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But exit polls suggest Tillery wasn’t wrong in his assessment. According to NBC News exit polls, 77% of Black men voted for Vice President Kamala Harris.

“We calculated last fall that in order for them to win, they would need 83% to 84% of Black men to [turn out]. “Three weeks out from the election, she was only at 71% with Black men,” says Tillery. “The story of the election is that not only did young Black men vote significantly more for Donald Trump but also that Black voter turnout was down.”

Tillery found that in the places where he targeted those advertisements, Black voter turnout was much better than in cities without the political ads.

“Just by putting a little bit of attention that she did in the last three weeks, she grew by eight points, but what if they had actually spent money to either take our ads or run them?” he says. “The point for us is that if we had been funded at the $1 million or $2 million level to put more ads out, the margin of victory for Harris is in our neighborhoods […] and they refused to invest.”   

What Trump’s Second Term Could Mean For Black Americans

Tillery tells Black Enterprise that one of Trump’s priorities will be overturning the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“[This administration] is going to reconstitute the Jim Crow hierarchy almost immediately,” says Tillery. “He has plans to overturn the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”

The next four years will be critical for Democrats, as Tillery says they must strategize and prioritize Black men specifically. 

Post-election, Tillery is on a mission to ensure Democrats do not go into the next election cycle abandoning the Black community, which he says is still a significant voting bloc within the party. In case Democrats abandon Black voters, Tillery says he is also setting out on an initiative to wake Black people up to realize that they may have to go alone in advocating for our priorities.  

“That means consolidating power in all the places where we have the football in Blue states where we have mayorships, and we have a large representation in state legislatures in places like Illinois, California, and New York,” Tillery adds. “It also means trying to pass local laws to protect our community. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but in all the talk that governors are making about protecting freedoms, they’re not talking about protecting Black people at all. That’s very concerning.”

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Source: Black Enterprise

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