Rapper and business mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs insisted this weekend that Black voters “hold our vote” this upcoming election until a candidate makes issues for Blacks a priority in the campaign, adding that Black voters who put President Barack Obama into office “got a little bit shortchanged.”
“This is politics. You put somebody in office, you get in return the things that you care about for your communities. I think we got a little bit shortchanged. That’s not knocking the president,” Diddy said in an interview with MSNBC on Sunday. “He’s done an excellent job, you know, but I think it’s time to turn up the heat, because the Black vote is going to decide who is the next president of the United States.”
An estimated 31 percent of eligible voters this election will be minorities, making this the most diverse election in United States history. A recent Pew Research Center study found that Blacks make up 12 percent of all eligible voters. Of Black registered voters, 85 percent support Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, and 2 percent support Trump.
