# How is trump still a viable candidate for president? Really, how?

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**Created:** [May 12, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-is-trump-still-a-viable-candidate-for-president-really-how/983949 "2023-05-12T14:28:40Z")\
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Despite sales of sneakers and photo ops at Chick-fil-A (shocking that this didn’t work), the GOP has not made as much headway in attracting African-American voters as they’d like. That’s not to say there hasn’t been any movement, just not a groundswell of support for Donald Trump.

> **[Pew report pokes a hole in the narrative about Trump-loving Black voters](https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/trump-black-voters-republicans-pew-report-rcna147645)**
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> The Pew Research Center has released a report that underscores how the claims that there has been a seismic shift toward Republicans among nonwhite voters have been wrong all along.

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