Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon has claimed that Donald Trump is the subject of a “great awakening” amongst African American and Hispanic men, as the US election descends into its final countdown.
The Republican presidential hopeful is gaining support among Hispanics with a new poll released Wednesday by The Economist and YouGov suggesting he is making inroads with the demographic in the final days of the presidential race.
According to the poll, Trump trails Harris with 40 per cent of the share compared to her 52.
The same poll found Harris ahead by a thin margin across all 1,587 registered voters who were surveyed, leading Trump 47 per cent to 46 per cent.
However, Trump sparked outrage with the community at his New York rally after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” drawing criticism from a number of high-profile Hispanic Americans.
Speaking exclusively to GBN America, Bannon claimed African American and Hispanic voters “now understand what Trump is talking about” and are driving the polls as he and Harris court for voters in their final push for election victory.
Steve Bannon hailed the ‘great awakening’ of Donald Trump supporters
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Speaking to GBN America’s Steve Edginton, Bannon said: “I think President Trump is not separating out white from black, but I think it’s the first time you’re starting to see, on a mass basis, that African-Americans and Hispanic men are really having a great awakening.
“They’re sitting there going, ‘hang on, now I understand what Trump is talking about, now I understand these economic policies.
“‘Now I see what the Federal Reserve and the Biden administration has done to me economically’.”
Analysing the voter demographic ahead of the election on November 5, Bannon added that the communities are now “coming together” to support Trump, and in turn is boosting the Republican’s polls against Harris.
Donald Trump is currently just one point behind Harris in the national polls
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Bannon told GBNA: “This is a great awakening. I think that the white working class, the African American working class, the Hispanic, I think they’re coming together.
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“This is what’s going to be driving President Trump’s polls right now.”
When pressed by Steven on what Trump is “offering white people in general” alongside the other communities, Bannon highlighted that Trump’s policies on prison reform will “save their families” and “save the community” as a result.
Bannon explained: “The First Step Act is not to make it easier for criminals. What they’re saying is that their are jails are full, and they should be full of people to do violent crimes or people that have behaviours that they can’t overcome.
“People like nonviolent drug offenders and some of these other offenders, you want to get them through the system, obviously pay their debts to society, but make sure they’re productive and get them back out.
“So they save their families. And in saving their families, they save the community.”
Bannon told GBNA that Donald Trump is gaining support from the ‘white, African-American and Hispanic communities’
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Hitting out at Trump’s Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, Bannon delivered his verdict on the Vice President’s chances of becoming America’s first woman President.
Bannon told GBNA: “I think what shocked me the most is how little she knows and how she really can’t walk through a coherent set of policy prescriptions that would kind of make the point that she wants to make.
“People are sitting there and going, I don’t really understand what she stands for in a presidential way, particularly when her image is not formed to the American, although she’s vice president.”