Sam Dorman of Fox News writes President Trump courts minority voters ahead of 2020 (abridged):
Former NFL player Jack Brewer once campaigned for Barack Obama but now rejects the Democratic Party after “awakening” to the way it abandoned African Americans, he said Saturday.
“For me, once I saw the policies that President Obama pushed in the back half of his presidency just — it left a bad taste in my mouth,” he said during an appearance on “Fox & Friends.”
Brewer predicted that a “black awakening” would lead to President Trump garnering more than 20 percent of the black vote in 2020.
Brewer now leads the The Brewer Group, which encourages “a deep commitment to community service into … daily corporate culture.” In the NFL, the standout defensive back played for the Vikings, Giants, Eagles and Cardinals.
African Americans, Brewer indicated, should sympathize with Trump given their history with the FBI.
“You got the FBI blatantly going after the president in targeting him, changing emails, and going after him in the same corrupt way that they went against Martin Luther King and many black leaders,” Brewer said.
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