Charlamagne the God, host of SiriusXM's “The Breakfast Club,” said Sunday on ABC's “This Week” that President-elect Donald Trump won the “dinner table issue.” .
Karl: What do you think about the demographics here? I mean, Trump won one in three voters of color.
Charlamagne: No.
Karl: Yeah.
Charlamagne: One of them —
Curl: 33%. Really? Yeah.
Charlamagne: When I say color, I mean black, brown, and everything else. oh. Well, different people are interested in different issues, and I don't think anyone votes based on just one issue. I think part of it is a backlash against race, gender, and identity politics. But most people only care about putting food on their table and keeping a roof over their head. And I think people sometimes forget that. I think they forget about the working class. And I think, for whatever reason, Donald Trump truly represents the grievances of the working class. And I keep telling people, people will forget what you did, people will forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. And then you go back to 2020, even though it was a pandemic, it was COVID-19.
Karl: Yeah.
Charlamagne: People don't care. All they know is that he received a stimulus check with his name on it. And that's their memory. So people, when you have conversations with people, you're going to think things like, “Oh, I remember what 2020 felt like!” And they think this next next semester they're going to feel this.
Karl: Yeah. I mean, how can I explain it, he clearly swept the battleground states. He boosted voter turnout in Republican areas across the country. But he outperformed Republicans and far better than he had previously done in places like Chicago, Brooklyn, and Queens.
Charlamagne: Because it's a dinner table issue. It's – literally, it's very simple. Every day, people wake up and just wish they had more money in their pockets and peace of mind. It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, or what your religion is. These are the two things you think about every day. How do we keep money in our pockets and how do we stay safe? And when you look at issues like the economy, when you look at borders, that's what I'm telling people. We had this conversation in February. I was having conversations with people and they said to me, “You know what? And we know it's because of borders. Borders must be closed. ” They were having this conversation. And I said, John, this is the first time in my life that I've heard black and brown people in my community having that conversation. So that's going to be the problem. They felt things were safer. They felt the border had become more secure under the Trump administration. By the way, it's not that Democrats don't want border security. They just didn't know how to convey it properly. “Building a wall” may sound elementary, but do you know what it tells people? Border security. that's it. Nothing more, nothing less. “We need to have the most comprehensive border plan and you know we had a bipartisan border bill and Democrats and Republicans couldn't agree on it and Donald Trump voted it down,” and so on. Don't complicate things by saying that. ”No, Trump is saying build a wall. And when they said that's a problem, you said, “No, that's not a problem.” Create a sanctuary city and attract people to your city. ” So what did they say when they started putting illegal immigrants on buses and planes and sending them to sanctuary cities? “No, don't come.” So it seemed like Republicans were right and Democrats were wrong, but no one knew that would be one of the big central issues people thought about when they went into the voting booth. I didn't.
