In a CNN panel with notorious radio host Charlamagne led by guest host Pamela Brown, journalist Angela Rye insisted that polls showing increased support for President Trump among black voters were fabricated because she didn't personally know any black people planning on voting for him.
Brown asked, “Those battleground polls also show Donald Trump pulling in 19% support from black voters — that is actually triple what he got in 2020. What do you make of that? What is he doing right to win them over?”
Rye responded, “I don't make anything of these polls that are talking to imaginary black folks. I would love to know, for one, who they're talking to. Because I have not seen them.”
Brown interjected, “So you think that they don't exist?”
“They might be the invisible man that Ralph Ellison talked about in his book. I don't know who these people are.”
Rye went on to imply that because a Trump campaign political ad targeting black women used a script, that the people featured in the ads were paid actors and not genuine supporters even though scripted ads are the norm in both major political parties.
“I don't know who these people are. There was a Trump ad that was released, I believe today, that's targeting black women voters. And there are these people who allegedly exist all throughout the country, and they're reading scripts. You can see their eye-line going over here. And I think some of them might be paid to say some of these things. I'm not sure.”
Rye continued.
“I'm not giving any credit to these polls. Polls end up being wrong all the time and I've seen polls that say 15%, 19%, 18% of black folks. I don't believe it at all. I really don't.”
While her personal network may not reflect polling, there is no evidence that suggests these shifts in attitudes have been fabricated.
In a CNN panel earlier in the month discussed the trend, and the serious threat it posed to the Harris campaign.
The Daily Caller reports:
Trump secured the backing of 17% of black voters in a CBS poll published on Sunday, a significant increase from the 12% he received in a 2020 CNN exit poll and nearly identical to the support he got in a CBS poll released Aug. 4. CNN host Brianna Keilar and the network's senior political commentators David Urban and Van Jones said it is a significant issue for Harris to lose black and Hispanic voters to Trump and that the vice president needs to ensure she maintains them if she wants to win the election.
Urban explained, “Kamala Harris has got a big, big problem, right?…Donald Trump has a great deal of support from African American men…And so they've got a lot of work to do…The folks who are in the middle class feel a pinch on the economy, on immigration, in their communities. It's going to be a real race. Look, nobody thinks it's going to be easy, it's going to be down to a few votes in all these states and all these counties. That's why it's important.”
Jones contended, “She's got work to do clawing back some of these young black men who want to hear that, ‘I want you to be successful economically, to be a business owner, to be an entrepreneur.' It can't all be government programs. That's not landing well with these young black men. When they hear ‘opportunity,' they mean do you mean ‘charity?' They want to be owners, they want to be builders. If she speaks to them in that way, and listens to them on that point, she can get 'em back, but right now she's got work to do.”
The Daily caller continued:
Trump secures 21% of the black vote in a six-way race against Harris, independent presidential candidates Cornel West and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein and Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver, with the former president's share rising to 26% when the race is narrowed to only him and the vice president, according to a recent Fox News poll. The results are consistent with a June Fox News poll of the matchup between Trump and President Joe Biden.
Prove it ???
Rye should remove her head from her rectum, take a deep breath, look around and see the real world once.