Throughout his campaign, President-Elect Donald Trump promised he would change things in ways President Obama couldn’t for the black community.
The President-Elect even pitched to black voters, asking them, “What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump?”
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Polling in the lead up to the election was not favorable for the Republican nominee as he was gaining little to no support from the African American community. However, exit polls showed that Trump pulled in eight percent of support from black voters, outperforming Mitt Romney in 2012 (six percent) and John McCain in 2008 (four percent).
“I didn’t feel like I had anything to lose,” Stephen Rowe, a black millennial Trump supporter, said in an interview with Red Alert Politics. “I felt like I had everything to gain by supporting a candidate like Donald Trump, because he, ultimately, supports key aspects of the conservative platform and agenda. He wants to build a wall and he wants to make America great again.”
While many on the Left and in the mainstream media have accused Trump of being a racist, Rowe never got that vibe from him.
“I don’t feel Donald Trump is racist at all,” Rowe admitted, saying he’s been leading his own business for decades and employs people of all different backgrounds regardless of their race, religion, creed, gender, or sexual orientation.
Trump’s particular appeal to Rowe is that he defends the Second Amendment, something he felt any Democrat undermine. All in all, however, Rowe hopes black people will give President-Elect Trump a chance.
“As Nelson Mandela once said, ‘Education is the most powerful tool with which you can use to change the world,'” Rowe noting that Trump believes in school choice. “Future black kids, you child, growing up [are] going to be able to grow up in an atmosphere where they’re able to learn as much as possible, so they can be successful and get a fair shot at the American Dream.”
Watch the entire interview below: