On the heels of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s ill-conceived suggestion that Republicans are fine sacrificing white, women voters for “Julios and Jamals” (presumably meaning Latino and Black men), I think now is a good time to revisit a beat I’ve been on for the last several years: covering the GOP’s hapless attempt to sway Black voters.
Last week, failed presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy appeared to get a co-sign from rapper Meek Mill when the artist reposted a right-wing conspiracy theorist’s clip of Ramaswamy’s gushing endorsement of Trump in Iowa last week.
“Wait till yall see who the Black people in poverty vote for!” Mill posted on the social media platform X, somehow managing to load elitism, classism and an endorsement of Ramaswamy’s bigotry into a dozen words.
Wait til yall see who the black people in poverty voting for!!!! https://t.co/ymsV3vp0IH
— MeekMill (@MeekMill) January 17, 2024
Meek Mill later posted that people shouldn’t listen to him because he doesn’t know anything about politics (as if we needed that tip). But not before Republicans, including Ramaswamy, gleefully re-shared the rapper’s post.








