Trump Will Get Over 20 Percent of the Black Vote: Jack Brewer

Published: 12/24/2019, 5:27:08 PM EST

Former NFL star Jack Brewer said an "awakening" is going on among black voters and that Trump will win at least 20 percent of black voters, according to the Washington Times.

“There is an awakening going on right now in the country,” Brewer said of black voters who typically vote in favor of the Democrats. “I’m going to take the guy who’s actually putting in the policies that are going to make life better for my young black son and my young black daughter, versus somebody who gives me lip service—like, unfortunately, the Democrats have done for our community for years,” the newspaper reported.

Trump's accomplishments have benefitted the black community greatly, with an unemployment rate among blacks of 5.5 percent, a historic low. Sooner or later, these accomplishments will pay off, Trump's campaign strategists expect.

Guests cheer for President Donald Trump as he arrives at an event for the Young Black Leadership Summit in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Oct. 4, 2019. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) — Guests cheer for President Donald Trump as he arrives at an event for the Young Black Leadership Summit in the East Room of the White House in Washington, on Oct. 4, 2019. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

“Donald Trump will get over 20 percent of the black vote,” Brewer said, according to the Daily Wire. “That is what’s going to win the election. Why? Because there hasn’t been a Republican to even try to go in and talk to the black community. They don’t go there. They don’t even try. I think he’s trying, finally,” Brewer said.

Trump garnered only 8 percent of the black vote in 2016, but has since made considerable progress in wooing black voters.

Three recent polls showed that Trump's approval among black voters hovers at around 30 to 35 percent, a percentage no Republican candidate had ever approached.

“If you look at how they attacked him for being a racist during the [2016] campaign, I think his policies have [produced] results for the black community that have been extraordinary,” a senior campaign official told the Washington Times.

Trump Campaign Launches Coalition ‘Black Voices for Trump’

President Donald Trump launched the Black Voters' Coalition in Atlanta, Georgia, on Nov. 8.

He spoke at the launch of a new “Black Voices for Trump” outreach initiative dedicated to “recruiting and activating Black Americans in support of President Trump."

“The Democrats have let you down,” Trump told the crowd of several hundred supporters, including several who wore red “BLACK LIVES MAGA” hats. “They’ve dismissed you. They’ve hurt you. They’ve sabotaged you for far too long.”

During his remarks, Trump pointed to the passage of bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation, which Trump signed into law last year, along with his ongoing support for opportunity zones in urban areas and new investments in historically black colleges.

Darrell Scott, a black Ohio pastor and a longtime supporter of the president who is co-chair of the new coalition and spoke at Friday’s event, said that in 2015 and 2016, supporters trying to sell Trump to black voters could only point forward to things they anticipated from Trump.

“Now that it’s 2020, we’re able to point backwards and to some very definitive accomplishments that the president has done,” Scott said. “He delivered on promises he didn’t even make.”

Epoch Times web staff and the Associated Press contributed to this report.