Turns out that likely Democratic presidential nominee Joseph R. Biden’s controversial assertion — which he has since walked back — that black voters who cast their ballot for President Trump “ain’t black” is spot on for more than a quarter of black voters.
A Rasmussen Reports poll found that 27% of likely black voters agree with Mr. Biden that “a black voter who chooses Donald Trump over Biden is not really black.”
Closing out an interview last week with the popular “Breakfast Club” radio show with host Charlamagne tha God, Mr. Biden ignited a controversy when he told his on-the-fence host that “If you have a problem figuring out whether you are for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
Mr. Trump and his allies have since turned Mr. Biden’s words against him, saying they exposed how he takes black voters’ support for granted — who fueled his rise as the presumed Democratic presidential nominee.
“Black liberals want you to believe that Joe Biden has always been a friend to African Americans — at least the clean and articulate ones,” Trump campaign spokesperson Katrina Pierson said in a Black Voices for Trump virtual event over the weekend, alluding to a phrase with which Mr. Biden once praised then-Sen.
