“Any minority who would vote for him is insane, ought to have their head examined”, said Ike Jenkins, an 81-year-old retired business owner in the predominantly black suburb of East Cleveland. “You can not win without women, Asians, Latinos, African Americans”.
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At a campaign rally in Jackson, Mississippi, Wednesday night, Trump insisted any immigration policy pass three broad tests: It must improve jobs and wages for USA citizens; must improve citizens’ safety and security; and improve citizens’ quality of life. The truth is that Trump’s minority outreach is a ploy to solidify his racist bona fides with the white supremacist sect and attempt to soften the glaring racism among non-committed white voters and he’s doing it by insulting Black Americans.
Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, said he appreciated that Trump has sought and taken advice from rank-and-file border agents.
Clinton said Wednesday in a CNN interview that Trump “is taking a hate movement mainstream”. Berg said he’s an outlier: an undecided black Republican. Trump said the Clinton attacks were not only an assault on him, but on all his supporters – people, he said, who want strong borders and security.
The stats he quotes when he appeals to black voters while speaking to predominantly white crowds are like most things he says – wrong. He said the 600,000 Latino-owned businesses in Florida would benefit under his economic plan, but he offered few specifics.
Trump, who also met Thursday in NY with members of a new Republican Party initiative meant to train young – and largely minority – volunteers, has been working to win over blacks and Latinos in light of his past inflammatory comments and has taken to claiming that the Democrats have taken minority voters’ support for granted.
Obama won 93 percent of black voters in 2012 and 95 percent in 2008, according to exit polls.
Then, as a heavy downpour began, Trump ducked inside the RV to shake more hands.
The gist of Trump’s “outreach” speeches to African Americans, those delivered exclusively to groups of white people is: You’re stupid, your schools suck, you live in poverty, you’re lazy, you’re inherently violent, and your communities are a breeding ground for your miserable worthless lives; “So what the Hell do you have to lose?”.
His hollow words are nothing more than the usual generic national election Republican rhetoric that is tossed in the direction of black people. He says until Mexico pays up, the USA will increase visa and border crossing fees, impound all remittance payments from immigrants here illegally, and possibly increase tariffs or cut foreign aid.
In Ohio, he insisted without evidence that foreign “war zones” are “safer than living in some of our inner cities”.
Trump says that if he’s elected, he’ll make sure everyone can walk down the street without being shot.
Donald Trump says the Republican-run Congress should return to session to “approve whatever’s necessary” to combat the Zika virus.
And he says that, “People who speak out against radical Islam, and who warn about refugees, are not Islamophobes”.
Pete Meachum, Trump’s Wisconsin state director, was asked on the conference call if it was appropriate to have Wink and Dieck involved. It is known that Conway has been close to this “softening” but can or will Trump really “soften”. He said “we have to be, we have no choice”.
The billionaire said he is open to “softening” his stance because he isn’t “looking to hurt people”.
Meanwhile, one of Trump’s most reliable allies made plans to aid him this fall.
But two other members have a more checkered past. James Smith, a 79-year-old former butcher, points out the window and laments “a community that’s old and poor”. “They keep saying it”.
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Clinton was set to hit back on Thursday afternoon in Nevada, a state with a heavy Hispanic population, with a speech that a top aide said would criticize Trump’s “divisive and dystopian vision”.
