Barack Obama criticizes Black men for their lack of support in Kamala Harris presidential run, urging them to abandon excuses and support her candidacy.
Obama’s triple Diss to Kamala Harris camp’s lack of ‘energy’, Black men opposing ‘a woman as president’ and Trump…
While campaigning for Kamala Harris in PA, Obama went on a blasting spree against black men, labeling them for producing ‘excuses’ and not feeling the idea of having a woman as president.
Former President Barack Obama stepped into a ‘Black Voters for Harris’ event in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Thursday, October 10 ahead of a rally for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
While speaking before the audience, the 63-year-old influential Democrat accused the incumbent vice president’s campaign of not as hot as he was when he ran for White House.
We haven’t yet seen the same kind of energy and turnout in all corners of our neighborhoods and communities as we did when I was running, Obama said.
He didn’t quite have a bone to pick with Kamala Harris but words to throw at Black men in the audience.
There’s also that it appears to be more prominent with the brothers, he added. The president had a problem with them, just because they were coming up with all sorts of reasons and excuses. He said he was really not enthusiastic about Kamala Harris’ candidacy.
He asked if there was any underlying rationale for the act, that whether it was like the Democratic presidential candidate is a woman, and slashing out those ideas, he said no matter what they thought about that, it was “not acceptable” for Black men to be supporting Donald Trump.
And some of it makes me think, well you simply aren’t having a woman president and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that, he continued.
This was what Obama said in a speech yesterday while claiming that the race has been neck and neck while implying victory for his candidate, as Kamala Harris’ Republican rival led the state by two points as he had gained momentum “with his numbers among independent, senior and African American voters increasing or holding steady.”
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A pollster said African American voters’ support for Kamala Harris had somewhat eroded even as the race has remained close.
One in four Black men under 50 are behind Trump, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People estimated after conducting a survey last month.
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US News Forum reports that the polls are showing far larger percentages of Black voters are supporting him now than were in 2020.
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On the flip side, Texas Rep. Wesley Hunt, an acknowledged leader of GOP’s Black outreach said earlier that he wasn’t as confident about Black women in Trump’s case, given their affinity to Harris.
With the selection of Kamala Harris, I am less sure about black women versus President Trump because, quite frankly, that specific demographic bases their voting more predicated on identity, said he to the outlet .
Kamala Harris is a black woman, and that’s a tough demographic for us to get, he said to the outlet.
And yet when it comes to the male voting forces for their ex-POTUS, he has no qualms, proclaiming, “he will have the highest black male vote in the history of any Republican president in modern history.”
Obama disses Trump too.
And meanwhile, Obama was slamming men who could be making themselves feel tougher by thinking Harris is the weaker candidate for president.
“You are so thinking about sitting out or supporting somebody who has a history of degrading you because you think that is a sign of strength because that’s what being a man is? Trashing women? That’s unacceptable.
He also mentioned that Trump used to be a pull-and-put-down man, which is a bad behavior and most people thought that was a sign of strength.
I’m here to tell you this is now what real strength is,” he told the audience.
He predicted inflation will stick around as an intensely unpopular issue in a Harris-Biden administration partly because of the COVID-19 pandemic, telling Obama he knows why people are frustrated and “looking to shake things up.”.
“I get people wanting change, feeling like we can do better…What I cannot understand is what anybody would believe Donald Trump would shake things up in a way that’s going to be good for you, Pennsylvania.”
He finally received his third diss directed to Trump as he compared him to the recently deceased Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
“You’ve got the all-cap tweeting, the ranting and raving about crackpot conspiracy theory, the two-hour speeches word salad-it’s like Fidel Castro, just on and on,” he said.