Until recently, the national conversation about this 2024 presidential election has been largely focused on white working class voters.

President Biden considered himself the champion of the working and the as the son of Appalachia with Hillbilly Roots, a man who would fight for the workers in this country.

But the question of how black voters might vote this year, black, a key segment of the electorate.

That question has been unusually open-ended.

When President Biden was still at the top of the Democratic ticket, polls showed him underperforming with black

voters as they slipped to Donald Trump. An in-depth pew survey of nearly 9,000

adults published this summer before Biden dropped out found that one in five black men

said they plan to vote for Trump. In the 2016 election 13% of black men voted for

Trump but in 2020 19% of black men voted for Trump, but in 2020, 19% of black men did. Part of Biden's problem as a

candidate was figuring out how to stop black voters, especially black men, from deserting the Democratic Party this November.

But since Vice President Kamala Harris has become the de facto nominee less than two weeks ago,

those numbers have changed and they have changed significantly.

And now the Trump campaign is in a tail spin as it tries to figure out whether voters of

color, particularly black voters, are still in play.

And so today, in a remarkably ill-advised appearance

before the National Association of Black Journalists,

the NABJ-B-J.

Donald Trump sat on stage for a question and answer session.

A lot of people did not think it was appropriate for you to be here today. You have pushed false claims

about some of your rivals from Mickey Haley to former President Barack Obama

saying that they were not born in the United States, which is not true.

You have told four Congress women of color

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