CNN, a media organization former President Donald Trump has long derided, is conceding the presumptive GOP nominee’s likely “historic performance” with black voters.
On Monday, CNN senior political data reporter Harry Enten called attention to substantial inroads the Trump campaign has made in the black community.
“In 2020, Joe Biden was getting 86% of the African American vote. Look at where it is now: It’s 70%,” Enten said.
He contrasted President Joe Biden’s decline with Trump’s rise in popularity with black voters. Trump went from “7%, single digits at this point in 2020, to now 21% [in 2024],” Enten commented.
“I keep looking for signs this is going to go back to normal, and I don’t see it yet in the polling,” he added. “If anything, right now, we’re careening toward a historic performance for Republican presidential candidates, the likes of which we have not seen in six decades.”
Black voters were largely and firmly rooted in the Republican Party until 1936, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal reforms won the majority of black voters for the Democratic Party.
The promising statistics for Republicans come as the Trump campaign escalates its efforts to bring black voters into the GOP.
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Ahead of Juneteenth, Trump held a rally in Detroit, Michigan, a Democratic stronghold in a state that has gone blue every presidential election since 1992 — except for 2016. He also spoke at a black church in downtown Detroit while clinching an endorsement from former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.
The Detroit visit follows Trump’s outreach into deep-blue areas filled with minority voters. In May, he held a rally in the Bronx, a traditional Democratic stronghold, addressing crowds in a largely Hispanic and black-led district that voted overwhelmingly for Biden in 2020. In April, he targeted Atlanta during a Chick-fil-A visit in a heavily black district that voted for Biden in 2020.
