Senator Raphael Warnock Urges Black Men to Consider This Trump Chapter Before Voting

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) urged Black people and particularly Black men to “consider” Donald Trump’s role in the case of the exonerated Central Park Five before voting for him in an urgent call to action on Sunday.

“Black men know from watching him deal with his own criminal problems and concerns that the criminal justice system certainly doesn’t treat them the same way it treats him,” the Georgia senator said in an interview with Dana Bash of CNN.

Warnock reacted to a recent poll from The New York Times that shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading Trump with the support of 78% of likely black voters.

Bash noted that the vice president’s number is more than 10 percentage points behind how President Joe Biden is estimated to have performed with Black voters in the 2020 election, based on exit polls and post-election assessments. .

“So 1 in 5 black men say they support Donald Trump. Why do you think this happens? she asked Warnock.

Warnock said black men will not vote for Trump “in significant numbers” before adding that some of them will vote for him because “we are not a monolith.”

He then referred to the former president taking out full-page newspaper ads calling for the death penalty for “criminals of all ages” ahead of the trial of five black and brown teenagers who were wrongfully convicted in the 1989 Manhattan rape case. , involving a white woman.

“And then, when it was proven that the Exonerated Five, the Central Park Five, were actually innocent, Donald Trump showed no concern for what they went through, not one bit of regret for it,” Warnock said.

“He doubled down. That’s how he is,” he added.

Warnock later pitted Harris against Trump, adding that she found ways to give people “a path to a better life” in her career as a prosecutor.

“(She) has spent her entire life as a lawyer, as a senator and now as vice president, centering the concerns of ordinary people,” he said.

“Again, we are not a monolith, but this idea that large numbers of black men are going to vote for Donald Trump is not going to happen.”

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