Washington Examiner columnist Salena Zito analyzed the public figures that the Senate candidates in Michigan are deploying to appeal to black voters: Barack Obama and Nicki Minaj.
“Everything in Michigan is all about Detroit, and it’s all about the black vote,” Zito said Monday on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom.
Republican nominee Mike Rogers and Democratic nominee Abdul el Sayed are ramping up efforts to appeal to black voters as the Michigan Senate race enters the home stretch. Rogers opened a campaign office in Detroit, which Zito said hasn’t been done by a Republican candidate in a “very, very long time.”
During his Saturday rally in Detroit, el Sayed brought on former President Barack Obama. The former president vouched for el Sayed, acknowledging that while they disagree on multiple issues, they share the same fundamental goals.
“El Sayed, he struggles with the black community, and that’s why he brought Barack Obama in,” Zito said.
She said it was interesting to see the different public figures who were brought on the campaign trail to target black voters.
“Obama, who was like full 2008, ‘speech-a-fying,’ trying to win over voters — and I think he learned a lesson from Pennsylvania in 2024 when he went to [Pittsburgh] and he scolded black voters about not showing up for Harris — he’s tried a different tactic this time in Detroit. We’ll see if it works.”
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s rally in Detroit on Sunday supporting Rogers brought on rapper Nicki Minaj, a stark contrast to Obama.
“I thought the event with Minaj and Trump was fun, it was playful, it was unlike anything we’ve ever seen before,” Zito said. “But that kind of back and forth is appealing to voters. That is what a voter will say, ‘You know, she’s just like me.’”
OBAMA MAKES THE CASE FOR EL SAYED AND A DEMOCRATIC PARTY THAT CAN DISAGREE
Zito said she was not quite sure which way voters will swing, but it appeared as though el Sayed was struggling at this point in his campaign.
“I’m wondering if Democrats have peaked too soon,” Zito said. “Sort of like Republicans peaking too soon in 2022.”
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