Trump directly accused Clinton of “bigotry” for seeing blacks only as voters; and he said the African-American community has been taken for granted for decades by the Democratic Party.
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Trump headed to Milwaukee to support police today, days after violence and unrest from a police-involved shooting of an black man.
At the Milwaukee campaign rally later on Tuesday, Mr Trump said the lack of effective policing was doing a disservice to African-American communities who were being hurt by violence in their neighbourhoods.
Along with his law and order message, Trump also weaved in talking points about immigration and jobs, and how those issues impact the African-American community.
Trump also accused Clinton of keeping bias towards people of colour and viewing them as mere voters. He said anti-police critics, and Clinton, “share directly in the responsibility for the unrest in Milwaukee and many other places within our country”.
“She is against the police, believe me”, Trump said.
Revealing the news, Mr Trump said: “I’ve known both of them for a long time“.
Trump spoke at 10:07 p.m., three hours after the event’s scheduled start time.
“I was thinking the other day when Donald Trump speaks, he speaks about fear, he speaks about such negative and such pessimism, and then I watch the Olympics and it is exactly the opposite”, Clinton said. He informed spectators to not take anything for granted during election season.
But Trump has more ground to make up with African-American voters than any Republican nominee in recent history, drawing just 1% of the African-American vote in a recent NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll in the battleground states of OH and Pennsylvania.
Mr Trump held a roundtable discussion on Tuesday afternoon with Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke and Inspector Edward Bailey – but news media representatives were escorted out and not permitted to hear the discussions. Instead, he met with police officers and attended fundraisers.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks in Youngstown, Ohio, on August 15, 2016.
Diving deeper into the numbers, PPP found that Trump’s lead is based primarily with his support from seniors who prefer him 63-33 percent over Clinton.
Trump began his visit to the city with a meeting with local law enforcement officers at the Milwaukee County War Memorial Center on Lake Michigan. “If it is true, people shouldn’t be rioting”, he added.
The online poll shows Clinton with 50.67 percent to Trump’s 44.19 percent in Monday’s data.
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“Someone said we don’t win anymore”. “I don’t want to seem racist or nothing, but the black heritage has been raised in a certain way that there’s no incentive to get out and work, because all of a sudden you have five kids and there are no dads around”.
