #7

... Celerity 7 hrs ago #6

synni

(570 posts)

1. Cast stupid votes, win stupid prizes

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:39 PM

8 hrs ago

Too bad the rest of us have to suffer, as well.

Coventina

(28,760 posts)

2. Idiots. n/t

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:43 PM

8 hrs ago

hatrack

(63,648 posts)

3. So are members of the Numbnuts Bro-Brigade paying attention now?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:50 PM

8 hrs ago

Nah, probably not . . . .

skypilot

(9,059 posts)

4. They had four years and...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 08:57 PM

7 hrs ago

...a pandemic to sour on him. I'm a black voter who saw all I needed to see before, during, and after his first term.

ananda

(33,454 posts)

5. Thank you

Reply to skypilot (Reply #4)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 09:13 PM

7 hrs ago

I'm at a total loss as to why they thought
Trump was someone they should vote for.

Solomon

(12,613 posts)

7. Let's be crystal clear about this because I'm sick to death of people invoking black people into this shit:

Reply to ananda (Reply #5)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 03:22 AM

1 hr ago

Black people are not responsible for Trump winning the presidency! I'm sick to death of this meme.. So the few blacks that did vote for him are the idiots, but all the other assholes who did and are really responsible are not? 80 percent of black people voted against trump.
Check the percentages of whites, Hispanics, etc. who voted for the asshole and stop acting like blacks are responsible because he got a few more votes from black people than he did before. That was not the margin of him winning by a long shot!

Celerity

(52,221 posts)

6. ...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Oct 2, 2025, 09:16 PM

7 hrs ago

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