A lifelong Democrat on the Flint, Michigan City Council is endorsing President Donald Trump for reelection.
Flint City Council member Maurice Davis, 64, announced his endorsement for Trump on Wednesday, saying, “I’m not an Uncle Tom.”
Vice President Mike Pence called Davis to the stage during a campaign rally at Michigan’s Flint Bishop Airport on Wednesday.
“Vice president of the City Council in Flint. Where are you, Maurice? Let’s hear it for Maurice. I’m partial to vice presidents. Thank you, Maurice,” Pence said as the crowd applauded.
“Right now, the narrative has been spent: ‘President Trump is full of hate.’ Let me tell you something, the Democrats are full of hate,” Davis said. “I’m tired, I’ve been a Democrat, I am a Democrat all my life, 64 years. Last four years I voted for Hillary Clinton. This year I decided to go with President Trump. I’m not a bootlicker, I’m not an Uncle Tom. I’m none of those things. I’m somebody that’s in a poor, impoverished community.”
Davis added, “People are losing everything, and when Mr. Trump says ‘What the hell do you got to lose?’ he was talking to me. But this is what I got to gain: Instead of being a divided state of America, it’s time to be the United States of America.
“We’re tired of suffering and nobody give a damn about poor folks. President Trump, they reached out with nothing but love from y’all all over this nation.”
Davis is not the first notable Black Democrat to support Trump. The president has been endorsed by Georgia state Representative Vernon Jones, and other Black Democrats.
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and six mayors in Minnesota, all Democrats, are supporting Trump’s re-election.
