Rapper 50 Cent said black voters feel a growing sense of solidarity with Donald Trump after the former president’s unprecedented conviction last week.
On Wednesday, reporters asked 50 Cent about the significance of black male voters this election cycle.
“I see them identifying with Trump,” the rapper responded, because “they got RICO charges.”
Last month, an ABC News-Ipsos poll showed support for President Joe Biden among black people down 13%. A poll in April showed that 30% of black males in seven swing states were more inclined to support Trump in November, up from 12% in 2020.
The Trump campaign has labeled Biden as “an outright racist,” referencing comments the president made in 1977, saying he had fears about his children growing up in a “racial jungle.”
Meanwhile, Biden is scrambling to engage with black voters, with Vice President Kamala Harris claiming, “Any suggestion and inference that we’ve got any voter in our back pocket and therefore should be able to count on their vote without earning it, I think is misinformed.”
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During his comments to the press, 50 Cent said he had not decided yet about supporting Trump. However, the rapper, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, has stepped up his criticism of Biden in recent months.
50 Cent was in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday to lobby Capitol Hill lawmakers. As he seeks to grow a minority presence in the alcohol industry, the rapper met with Reps. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) and Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and civil rights attorney Ben Crump.
