Representative Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) offered a tough assessment on why black men refused to line up and cast their vote for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
The racial overtones in that assessment are somewhat controversial.
In an interview with former "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd for his new podcast on Monday, Crockett offered two excuses for why Harris's message was not resonating with black male voters. The first such excuse involved misogyny, to nobody's surprise.
"I definitely think that there was misogyny in this across the board, no matter what color male you're talking about," she stated. "I just think that you'd be in error to not, like, know that there was misogyny that existed."
The misogyny card isn't much of a shock. Democrats have been playing it, along with the race card, for decades now when trying to explain their failures as a party. They leaned into it heavily in the days after the election, blasting black and Hispanic voters as woman-haters, costing Harris the election.
What follows in Crockett's assessment, though, is a little different. An assertion that black men didn't support Kamala because of her history as a prosecutor in California, where she rabidly tackled marijuana-related offenses.
“The very first polling briefing that we had, with a pollster that I trust a lot — he briefed the black caucus, and he said that one of the issues that he was running into with black and brown communities was that she had been a prosecutor," Crockett claimed.
"There was definitely some resume stuff that disallowed her from being able to build the type of rapport of trust within these marginalized communities that historically have been targeted."
Harris's campaign initially attempted to frame the presidential election as a prosecutor versus convicted felon narrative, which was a shot at President Trump. But Crockett is saying the prosecutor versus felon narrative scared off black men? That sounds mildly racist.
As California attorney general, Harris oversaw thousands of marijuana-related convictions. Critics argued that these convictions disproportionately affected black and brown communities and that Kamala's office fought against efforts to reduce sentences or expunge records.
But to suggest that black men wouldn't vote for her because they were concerned about a tough-on-marijuana prosecutor being in the White House seems borderline bigoted. Why do Democrats think the number one motivating factor for black men is weed? I mean, you would have half expected them to make it a focal point of Harris's campaign.
Oh wait. They did actually try to entice black male voters with weed and crypto.
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Black male voters were repeatedly bombarded by prominent Democrats prior to the election, saying that if they didn't vote for Harris, they were misogynists. Barack Obama tore into “brothers” and suggested they were sexist for not wanting to cast their vote for the former Vice President.
"Part of it makes me think – and I’m speaking to men directly – part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that,” he said a month before the election.
After the election, Democrats and the media took their anger out on black male voters to an even more pronounced degree. "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough hammered black and Hispanic men for the very same reason.
“Democrats need to be mature, and they need to be honest. And they need to say, ‘Yes, there is misogyny, but it’s not just misogyny from white men,’” Scarborough asserted.
“It’s misogyny from Hispanic men, it’s misogyny from black men — things we’ve all been talking about — who do not want a woman leading them."
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough says that Kamala Harris lost to Donald Trump because blacks and Latinos are sexist and Latinos are racist:
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) November 6, 2024
“A lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates”
Al Sharpton says black men are among “the most” sexist people pic.twitter.com/bDMJNS4Mof
The vitriol and hatred towards minority voters who wouldn't stand behind Harris have been incredible. Democrats talking down to and lecturing the very voting blocs they use to push their agenda isn't exactly going to attract more of those voters back to their party.
Editor's Note: The Democrat Party has never been less popular as voters reject its globalist agenda.
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