Additional details have not yet been released by the Trump campaign.
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Last week, a new Pew election survey found Clinton leading Trump nationwide by four points overall, but by 17 points – 46 percent to 29 percent – among voters 30 through 49.
While Hillary Clinton has already spoken to the NAACP’s annual gathering, along with events sponsored by the Urban League and the National Association of Black Journalists, Trump has not.
Donald Trump is scheduled on Wednesday to appear in Jackson, Mississippi, an 80 percent African-American city and capital of the state with the nation’s highest proportion of black residents, the AP reported, noting that it’s “unclear whether he will address black voters directly” since his outreach effort so far has been delivered before white audiences in mostly white cities.
If the presidential election were held today, Clinton has a 95 percent chance of beating Trump and becoming America’s first female president, the poll showed.
“So Black folks calm down – this ain’t about us”, Martin said. “He doesn’t want to talk to us, he wants to ignore us”.
Clinton, the 68-year-old Senator from NY, is leading Trump by considerable margin in several U.S. polls. He noted that two million more Latinos will vote this year than in 2012, calling them the “mosaic of America”. “What the hell do you have to lose?“.
In Philadelphia, Bennett said, “It’s insane to think that he would have the audacity to ask us what we have to lose”. About 83 percent of Detroit residents are African-American or black, and almost 40 percent of Detroit residents live below the federal poverty line, according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau.
But they said Trump shouldn’t just make the appeal at his rallies, which have almost all-white audiences and often are held in majority white communities. Trump says blacks have nothing to lose in supporting him, arguing that Democratic policies saddle black Americans with bad schools, crime-ridden streets and no economic opportunities.
Trump has aides dedicated to African-American outreach.
“At least we’re having the conversation”, Bell said.
“I will be able to make sure that whenever you walk down the street in your inner city or wherever you are, you’re not going to be shot”.
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He has also scheduled an event for August 25 billed as a roundtable with black and Latino leaders invited to his NY offices, and his aides say he is considering more rallies in heavily minority cities in swing states.
