Bruce LeVell, the National Diversity
Coalition for Trump executive director, said on Sunday evening he predicts
President Donald Trump will win even higher levels of support in the black and
Hispanic communities in 2020 than he did in 2016.
“Pastor Darrell Scott is the CEO, we started
this back in 2015,” LeVell said on Breitbart News Sunday on SiriusXM
125 the Patriot Channel on Sunday evening about the National Diversity
Coalition for Trump.
“It is the largest diversity coalition platform in history
for a Republican candidate, not to mention a sitting president, and there are
millions of guests that sign on and sign up that are part of this.
"If you look
on the website, you see African Americans for Trump, Haitian Americans for
Trump, Korean Americans for Trump, Chinese Americans for Trump, Hispanic
Americans for Trump–all very large.
"They all stand in one agreement that they
believe in this great president and that he is here for all and wants everyone
to be successful. It’s pretty flattering, honestly, to be a part of this.
"It
just totally debunks everything that they try to make him out to be–a racist,
which he’s not. The numbers prove that he’s not.
"You can see where he’s rising
in terms of the Hispanic vote, and the African American vote. It’s just really
going to be mind-boggling on the next go-around. I guarantee it. It’s going to
more than double because people are happy; they’re working.”
LeVell, when asked for his rationale on why
he thinks Trump’s support in 2020 among blacks and Hispanics will more than
double, attributed it to the results President Trump has gotten for those
communities.
“Sometimes you have to speak things into
existence,” LeVell said. “The president said, ‘What do you have to lose?’ That
challenge, especially in the underserved communities, well, yeah, what do we
have to lose?
"We tried it this way for 30 or 40 years. Some of these cities and
municipalities were under Democrat rule, as you might say, for many years, and
then you say, ‘You know what? Let’s make the ask.’ You know, the president made
the ask. Sometimes, you just have to ask, ‘Hey, what do you got to lose? Try
this.’ Let’s try one of the biggest, strongest bills that he’s signed, that was
so beneficial, called the Opportunity Zones.
"This bill right here alone is
bringing a lifeline to some of these underserved communities and is projected
to bring in over hundreds of billions of dollars in these underserved
communities, which are predominantly African American communities.
"For example,
in Atlanta, there are minority business contractors teaming up with other
business contractors building a hotel in an Opportunity Zone. This community
has just been blighted for God knows how long.
"These are the things that people
are starting to see–the light at the end of the tunnel. Here’s a businessman
that understands what I call a balance sheet, a P & L sheet of profit and
loss. The president wants to see the country profitable, not losses. So that’s
what he does. He says, ‘Okay, where can we improve? What can we do?'”
He continued, “Like I said earlier, I think
the Opportunity Zones is a sleeper; it has so many moving parts to it where you
can sell a piece of property for $2 million and instead of paying that very
high capital gains [tax] you can identify those funds over the zone, and then,
you can build another little hotel or a shopping center for economic
empowerment for that community.
"So there’s so many initiatives out there for
people of color, like myself, who see opportunities. You know, how about this?
You live in a black community under the Trump administration, you walk down the
street and say, ‘Wow, 98 percent who live in the community are African
American,’ and you say, ‘Why don’t you build that grocery store? Why don’t you
build that gas station?’ Wow, you’re right. I can.
"The programs that are out
there, like in the Small Business Administration, you get as little as five or
ten percent down, and they can maturize it to 30 years, and if you’re a
veteran, they waive the fees. There are so many tools out there, and you saw
the president when he adjusted Dodd-Frank last year; that was a terrible,
terrible deal they did in 2009 and 2010 that literally almost just choked and
killed the business community because of the Dodd-Frank, going in there and
regulating these small community banks, which were life support for these small
communities especially in the African American community, where he readjusted
that last year and made it work.
"These are the things this president
understands that as a businessman he can bring his lifelong talents to the
White House and can help America. The biggest thing about this is, remember,
the president is not beholden to any special interest group; this is a very key
part of this conversation right here because he can go in there and govern
without having to worry about paying back favors.”
According to NBC News analysis in the
immediate aftermath of the 2016 election, Trump actually outperformed now-Sen.
Mitt Romney (R-UT)–then the former governor of Massachusetts–in the 2012
election when it came to both the black and Hispanic communities.
“Trump claimed 29 percent of the Hispanic
vote on Tuesday, compared to Romney’s 27 percent in 2012,” NBC News wrote. “With blacks, exit polls show Trump
claimed 8 percent of the vote to the previous Republican nominee’s 6 percent.”
If Trump is able to double support in the
black and Hispanic communities in 2020, as LeVell predicts he will, no Democrat
will stand even close to a chance of defeating him; the margins they would need
for victories in a number of states would be significantly eroded.
Perhaps that
is why the Democrats are now attempting to paint Trump as a racist amid his
battle with the so-called “Squad” of socialist Reps. Alexandria Ocasi0-Cortez
(D-NY), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI).
The new faces of the Democrat Party, the “Squad,” in other words, is worried
they may lose the election in 2020 if LeVell and other Trump backers are right.
But the scurrilous accusations of racism for quick political gains, which have
also been leveled at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and former Vice President Joe
Biden in recent weeks, LeVell warns, may undermine the ability to stand up to
actual racism where it exists.
“At first, it was kind of bizarre,” LeVell,
who knows Trump well and has known him prior to his run for president, said of
the false racism accusations.
“Now, it’s just plainly un-American. It’s so
anti-patriotic. You know, the interesting thing about it for me as a black
conservative or Republican–I like to define myself as a Frederick Douglass
Republican–most of the name-calling comes from people who actually look like me,
90 percent of it. It’s bizarre, and it’s because our thinking process is not
lining up with theirs. It’s the only playbook they have, like I said earlier,
which is, ‘Let’s just use the race card.’"
LeVell went on to say, “Getting back to the
president, I’ve been around him–I was just with him at the rally–in very
intimate settings, behind the scenes at the rally, and you’re right: I’ve
traveled with him, been on the plane with him. I’ve been in private meetings
with him. I’ve talked with him, and you know–let me tell you something: I’m 55
years old, I’ve lived my whole life in the South, and I’m world-traveled. Let
me tell you: I know racism when I see it. This man is nowhere near being a
racist.
"It’s so sad because it does such a disservice to this great nation that
they would throw that name and throw those words around. I mean, you have
people calling Biden racist. They’re calling Pelosi racist. They’re calling the
dog-catcher racist because he impounded the black dog instead of the white dog.
Come on. What’s next?
"You know, it’s kind of sad because it’s pretty much
watered down things that are legitimate, to where people are just going to get
so numb with it, and people are just being like, ‘Wow, are you serious?'”
