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    MLK III and wife say black men shouldn’t be blamed for 2024 results

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    If the Vice President Kamala Harris If the civil rights icon’s son, Martin Luther King III, loses the upcoming presidential election, black men shouldn’t be responsible, he said.

    “This election will not be won or lost by the number of Black men who support or don’t support (Harris), even though it’s a very slim choice,” King said in an interview with USA TODAY on Thursday. he said. “You can’t go and say it’s Black men’s fault.”

    “That seems to be where he’s trying to go,” he added.

    Black men have historically been a core constituency for Democrats. But in Harris’ 2024 race against the Republican former President Donald TrumpSupport for the Democratic Party is reportedly declining among these voters.

    Polls show Harris still winning a majority of black men. In a New York Times/Siena College poll earlier this month, 70% of black men said they would vote for Harris, while 20% chose Trump and 10% were undecided or declined to answer.

    Support for President Joe Biden, who won 87% of black male voters in 2020, has waned, according to the Pew Research Center.

    And in a neck-and-neck race like this year’s, every vote will determine the final outcome.

    But King, the eldest son of Martin Luther King Jr., said black men alone do not bear responsibility for the Democrats’ effort to hold the White House.

    “To win this election, it takes a coalition of women, men, black men, white men, everyone, Latino and Hispanic people, in some cases Native Americans,” King said.

    King said the narrative that Black men would cost Harris, the first woman and woman of color elected president in the United States, the Oval Office was already “being established.” Democrats report concern about black male support this election flared up in recent weeks.

    Former President Barack Obama made a statement draw attention to concern during a stop at the Harris campaign office in Pittsburgh earlier this month. He suggested misogyny might be to blame for clouding their judgment.

    “You come up with all kinds of reasons and excuses,” Obama said in his speech to black men. “Some of this suggests to me that you don’t feel comfortable with the idea of ​​a woman being president.” and you find other alternatives and other reasons for this.

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    Black men are not the only voting bloc that Democrats are focused on and concerned about.

    Looks like the vice president Lost ground with Latino votersHe favored Trump over Harris, 49% to 38%, in a USA TODAY/University of Suffolk poll released this week. A similar poll in August had Latino voters backing Harris 53% to 37%.

    With so much attention on black men right now, King and his wife, Arndrea Waters King, told USA TODAY they expect these voters and their decisions to be heavily scrutinized after Election Day. So can Black men take as much credit for Harris’ win as they do for Harris’s loss?

    “Probably not,” Waters King said. “I think as Martin said, the narrative seems to be more about blame.”

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