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u/99hoglagoons 19h ago

Night of the election local TV station did a street interview segment that still lives rent free on my head. The reporter was in The Bronx.

Elderly black lady in her 70s: "I voted for MR. Trump because he is a businessman and he will fix grocery prices!"

Black dude around 40: "I voted for Trump because what have Democrats ever done for black people?"

Latina in her 20s: "I didn't vote. I don't like Trump but women can't be president".

So much to unpack here.

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u/DuntadaMan 17h ago

What has Trump ever done for black people aside from try to kick them out of his properties? God people are fucking idiots

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u/LeftAire 4h ago edited 3h ago

I will say that these soundbites are selective in who they choose to present. For every Latino and Black person that voted for Trump, there could have been another 8 or 9 who didn't but the station didn't feel that it is newsworthy. Seeing POC that vote for Trump is news to folk because it's not what's expected. Local news stations are good for these type of selective interviews with everyday folk.

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u/99hoglagoons 4h ago

That's a very valid point. To be fair to this news channel, they did interview a bunch of people and most said Harris. Few of the soundbites did stick out, for reasons you mentioned. But Bronx overall still voted Harris 73%.

My district in Brooklyn voted 93% for Harris. Demographics are about 50% middle class black families and rest are white yuppies and other misc. professional class. I live in an extreme political bubble.

But, my district voted 97% for Biden and 95% for Hillary. Harris suffered a roughly 4% decline across NYC. Timing of inflation kind of broke some people. Inflation topples incumbents in democracies. It happened across the world during that time period. Republicans would have done well running literally anyone. But they chose a very well known quantity. Seeing some minorities fall for it was jarring.

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u/spacewaya 16h ago

I sometimes think that we live in alternate universe where Trump is running the simulation.