As the Washington Post pointed out, he was speaking from Diamondale, Michigan – a suburb of Lansing that is 90 minutes away from Detroit with a population that is 93 percent white.
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The billionaire visited MI for the second time in two weeks in a rally mostly focused on job creation and the state’s auto production.
Trump has suffered from dismal support among African-Americans.
Donald Trump’s third straight speech with a teleprompter painted the most alarmingly bleak picture of the condition of the African-American community – a demographic that he faces a severe deficit with – yet.
Trump, however, described the movement as “very divisive”, saying the first time he heard the term Black Lives Matter, “I said, ‘You have to be kidding”. I say it again, what do you have to lose?
Marlon Marshall, a senior member of the Democratic nominee’s campaign, criticised Trump as “painting the entire African American community as living in poverty with no jobs”.
Current polls show 2 per cent black voters in his favour.
Donald Trump made a direct appeal to African Americans Friday, asking “What do you have to lose?”
Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign on twitter responded, “This is so ignorant it’s staggering”.
“‘The Democratic Party has failed and betrayed the African-American community”, O’Reilly said Thursday in the opening of “The O’Reilly Factor”.
Jacqueline added that African-Americans have been essentially conditioned to vote for Democrats. The Trump campaign is battling for support in the industrial Midwest.
Trump noted the GOP’s ties to Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president and the chief executive who issued the proclamation freeing slaves, and said, “I want our party to be a home of the African-American voter once again”. “I believe he is a guy who does what he says he is going to do”, she said.
In his speech, Trump alleged that the Democrats have just taken advantage of their votes.
And a white Trump supporter in North Carolina was charged with assault after video surfaced of him sucker-punching a black protester who was being carried out of a March Trump rally by police.
Michaela Nelson, a 17-year-old first-time voter in MI, told BuzzFeed News she wasn’t convinced by Trump’s indictment of the Democratic party and plan for black communities.
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“We can not fix our problems by relying on the same politicians who created our problems in the first place”, Donald Trump told a rally in Dimondale, MI., a suburb of Lansing in the southwestern part of the state.
