South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Drew McKissick shrugged off former President Donald Trump’s recent comments about black voters, describing them as that of a “billionaire construction worker.”
McKissick appeared on MSNBC’s The Weekend on Saturday to respond to Trump’s claim that black voters like him “because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against, and they actually viewed me as being discriminated against.” Trump also claimed the black community “embraced” his mugshot “more than anybody else.”
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“Look, if at this point everybody doesn’t know the way Donald Trump speaks and has spoken since he came on the scene in ’15, then you know they haven’t been in this country very long,” McKissick said while chuckling. “Donald Trump is like a billionaire construction worker I mean, that’s the way he talks, and if we haven’t got used to that yet, and they’re not going to.”
Biden won South Carolina’s Democratic primary, the first in the nation, with 96% of votes. However, South Carolina’s black voter turnout was only 4%. Trump won the state’s Republican primary Saturday, and according to McKissick, Republican early voters beat Democratic voters by 75,000 votes before primary day.
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“The record we’ve had here in this primary was 765,000 that was in 2016,” McKissick said, “and I’m predicting today that we’re gonna beat that number.”
While Trump was in South Carolina on Friday when he made the comments, he spent part of Saturday in Washington, D.C., where he addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference. Trump’s GOP opponent, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, was notably left off Saturday’s agenda. She spent Saturday in her home state, where she accompanied her mother while she voted.
