Texas Democrat Jasmine Crockett has explained why Black men “did not vote” for former Vice President Kamala Harris. Rep. Crockett appeared on a podcast with former NBC’s Meet the Press host Chuck Todd, where she reflected on why Kamala performed worse among Black male voters than Biden in 2020.
While most Black men voted for Kamala during the election, President Trump gained popularity across all demographics, including African American males, subsequently performing better in predominantly Black cities of Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Detroit than in 2020.
However, Rep. Crockett believes Trump’s improved popularity among Black men boiled down to a single factor — misogyny.
“I definitely think that there was misogyny in this across the board, no matter what color male you’re talking about,” she stated. “I just think that you’d be in error to not, like, know that there was misogyny that existed.”
Democrats have often analyzed each candidate through the lens of identity to determine which traits they could exploit politically. After Kamala’s magical transformation from Asian to Black, race became a less valid point when talking about Black men. Thus, Crockett opted for the low-hanging fruit instead — gender.
Usually, Democrats would blame racism when other races, especially White voted against Kamala. For White men, it would obviously be attributed to both racism and misogyny.
However, Democrats had already prejudged Black men before elections as misogynistic. They subsequently spent a considerable amount of time and effort pressuring them to support Kamala, often implying that voting for someone else was sexist.
“Part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,” Obama told Black men during a Harris-Walz campaign.
Other leftists also echoed Obama’s comments about Black men being misogynistic if they fail to vote for the former Vice President.
“I believe President Obama is speaking to a tangible, visceral understanding of what it means for all men to relate to women in America,” said Khalil Thompson, the executive director and co-founder of Win With Black Men. “Calling out misogyny is not wrong.”
Meanwhile, Rep. Crockett also acknowledged that Kamala had a bad reputation with Black men while working as a federal prosecutor.
“The very first polling briefing that we had, with a pollster that I trust a lot — he briefed the black caucus, and he said that one of the issues that he was running into with black and brown communities was that she had been a prosecutor,” Crockett claimed.
“There was definitely some resume stuff that disallowed her from being able to build the type of rapport of trust within these marginalized communities that historically have been targeted.”
Yet, how she and others concluded that misogyny was the primary reason Kamala lost support among some Black men remains unclear. Nonetheless, misogyny was leveled against all men across all minority races.
“It’s misogyny from Hispanic men, it’s misogyny from black men — things we’ve all been talking about — who do not want a woman leading them,” said “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough.
However, a CNN exit poll shows that the economy was among the top concerns for Black and Hispanic men, not gender and race, as Democrats would have you believe.
