• barsquid@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    You’re making an assumption that they would have voted for a black candidate in the primaries.

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      7 months ago

      That’s pretty much how I knew Ben Carson wasn’t going to get the nomination in 2016, and his popularity surged exactly when I thought it would… Televised debates. I bet you his voting block believed that a name like “Dr. Ben Carson” had to have been a whitey.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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      7 months ago

      People have ran and received votes in primaries before, Herman Cain is another name for the pot

      Trump’s strongest opponent this time around was an Indian woman