Maryland had their elections on Tuesday for both local and federal office, and despite the media narrative that Republican frontrunner was racist and Black Lives Matter leader DeRay Mckesson was a 21st century abolitionist, more voters supported the billionaire than the activist.
According to the Baltimore Board of Elections, Mckesson received just 3,077 votes in the Democratic Mayoral primary, while Trump won the city in the Republican presidential primary with 3,950 votes.
The Black Lives Matter activist received less than three percent of the overall mayoral vote and finished in an abysmal sixth place, despite having celebrity friends like Beyonce and Stephen Colbert raise his profile — and praise from President Obama and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.
Mckesson was born and raised in Baltimore and has been a professional activist all his life, starting with youth organizations as a child and ended becoming the special assistant in the office of human capital with Baltimore City Public Schools after he graduated college.
He ultimately moved to St. Louis to protest the police after the shooting of Michael Brown and promoted the lie that the teen was unarmed saying “hands up, don’t shoot.”
Seeing the chance to follow in President Obama’s footsteps and advance his celebrity activism into an actual job as an elected official, Mckesson moved back to Baltimore to run for mayor.
It turns out that activists need more than a hashtag, a chant, and a torched CVS to earn the trust of Baltimore voters.
