Scott, a possible vice presidential pick, echoed Trump’s belief that the New York conviction in his hush money case and other criminal trials will make the candidate“I honestly think this decision is helpful to driving even more folks to the Republican Party,” Scott told a group of reporters in Washington this week following Trump’s guilty verdict on 34 felonies.
While the vast majority of black voters still back Biden, 77%, over Trump, 18%, according to recent Pew Research Center polling, the president is losing sizable ground to his predecessor. Biden captured nearly 90% of the black vote in 2020. “I got indicted a second time and a third time and a fourth time, and a lot of people said that that’s why the black people like me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against,” Trump said. “And they actually viewed me as I’m being discriminated against. It’s been pretty amazing.