Van Jones told Democrats to “wake up” Tuesday night because President Donald Trump is “effective” in “going after enough black votes to cause us problems.”
“We’ve got to pay a lot more attention both to what’s going on with the Latino vote. Are we going to get a benefit in terms of having them respond and with the black vote is it going to be a split-off? Especially for black male voters. We’ve got to be clinical about this stuff. We get so emotional about it. That was a warning shot to us that he’s going after enough black votes to cause us problems.”
“What he was saying to African-Americans can be effective. You may not like it, but he mentioned HBCUs historically black colleges and universities — our black colleges have been struggling for a long time, a bunch of them have gone under — he threw a lifeline to them, in real life, in his budget. He talked about that. He talked about the criminal justice reform. He talked about opportunity zones. He talked about school choice. That was a warning shot across the bow at Democrats.”
“We’ve got to pay a lot more attention both to what’s going on with the Latino vote. Are we going to get a benefit in terms of having them respond and with the black vote is it going to be a split-off? Especially for black male voters. We’ve got to be clinical about this stuff. We get so emotional about it. That was a warning shot to us that he’s going after enough black votes to cause us problems.”
“What he was saying to African-Americans can be effective. You may not like it, but he mentioned HBCUs historically black colleges and universities — our black colleges have been struggling for a long time, a bunch of them have gone under — he threw a lifeline to them, in real life, in his budget. He talked about that. He talked about the criminal justice reform. He talked about opportunity zones. He talked about school choice. That was a warning shot across the bow at Democrats.”
