Black Men Rally for Kamala Harris, and Confront an Elephant in the Room

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : "Black male leaders rallying support for Harris said Trump only helped their effort during an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists.
59% : Harris' campaign advisers acknowledge that the Black men drawn to Trump see him as a projection of strength and that the former president is banking on their support once again.
57% : "I seem to be doing very well with Black males," Trump said in a news conference at the Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, last week.
39% : He also proclaimed himself "the best president for the Black population" since Abraham Lincoln.Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, said such moments would make it harder for Black men to explain to other Black people why they would vote for Trump over Harris.
37% : "An African American male has to talk in the community to African American women about why he would pick Trump over an African American woman," Morial said in an interview, adding that "my mama would run me out the house," if he said he was going to vote for Trump.
32% : "Trump and his allies have made the push for Black men by marketing gold sneakers to them, campaigning with rappers and claiming without evidence that those who cross the border are taking "Black jobs."
23% : Facing a panel of three Black women reporters, Trump falsely said that Harris, whose mother was Indian and whose father is Jamaican, had only recently decided to identify as Black for political purposes.
21% : Trump has gone so far to say that Black men would vote for him because they could relate to his recent convictions -- a claim Harris has called "insulting."

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