Reps. Jasmine Crockett and Hank Johnson suggested on a live stream that President Donald Trump is trying to bring back slavery. (Getty)
"It’s a recipe to make education unavailable to Black people," Johnson said about Trump’s plans for education policy. "It puts us back to when America was ‘great’ and we were picking cotton and doing the productivity that they’re putting my Latino brothers and sisters who migrate here to do that work because we are not suited intellectually to do it anymore."
"But they would have us back, confined to doing that kind of work. We gotta watch out for where we are headed. It’s the people that will save our democracy that will stop this movement toward the past that Trump has us hurtling towards."
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Rep. Henry "Hank" Johnson (D-Ga.) questions Intelligence Committee Minority Counsel Stephen Castor and Intelligence Committee Majority Counsel Daniel Goldman during the House impeachment inquiry hearings. (DOUG MILLS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
Crockett has become one of the most prominent faces of the Democrat pushback against Elon Musk’s DOGE efforts and recently said that if she could say anything to Musk it would be, "F--- off."
The comments from Crockett and Johnson were made just a few months after Trump made historic strides with Black voters at the ballot box in November.
A Fox News Voter Analysis showed Trump's crossover appeal to Democratic constituencies was foundational to his success. He improved on his 2020 numbers among Hispanics (41%, +6 points), Black voters (15%, +7 points) and young voters (46%, +10 points).
These rightward shifts were particularly notable among Hispanic men (+8 points), Black men (+12 points) and men under 30 (+14 points) from 2020.
Trump's strength with Black voters was felt in Anson County, North Carolina, where the Republican candidate won there for the first time since the 1970s and only the second time in more than 100 years. Trump received 50.9% of the vote compared to 48.2% for then-Vice President Kamala Harris. Black residents make up 47% of the population in Anson County.
Fox News Digital's Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
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