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2020 Election: Trump Won Record Minority Support

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President Donald Trump won more minority votes than any GOP candidate in 60 years in the 2020 presidential election.

Trump won more than one-quarter of non-white votes, with 26% of minorities casting their ballot for Trump, according to an NBC exit poll.

Richard Nixon was the last Republican candidate to win a record number of minority votes, with 32% of the non-white vote, but lost to John F. Kennedy in 1960.

Trump’s numbers have improved since 2016 when he won 21 percent of the non-white vote.

The Latino community showed support for Trump in this year’s election, while Biden underperformed in heavily Latino areas, especially Miami-Dade County in Florida. Across the Southeast, majority-Latino precincts in Florida, Georgia and North Carolina swung 11.5 points towards Republicans since 2016.

In southern Texas, Trump won several heavily Latino counties in the Rio Grande Valley, including Zapata, the second-most-Latino county in the country, which hadn’t voted for a Republican in 100 years. In Massachusetts, cities with the highest share of Latino voters saw a strong shift towards Trump, according to Rich Parr, the research director for the MassINC Polling Group.

The Edison poll, the survey of records for U.S. elections, showed that support for Trump rose among African Americans, Asians and Latinos. Further, 18% of Black men voted for Trump in 2020 compared with 13% in 2016, and Black women increased their support for Trump by 80% from 2016 to 2020. Trump also roughly doubled his share of gay voters.

Famous Black performers, such as Lil Wayne and 50 Cent, endorsed Trump for re-election. After meeting with Trump, Lil Wayne took to social media to express his support.

The Trump Campaign has committed a Platinum Plan to “uplift Black communities across the country through a $500 billion investment,” promising to fund three million new Black jobs, 500,000 new Black businesses, increased Black homeownership and new opportunities for Black churches to receive federal dollars.

Rapper 50 Cent publicly criticized Joe Biden’s tax plan, which would raise taxes on those making more than $400,000 a year. “Yeah I don’t want to be 20cent,” the rapper wrote on Instagram.

Trump’s support from minority communities was very strong in key battleground states, helping him win states such as Florida.

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Jim Jordan demands IRS explain unexpected visit to Matt Taibbi’s home during testimony

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Matt Taibbi, a journalist who has been the top of the headlines for exposing Twitter censorship at the direction of the Department of Justice, had a surprise visit from an IRS agent at his home.

This visit occurred the same day that he was testifying before the Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government about what he had discovered inside of the Twitter files. Now, Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, demands to know why the agency made the visit.

SaraACarter.com also contacted the IRS media relations office Tuesday afternoon and was told by an IRS press officer to send an email for comment. As of Tuesday evening the IRS has yet to respond to the immediate inquiry.

Jordan sent a letter Tuesday to the IRS questioning the visit by the agent to Taibbi’s home in New Jersey. In the letter Jordan demanded that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen turn over documents and provide all information requested by the committee.

“As the Committee continues to examine how to best protect Americans’ fundamental freedoms and to assist the Committee in its oversight, we ask that you please provide the following documents and information:

  1. All documents and communications referring or relating to the IRS’s field visit to the residence of Matthew Taibbi on March 9, 2023;
  2. All documents and communications between or among the IRS, Treasury Department, and any other Executive Branch entity referring or relating to Matthew Taibbi; and
  3. All documents and communications sent or received by Revenue Officer [James Nelson] referring or relating to Matthew Taibbi.” 

Jordan noted in the letter that his committee is committed to examining “the mounting evidence that the federal government pressured, coerced, and even directed technology companies to take certain actions related to digital content.”

The Republican lawmakers were astonished that “an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent visited, unannounced and unprompted, the home of one of the hearing witnesses, Matthew Taibbi, an independent journalist who has reported extensively on government abuse. In light of the hostile reaction to Mr. Taibbi’s reporting among left-wing activists, and the IRS’s history as a tool of government abuse, the IRS’s action could be interpreted as an attempt to intimidate a witness before Congress. We expect your full cooperation with our inquiry.”

The letter went on to say that “Mr. Taibbi joined fellow journalist Michael Shellenberger in testifying before the Select Subcommittee during its March 9 hearing. During the hearing, Mr. Taibbi described the serious government abuse on which he had been reporting and on which he testified to the Select Subcommittee. As he explained:

The original promise of the internet was that it might democratize the exchange of information globally. . . . What we found is in the [Twitter] files was a sweeping effort to reverse that promise and use machine learning and other tools to turn the internet into an instrument of censorship and social control. Unfortunately, our own government appears to be playing a lead role.”

Jordan’s inquiry into the IRS is not the first time the Congress has questioned the actions of this private government contracted agency.

In 2013, the IRS admitted that it had been targeting conservative groups that were seeking tax-exempt status. Lois Lerner, who had then headed the IRS, stated that her agency had been scrutinizing groups that had “tea party” or “patriots” in their names. These were almost all conservative non-profit organizations.

Those inquiries by the IRS mainly took place in 2009 and 2010, and as reported in NPR “hundreds of groups affiliated with the party had sought tax-exempt status as 501(c)(4) “social welfare” organizations. IRS demands for documents left many of them in bureaucratic limbo for a year or more.”

Taibbi’s investigation into Twitter’s actions prior to Elon Musk’s takeover revealed major concerns expressed by former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters that the social media giant was censoring supporters.

The investigations by Taibbi proved that shadow-banning was occurring and it was targeting primarily Republican activists, journalists, and politicians using the platform. The evidence proved the the FBI had advised Twitter to not allow stories or posts that revealed the Hunter Biden laptop scandal that had first been reported by the New York Post. Those accurate stories were censored by Twitter and later it was revealed that the laptop did belong to Hunter Biden.

Senate Republicans are also deeply concerned about the actions taken Taibbi.  Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, tweeted Tuesday that the IRS visit to Taibbi “this absolutely stinks to high heaven” because the “IRS has a troubling history of targeting the political enemies of Democrats.”

Two Democrat lawmakers  at the hearing were attempting to get Taibbi to reveal his sources, which is unconstitutional. Taibbi refused to answer Representatives Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas, and Stacey Plaskett, D-Virgin Islands questions.

It was during his testimony that Taibbi’s house was being raided by the IRS.

You can follow Alexander Carter on Twitter @AlexCarterDC

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