Many minority voters have found Mr Trump’s dire description of their lives to be condescending – and African American community leaders have dismissed his message, delivered largely in front of predominantly white rally audiences – as more meant to reassure undecided white voters that he is not racist than actually help communities of colour.
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She told him: “People say, Mr. Trump, that you have no African-American support”.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as he leaves after a meeting with African American business and civic leaders in Philadelphia, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016.
GOP congressional candidates used the same argument late in the 1996 campaign, when GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole headed toward defeat against Democratic President Bill Clinton. He’s now polling a dismal 2 percent of support among African- American voters.
The African-American electorate traditionally leans heavily Democratic.
But on all those questions, there are significant variations based on race and ethnicity.
Fifty-four percent of blacks said “Increasing border security and controlling immigration” is an important problem, almost identical to the number of whites (56 percent).
We need a targeted program to rebuild our inner cities.
Renee Amoore, a local business leader, said Trump has support in the community, despite polls showing otherwise, saying “Pennsylvania has your back, and Philly in particular”, and thanked him for “coming to the ‘hood”. Each of those groups is closely divided on which candidate would better handle securing the border. Toney said he has not decided who to support, but will not be voting for Trump.
“It’s insulting and offensive that Donald Trump thinks one church appearance will undo the divisive undertone of his campaign”, said Rollins, a native of Benton Harbor. Trump, as he has throughout the campaign and this week, stressed that he will deport those in the country illegally with criminal records.
McCain’s 5-minute video, posted on his campaign website and social media, does not mention Trump by name. Young people across racial and ethnic groups favor creating a pathway to citizenship for otherwise law-abiding immigrants who are now living in the country illegally.
OH is a wild card: Obama drove up African-Americans’ share of the electorate there from 11 percent in 2008 to 15 percent in 2012, with the increase accounting for more than his eventual margin of victory over Romney.
“(It’s a) setup. I don’t want to attack apostle Jackson in this thing.
“We need help – and we need somebody who’s going to be in that office who is not going to give us more broken promises”. “I truly, truly thank you from the bottom of my heart”, she said.
And during his year-long campaign, Donald Trump has courted the votes of white nationalist groups and other organizations founded on anti-black, anti-immigrant bigotry. Sixty-one percent of all young adults, including 66 percent of whites, 65 percent of Asian-Americans, and 57 percent of African-Americans, say they support increasing government spending on security and enforcement at USA borders. He said: “If Secretary Clinton is elected president, I hope we find common ground as to how to progress as a nation”. “I don’t value that as a goal”.
“I came here to express my First Amendment rights, peacefully”, Lambert told police. That includes 64 percent of young people overall, 59 percent of whites, 63 percent of African-Americans, 76 percent of Asians and 75 percent of Latinos. After Obama packs his bags and swaggers off into the horizon, I could nearly hear the rest of the country warming up for another round of the infantile game.
The Great Recession in 2008-09 dealt another blow to Michigan’s working-class population, said Brad Herschbein, an economist for the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo.
The poll of 1,958 adults age 18-30 was conducted August 1-14 using a sample drawn from the probability-based GenForward panel, which is created to be representative of the US young adult population.
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The survey was paid for by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago, using grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
