Byron Donalds, the incoming congressman from Florida’s 19th Congressional District, credits President Donald Trump’s gains with Black voters to his “swag” and said Republican House members will need to channel that attitude to effectively take on the House Democratic Squad, Fox News informed.
Trump made inroads with the Black community not just because of pre-coronavirus economic gains, but also because of his confident nature, Donalds said.
“In the Black community, swag is a factor,” Donalds told Fox News. “Love him or hate him, the man’s got swag. He knows what he wants. He doesn’t apologize for it. And he’s going to go get it.”
Donalds, in Washington for congressional orientation, said he’s looking forward to offering a countervailing argument to Democratic socialism championed by the Squad and its prominent member, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., who has garnered political star power thanks, in part, to her outspokenness and social media following.
He mused that a GOP counter group should have a cool name, like Voltron or the Thundercats — a nod to the action figures — but first, he needs to see if his fellow Republicans could pull it off.
“I gotta see if my colleagues have enough swag to do that,” Donalds quipped. “I love my colleagues, but you know swag is the thing. If you want to have, you know, credibility in the street. You got to be able to walk the walk.”
Donalds, 42, has experience with charting his own path.
Raised in inner-city Brooklyn by a single mom, Donalds moved to Florida to attend Florida State University and to start a career in financial services and commercial banking. He won his southwest Florida district running as a pro-Trump conservative who touted his faith and family for getting him on the right path.
“I’m everything the fake news media tells you doesn’t exist: a strong Trump-supporting, gun-owning, liberty-loving, pro-life, politically incorrect Black man,” Donalds says in one campaign ad.
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