Black MAGA Joins 2024 Biggest Losers Club | WATCH

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*Looking back at 2024, it was a good year to be a Republican. Yes, they took their lumps with criticism thrown for controversial tactics and yes, like their arch-rival the Democratic Party, they have a few unsavory members who are known more for their nonpolitical antics and extreme political views.

But the truth remains. Republicans have a majority in the House and Senate as well as a very prominent member coming back to the most powerful job in the country.

Yet there was a group of conservatives that did not fare as well. That group, Black MAGA, brought attention in the worst way. Among the subset’s members to land on Salon’s 2024 losers list are Florida Rep. Byron Donalds South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson.

Although the trio, who are loyal supporters of President-Elect Donald Trump, each brought their faults to the table to stand out among other Trump loyalists, they share a common thread in being active in helping The Donald connect with black voters in his quest to recapture the White House but failing to be among his appointees for various positions in his Cabinet.

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Although Trump promised to reward his most loyal supporters with high-ranking roles in his administration, Donalds, Scott, and Robinson were passed over in favor of other choices. Salon notes the only Black person to gain favor with Trump enough for him to nominate was Scott Turner, a relatively unknown former Texas lawmaker, ex-football player, and motivational speaker.

Turner, who worked under then-Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson in the first Trump administration, will be a part of the new administration upon returning to lead HUD. The department is noted for having the largest number of Black secretary appointments out of any federal department.

And so, the collective snubbing, alongside scandal on an individual level are reasons why 2024 was a very bad year for Robinson, Scott, and Donalds. Black MAGA itself had a less-than-stellar year before. There’s no telling what this year will offer the group or if it will be able to rebound, but eyes will be on Scott, Donalds, and Robinson, nevertheless.

Below is a breakdown of what messed them up individually and Black MAGA as a whole, per Salon.

Black MAGA Joins 2024 Biggest Losers Club // Sen. Tim Scott
Sen. Tim Scott delivers the official GOP response to President Biden’s State of the Union address (Apr 28, 2021)

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott

Scott’s year began on the heels of his failed presidential bid, following the South Carolina senator’s withdrawal from the Republican presidential primary in the final months of 2023. Shortly thereafter, he endorsed Trump and became a vocal supporter of the 78-year-old’s campaign.

“I just love you,” Scott told Trump during the candidate’s January remarks after he won the New Hampshire primary. Trump had quipped that Scott must “really hate” then-GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who appointed Scott to the Senate while serving as South Carolina’s governor, to decline to endorse her.

Scott had long been considered a top contender for Trump’s vice presidential pick, and his ardent backing of Trump made clear his interest. The South Carolinian even went on to launch a $14 million outreach effort to mobilize voters of color in seven swing states as the Trump campaign ramped up its appeals to Black and Hispanic voters over the summer.

That bid also failed. Trump chose Ohio Sen. JD Vance as his running mate — and, well, the rest is history.

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Florida Rep. Byron Donalds

Like Scott, Donalds, a staunch ally of the president-elect, made frequent appearances on the campaign trail with Trump, ultimately becoming something of a fixture at rallies and a surrogate at events for the now-president-elect as he attempted to court Black voters in swing states.

During a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in September, Trump praised Donalds as one of the “smart ones,” a supposed compliment that many read as a racist jab as Trump didn’t clarify who the “ones” was referring to.

“That one is smart,” Trump told the Johnstown, Pennsylvania crowd after calling their attention to the Florida Republican. “You have smart ones and then you have some that aren’t quite so good.”

In his efforts, Donalds at times took unconventional methods in spurring Black voters to action. At a “Congress, Cognac and Cigars” event in June, Donalds said during a discussion with a rightwing reporter that Black people had better lives under Jim Crow segregation, in part, because “the Black family was together” and Black people “voted more conservatively.” The lawmaker later walked these comments back.

Donalds, who was also on Trump’s shortlist (and passed over), was similarly excluded from the gamut of ardent allies the president-elect nominated to leadership roles in his administration — a curious fate to pundits who expected the Floridian to at least be considered for a senior role for all the prostrating he did for Trump in 2024.

In a November interview with CNN’s Laura Coates, Donalds said that Trump did not personally ask him to fill any Cabinet position and that he wasn’t “surprised” that he wasn’t nominated for a role. He also defended Trump from criticism that he had not then chosen any Black appointees.

“If the Cabinet picks help deliver the America First agenda that Donald Trump wants, this will be an unmitigated success, and every American will be happy with that,” Donalds said, in part, when Coates asked if he’d be satisfied if Trump didn’t select a single Black appointee.

(After Turner, the ex-lawmaker from Texas, was announced as the HUD secretary nominee, Donalds urged his colleagues in the Senate to support his confirmation.)

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North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson

Despite regularly being steeped in scandal over inflammatory remarks, the North Carolina lieutenant governor started 2024 seemingly at the top of his game. He had strong support among the MAGA base and staunch backing from top Republicans. Trump, who had previously praised him, promised him an endorsement early in the primary cycle, and the state’s Republican voters awarded him a sweeping victory in the race for the GOP gubernatorial nomination.

And then CNN dropped a bombshell report revealing yet another Robinson scandal.

In mid-September, the outlet linked Robinson to an old profile on an online porn forum that made a series of problematic posts. The user, named “Mark Robinson” with a similar handle and email to the official’s other social media accounts, called himself a “black NAZI,” expressed support for reimplementing slavery, praised Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” and described spying on women bathing in a locker room twice as a teenager, among other sexually explicit conduct.

Robinson strongly denied that he authored the posts, telling CNN, “This is not us. These are not our words. And this is not anything characteristic of me.”

“I’m not going to get into the minutia of how somebody manufactured this, these salacious tabloid lies,” added Robinson, who had repeatedly quoted Hitler while campaigning.

Still, the damage to his campaign was swift and insurmountable.

For more analysis on Black MAGA/’s 2024 losers list inclusion via the shortcomings of Scott, Donalds, and Robinson, click here.

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