As a young, African-American woman who voted for Barack Obama in 2012, ShoMore DeNiro is not your typical Donald Trump fan.
But ShoMore and her friend Justis Harrison are regulars at his rallies, where crowds of mostly white, older Americans turn out to chant his name and his rallying cry; “Make America Great Again”.
“During high school I was a Democrat and I did door-to-door for President Obama,” ShoMore tells Dateline reporter Dean Cornish. “A lot of things that Mr Trump is actually saying is what I believe in.”
“We were a really good country and I don’t know what happened through the years, but I’d like us to get back to where our jobs were here and our education was back on top.”
ShoMore believes Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is the person best placed to spur jobs growth and improve the quality of education.
“He supports all that…he’s my guy.”
ShoMore’s voting shift from Democrat to Republican is part of a broader trend across Ohio, a noted swing state, which voted Democrat in the past two presidential elections.
Polling data shows Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has been ahead of Trump in Ohio most of the year, but a steep incline in popularity during September saw Trump take the lead in the battle for the White House.
Securing Ohio is considered crucial for both nominees – the winner of the state has won the presidential election 93 per cent of the time, and in every year since John F. Kennedy took the White House in 1960.
Ohio, along with Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan and other states in the mid northeast of the U.S., were once considered the home of American manufacturing.
The decline of the steel industry – and associated financial collapse, urban blight and population loss – led to these North Eastern and Midwest states becoming known as the Rust Belt.
This election Donald Trump is bringing a message of industrial recovery to the region; “We’re going to put the miners and the steelworkers back to work,” he declares at a rally in Akron.
The question is whether he will be able to follow through on the promises he’s making.
I think ShoMore is her real name and her mom should be ashamed of herself.
I really hope they are a very tiny minority of young black women who support him. They must ny be listening to what he has said about women or minorities. This is really sad.
I looked at her college graduation photo and not one black person aka family memeber congratulated her.
Doesn't make sense.
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Yeah there are definitely a few fake "black people for trump" Twitter accounts out there that my friend pointed out to me. Who is making up these accounts? What a damn shame.
Post by dr.girlfriend on Oct 20, 2016 9:12:22 GMT -5
I am rolling my eyes at Trump inviting Obama's half-brother to the debate. Yeah, Trump, you had to go all the way to Kenya to find a black voter who supported you.
I don't get it. What's the point of the fake blacks for Trump?
I've noticed that white people do that when they're trying to get black people to see the error of their ways.
For example, the black sheriff Fox News always has on and that time Morgon Freeman said we didn't need Black History Month.
It's always the people flying a confederate flag that post that shit.
Yes, I also think it's a means of showing that the person/policy being supported is appealing to all (even if it clearly demonstrates that it goes against/hurts minorities). For example, see Stacy Dash believes in it and she's black therefore it must not be a racist idea. Clearly the "other" blacks/minorities just don't get it, and it's not racist because we can parade this one minority who thinks we're right. I genuinely believe that's what they think and they are literally trying to utilize the minority who agrees with their views as a showpiece.