Ex-KKK leader David Duke has more black voter support than Trump

Donald Trump’s numbers among black voters are so low, he’s doing worse than a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard.

David Duke, the notorious former KKK leader, had a 14% approval rating among black voters for his U.S. Senate run, the University of New Orleans’ Survey Research Center reported in its findings.

While Duke’s 14% is still low, it makes Trump’s microscopic support from black voters look even smaller.


The Republican presidential candidate has only been able to muster a measly 1% of black voter’s support, according to the latest NBC/Wall Street Journal polling.

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, who is running for U.S. Senate in Louisiana, had 14% black voter support.(MAX BECHERER/AP)

In key battleground states, like Ohio and Pennsylvania, Trump actually polled at 0% heading into the Republican National Convention.

While Duke has been a known racist for decades now, Trump has been catching up himself, earning the ire of Paul Ryan in June for comments the house speaker called “the textbook definition of racist.”

Trump had also called himself the "least racist person on Earth" in November, after he retweeted a controversial image with bogus statistics that lied about the number of "whites killed by blacks."

Donald Trump only had 1% of black voters support, according to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released on Thursday. (DARREN HAUCK/GETTY IMAGES)

Despite Duke’s long history of racism and bigotry, it doesn’t seem to have affected his black voters support as much as it has for Trump.

Duke, a convicted felon who described the Black Lives Matter movement as a “terrorist organization” when announcing his candidacy, is a notorious white supremacist, throwing his full support behind Trump’s campaign.

The racist candidate has crossed paths with Trump before, after the billionaire failed to denounce the former KKK leader’s endorsement.

Louisiana’s Republicans have spoken out against Duke’s Senate campaign, calling him a “hate-filled fraud who does not embody the values of the Republican party,” Roger Villere, chairman of the state’s GOP said in a statement.