President-elect Donald Trump doubled his support among black men from last cycle while likely amassing the largest percentage of nonwhite voters for a Republican presidential hopeful since Richard Nixon. Black men opted for Trump by about 21%, while black women backed him at 7%, with 12% of black supporters voting for him overall — up from 8% eight years prior, according to Edison Research . For black men who shifted to Trump, the change was the culmination of growing dismay over Democrats’ attitude toward them, a rebellion against being pigeon-holed politically due to their race, and broadly warming up to GOP policies.
There was also a lingering sense that Trump was someone with whom they could relate. “By the president getting that mug shot, he was able to see through a black man’s eyes,” Duke Tanner, a former undefeated professional boxer whom Trump granted clemency , told The Post. “He was able to really see through a black man’s eyes at what we go through and [have] been going through for years.
” Tanner was arrested at the age of 24 for a drug conspiracy for which he was later convicted and sentenced to life behind bars, a stint that kept him away from his son. He has since penned a book on his journey , “My son didn’t want to learn how to ride a bike because I wasn’t there to teach him. He wanted me to teach him how to ride a bike — not his uncle, not his grandpa,” Tanner recalled.
But just over four years ago, Trump intervened and “saved the.