Facing possible electoral calamity, Republicans are now turning to a familiar playbook: stoking fear by trying to redefine the BLM movement as a radical leftist mob
Conservative critiques are based on the fact that two founders of Black Lives Matter Global Network, Patrisse Cullors and Alicia Garza, are self-declared Marxists — a description Cullors used in a 2015 interview.
Bill Hagerty greets supporters at a polling place Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, in Brentwood, Tenn. A former U.S. ambassador to Japan, Hagerty is running in the GOP primary to replace retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander.
Republican efforts “to assail that statement actually has opened up an important conversation within the Black community,” Abdullah said. “It hasn't had the backlash that I think that they wanted it to have.” “The average voter in that swing suburb is not thinking about BLM as [select] leaders of the movement,” said Jefrey Pollock, president of polling firm Global Strategy Group, who works with Democrats in swing House and Senate races. “They're thinking about the larger conversation that is happening about African Americans and racial injustice.”. And 62 percent of white people say minorities are not treated equally in the criminal justice system — up 18 points since 2014.
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