Amid reports that Republican operatives are trying to bounce presidential front runner Donald Trump from the New Hampshire primary ballot, and Super PACs are gearing up to spend big to take him down, two black women are telling the party establishment they’re playing with fire.
Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson — the duo making up the Viewers View — are demanding they back off trying to take down Trump or risk “losing another election.”
“They call themselves operatives, but I think they’re nothing but opportunists,” Hardaway says. “They’re trying to steal this election from the American people.”
“We didn’t switch our party to vote for nobody other than Donald J. Trump,” she said. “If you all don’t be careful, you are going to lose an election. If not the election, you’re going to lose the whole damn party because the Republican party is going to be obsolete.
“Leave Donald Trump the hell alone! He is leading in the polls!” she said. “You will not steal another election — we’re gonna take it,” Hardaway said with a laugh.
The two represent a subsection of America that is fed up with party politics and see hope in a Trump candidacy.
Polling shows they’re not alone.
A SurveyUSA poll released in September showed in a hypothetical matchup with Hillary Clinton, Trump was ahead 45% to 40%.
But digging into the racial breakdown of the respondents was revealing. For example, the poll found 25% of black respondents say they would vote for Trump over Clinton.
How impressive is that? Trump is far-and-away out-polling any Republican presidential candidate among black voters in decades.
When President Obama was running for re-election, despite a sputtering economy that was impacting blacks the worst, Mitt Romney was able to muster only 6% of the black vote, according to the Roper Center at the University of Connecticut.
At the time Obama was facing off against John McCain in 2008, the Republican received a measly 4%, according stats from to the Roper Center.
When George W. Bush was running for re-election in 2004, he only did a little better than McCain. The organization reports Bush received 11% of the black vote, while in 2000, he received 9%.
According to the SurveyUSA poll, Trump would more than double the best result for a Republican in modern American history.
Looking at the last 10 presidential election cycles, the highest black vote share for a Republican was 12% for Bob Dole in 1996.
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