Florida Republican Rep. Byron Donald said Fox News host Trey Gordy Sunday night that he and other black conservatives are targets of Democrats and liberal media because they “do not fit the story.”
President Donald Trump carried 13% of the Black vote in 2024. According to 12% compared to CNN exit vote 2020 8% in 2016. Donald accused Democrats and corporate media of trying to “addict” black conservatives after describing them as having “front row seats” for hostility towards South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott and former Republican Sen. Mia Love. announcement Terminal cancer diagnosis. (Related: Harris Faulkner bashing guest and underestimates Dems’ influence chair)
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“The reason is that it doesn’t fit the story of the media trying to sell people in our country. It’s not just true, and it’s not that true that Democrats are the only home for black people,” Donald told Gowdy. “The truth is, black people are actually more conservative than Democrats. So when you see Mia’s love, Tim Scott, and seeing themselves and many other people coming, they have to slander us, they have to make us demons.”
In response to President Joe Biden’s speech to Congress in 2021, Scott faced racist attacks from liberals, including the “Uncle Tim” hashtag campaign on Twitter. Love, the two-term Republican lawmaker in Utah, who was the first black woman to represent Utah in the law, was snabbed alongside other Republicans by Ebony Magazine on the profile of a black woman running for Congress in 2018.
“This is something we had to develop in the course of our lives. I was caught up in politics when I was 30,” Donald told Gowdy. “That’s when I realized that I was a conservative and had to not only persuade myself, but also the people in my community to support me. So the media has to slander us and destroy us, but it’s not going to work. I’m not going to stop.”
Trump approved Donald on February 20 for the 2026 governor race in Florida.
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