Sep 29, 2026 · 1 hr 8 min · 18 segments
Michael Bland, executive director of Black Men Vote, joins Tim, Luke, and Rich to break down what actually moved Black men toward Trump in 2024: not policy, but a democratic party that only shows up…
All right.
Welcome back, everybody.
Man, Mike's the best.
That was-
Dude, that dude is awesome.
Yeah.
He's pretty fucking cool.
I mean, such no-brainers in a lot of that stuff, and I hope people really listen to it and take it in their communities because there's a lot of advantages there, and, you know, I'm...
We gotta get him more, more airtime.
So we will, we will talk to him again.
Yeah, I, I, I just, the Democratic coalition, like, we've watched it just fracture, and I think the scariest thing is, a- and I'd never heard this before, but when he pointed out that President Obama sort of, like, in the most horrible way possible, was the end of a chapter and the beginning of a new chapter because they real- I mean, that's fucking-
Yep
... that's bone-chilling to think that-
Heavy shit
... we got President-
Yeah
...
Obama elected, y- we Democrats, this country, and, and that was the sign that, oh, like, there's no silver bullet.
And so Democrat- or so then Black voters were, kind of opened their minds to different options a little bit more.
It's like, oh, fuck, okay.
So, 'cause we already-
Yep
... knew that.
I mean, we thought we had it.
We, we thought we had it made in the shade after, after 2008.
All right.
Welcome back, everybody.
Man, Mike's the best.
That was-
Dude, that dude is awesome.
Yeah.
He's pretty fucking cool.
I mean, such no-brainers in a lot of that stuff, and I hope people really listen to it and take it in their communities because there's a lot of advantages there, and, you know, I'm...
We gotta get him more, more airtime.
So we will, we will talk to him again.
Yeah, I, I, I just, the Democratic coalition, like, we've watched it just fracture, and I think the scariest thing is, a- and I'd never heard this before, but when he pointed out that President Obama sort of, like, in the most horrible way possible, was the end of a chapter and the beginning of a new chapter because they real- I mean, that's fucking-
Yep
... that's bone-chilling to think that-
Heavy shit
... we got President-
Yeah
...
Obama elected, y- we Democrats, this country, and, and that was the sign that, oh, like, there's no silver bullet.
And so Democrat- or so then Black voters were, kind of opened their minds to different options a little bit more.
It's like, oh, fuck, okay.
So, 'cause we already-
Yep
... knew that.
I mean, we thought we had it.
We, we thought we had it made in the shade after, after 2008.
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