MILWAUKEE — Patricia Easley (aka “P Rae”) seems like a one-woman army, an unstoppable force — like the former president and GOP presidential candidate she adores. But this human dynamo is going up against the immovable object of entrenched Democrat politics in the lives of what she sees as ideologically enslaved black Chicagoans.
Easley is the founder of ChicagoRed, a “movement” of “Independent and Conservative voters” dedicated to the tall order of swinging Chicago right. Easley doesn’t see herself as the black Don Quixote, though. She says more than 100 people have joined the fledgling group since launching in March, and she says Chicago hasn’t seen nothing yet.
“Our goal is to get people away from the mentality of liberal failure that is happening in our city,” P Rae told me. “Our grandparents ran from the south to this city, and they met the same people in the north who continue to terrorize them and their children.
Easley, a conservative activist and radio personality, earned huge props from former President Donald Trump earlier this year after calling out leftist Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for laying out the taxpayer-funded welcome mat for a flood of illegal immigrants. The illegal alien crisis, the direct result of President Joe Biden’s open-door border policy, is one of the leading issues on the minds of voters in the upcoming presidential rematch race.
The nation’s third-most populous city (for now, anyway) is also infamous for its crime, poverty, and overall dysfunction — generational failures wrought by decades of entrenched Democrat leadership, conservatives like Easley argue. In October, The Center Square reported that “Chicago-area residents are now three times more likely to become a homicide victim than they are to be struck by lightning.” According to the report, black Chicagoans represented more than three-quarters of the city’s homicide victims in the latest figures.
Yet, black voters continue to vote straight Democrat tickets.
Easley believes things have hit a tipping point — in her city and among black voters nationwide. There definitely is growing discontent, an all-too-common feeling in the buyer’s remorse Biden world.
An NBC poll in January found 75 percent of black voters saying they would vote for President Joe Biden in the election. That’s down from the 92 percent of black voters who once supported the old Democrat in 2020. That’s significant, particularly in swing states like Wisconsin expected to decide November’s winner. The most recent NBC poll — post-debate debacle — shows Biden’s support among black voters slipping to 69 percent
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