Jim Clyburn: Black Voters Need to Understand That a Trump Presidency Would Be ‘Jim Crow 2.0’

BASH: “You just heard Donald Trump making his appeal to black men quite explicit. Your friend, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell, who you campaigned with in Michigan, says that the message she’s hearing from black men is, ‘Democrats take us for granted. Donald Trump talks to us directly.’ Are you concerned about black men voting for Trump or staying home?”
Clyburn: “Well, thank you very much for having me. Yes, I am concerned about the black men staying home or voting for Trump. But my concerns don’t tend to keep me from being energetic about this campaign, because I was in Michigan campaigning with Debbie last weekend. I thought our swing through Michigan was very, very effective. I met with black men. I met with black religious leaders. I met with black union leaders. And, quite frankly, I think we had very Frank and direct discussions, and I don’t see and feel what I’m reading about in news reports. Yes, black men, like everybody else, want to know exactly what I can expect from a Harris administration, and I have been very direct with them. And I have also contrasted that with what they can expect from a Trump Administration. We will expect Project 2025 to be a full-blown policy in his administration. And what would that policy be? I described it on the first night of our national convention, and I have been describing it that way ever since. It will be Jim Crow 2.0. Now, you know, I’m the ninth African-American serving in Congress from South Carolina. That means there were eight before me. The problem is, there were 95 years between number eight and number nine. And the policies of that 95 years that kept us out of government, out of this economy, is called Jim Crow. And if you look at Project 2025, it will be Jim Crow 2.0. And I am amazed at the number of people who actually are interested in contrasting that. And I think that we had a lot of success up in Michigan being able to explain that.”