According to a recent NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll in the battleground states of OH and Pennsylvania, Trump is drawing just 1% of the African American vote.
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And Robby Mook, Clinton’s campaign manager, pointed to Clinton’s support for criminal justice reform and multiple campaign speeches dedicated to race relations as evidence of her commitment to issues dear to African-American voters. Trump has been repeatedly called a “bigot” by his Democratic opponents.
“I’m asking for the vote of every African-American citizen struggling in our country today that wants a different and much better future”, Trump said during a speech in Milwaukee.
Protesters marched in Milwaukee last weekend following the shooting death of Sylville Smith as he fled from police. But news media representatives were escorted out and not permitted to hear the discussions. That took place the weekend before the start of the Republican convention, and was also held in OH – in Cincinnati, in fact.
Trump also taped a town hall meeting with Fox News, in which he blamed President Obama for what he sees as hostility toward police.
“I watched this speech with alarm in my heart”, he said of Trump’s speech.
However, Trump, who has notably refused to speak to African American groups like the National Urban League and the NAACP, chose to deliver the speech in West Bend, Wisconsin, a 95 percent white community where only about one in 100 residents is African American. He spoke before an nearly entirely White audience.
The New Yorker said the Democrats have taken advantage of African American voters for decades.
Earlier this year, she was met by Black Lives Matter protesters during a fundraiser SC confronting Clinton over her comments about youth “super-predators” in a 1996 speech on violent crime.
In addition to having never reached out to the black community until now, she said, one of Trump’s biggest problems is his campaign slogan. When his ties to the Kremlin came under scrutiny, he absurdly claimed that Hillary was the one who was too close to Putin.
‘You have to think of what people think when they see the phrase “Make America Great Again”‘.
Trump also took aim at Clinton’s past acceptance of large speaking fees, saying he would force top administration officials to sign a pledge not to accept speaking fees from corporations with registered lobbyists or foreign countries for five years after leaving office.
“There is a way to talk to African Americans about the problems that we have”, Jones began.
After days of riots over the police shooting of an armed African-American man rocked the city of Milwaukee, some 40 miles away, Trump told the overwhelmingly white crowd, “Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, the violent disruptor”.
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In his speech Tuesday night, Trump echoed earlier GOP politicians who have made a detailed litany of the troubles facing African American neighborhoods part of their pitch to their largely white constituencies. “This is why you have this scenario playing out where the narrative is that Trump could give two craps about blacks, which is just not true”.
