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Democrats Didn’t Want to Believe They Had a Problem With Black Men. Then Trump Won.

Democrats swore their problems with Black men were imagined. Turns out, they had problems across the board.

Supporters at a Trump campaign event in Atlanta.
Donald Trump supporters gather during a campaign rally. Alex Brandon/AP

Up until the final hours before election results started rolling in Tuesday, Democrats swore they didn’t have a problem with Black men.

So intense was their denial, and so certain were Democrats that they knew better, that pundits and operatives were blaming the media for what they said were inaccurate stories about Donald Trump’s gains with Black men.

“I see Black men performing the way Black women perform,” Roland Martin, one of the popular faces of Kamala Harris’ outreach to Black men, told NOTUS on Monday. Martin was also part of the group that organized the “Win With Black Men” calls.