Look how much African-American communities have suffered under Democratic control.
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“If you keep voting for the same people, you will keep getting exactly the same result”, BBC quoted Trump as saying.
And he painted a dismal role of life for African-Americans in the workforce, declaring that, in cities like Detroit, they “have become refugees in their own country”. Hillary Clinton quickly delivered a dose of reality to Trump.
Trump also predicted he would receive 95% of the African-American vote if he went to on to run for a second term in 2020. Obama won roughly 93 percent of black voters in his re-election campaign in 2012.
The billionaire businessman has found strong support.
Trump has spent the week appealing to African-American voters in his speeches, saying he would fix poverty in ways that Democrats have been unable to since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House.
Nevertheless, the strategy of Mr Trump perplexed many commentators on Twitter in courting these voters.
Although the suburb just outside Lansing is overwhelmingly white, Trump made an appeal to black voters.
“Trump’s “Black outreach” so tone deaf & condescending, his “Hispanic outreach”, (eating a taco bowl), unexpectedly not that poor & dumb”.
Previously on Friday, Mr Trump declared that a veteran political operative who directed his effort for the previous three months, Paul Manafort, had stepped down.
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“Paul Manafort’s resignation is a clear admission that the disturbing connections between Donald Trump’s team and pro-Kremlin elements in Russian Federation and Ukraine are untenable”, Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said in a statement.
