Sen. Raphael Warnock Urges Black Men To Consider This Trump Chapter Before Voting

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) urged Black people and particularly Black men to “consider” Donald Trump’s role in the case of the exonerated Central Park Five before voting for him in an urgent call to action on Sunday.

“Black men know, as they watch him deal with his own criminal problems and concerns, that the criminal justice system certainly doesn’t handle them the way it handles him,” the Georgia senator said in an interview with CNN’s Dana Bash.

Warnock reacted to a recent poll in The New York Times that shows Vice President Kamala Harris leading Trump with the support of 78% of Black likely voters.

Bash noted that the VP’s figure is more than 10 percentage points behind how President Joe Biden is estimated to have fared with Black voters in the 2020 election, based on exit polls and postelection assessments.

“So 1 in 5 Black men are saying that they’re supporting Donald Trump. Why do you think that is?” she asked Warnock.

Warnock said Black men won’t vote for Trump “in any significant numbers” before adding that some of them will vote for him as “we’re not a monolith.”

He then referred to the former president taking out full-page newspaper ads calling for the death penalty for “criminals of every age” before the trial of five Black and brown teens who were wrongfully convicted in the 1989 Manhattan rape case involving a white woman.

“And then when it was proven that the Exonerated Five, the Central Park Five, were actually innocent, Donald Trump has shown no deal of concern about what they went through, no bit of contrition about it,” Warnock said.

“He’s doubled down on his position. This is who he is,” he added.

Warnock later stacked Harris against Trump, adding that she found ways to give people “a path toward a better life” in her career as a prosecutor.

“[She’s] spent her whole life as a lawyer, as a senator and now as vice president, centering the concerns of ordinary people,” he said.

“Again, we’re not a monolith but this idea that large numbers of Black men are going to vote for Donald Trump is not gonna happen.”