“He’s best for not only for the country but certainly the black community”, Pastor Steve Parson, a Richmond-area minister in Virginia said.
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Although he couldn’t provide an official count, Scott did say that there were a number of pastors who endorsed Trump. The billionaire reality TV star said he couldn’t have mocked Kovaleski because he had never seen him. “And the 100 that went in there walked away with nothing, they did it for free”, he said.
Although Trump has expressed confidence that he can woo black voters, a majority of whom are registered Democrats, a Quinnipiac University poll released in August showed that he is far from a hit with African-Americans.
Once the list of those black ministers allegedly endorsing Trump was made public, there was even more skepticism – some from the ministers themselves.
The group reportedly addressed various issues that are of concern to African Americans including the high unemployment rate in the Black community and police brutality. He added, “I support Donald Trump and everybody knows that”.
When Martin told him that the tax code is already set up like that, Parson’s response was “You said it. If that’s the way it is, then that’s the way it is”. “So what will happen is they’ll say, ‘Oh, Trump is chicken,”‘ he stated.
Last week, his campaign initially trumpeted the event, calling it a meeting with “a coalition of 100 African-American Evangelical pastors and religious leaders who will endorse the GOP front-runner after a private meeting”.
“They accused Mr. Trump of being an insulting individual but they’ve levied insults at us that I wouldn’t levy against people I hate”, Scott said. Still, he said, “I haven’t heard anybody say I absolutely won’t vote for him”. “[And] maybe I don’t do well, and maybe my real polls, which are the polls we’re leading by so much, maybe they go down”.
Couzens also asked Trump to apologize for a Tweet that incorrectly stated blacks commit the most of the homicides with white victims.
Trump, along with Ben Carson, also threatened to back out of the CNBC debate in late October if it wasn’t shortened to two hours total.
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Trump’s recent events have sometimes taken on a darker tone, with violent clashes between supporters and protesters and angry tirades against reporters in the room.
