But as Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron reports, the plug wasn’t without some awkward moments.
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Don King introduced Donald Trump at a Cleveland Heights church Wednesday morning.
Trump is still polling in the single digits with black voters. They didn’t want us to go in the store and purchase anything.
He began by informing the crowd that he would not use the “n-word” during this portion of the speech. “If you’re intelligent and intellectual, you’re an intellectual negro”. If you’re a dancing and sliding and gliding [expletive] – I mean negro, you’re a dancing and sliding and gliding negro. “But if you’re rich, you’re a rich negro”. “You are going to be a negro ’til you die”. We need Donald Trump, especially Black people. But he said law enforcement was also troubled by the police-involved shootings, adding, “People that choke, people that do that, maybe they can’t be doing what they’re doing”.
Trump, who was already smirking as he listened to King, didn’t change the expression on his face, but turned slightly uncomfortably to his special counsel Michael Cohen and the church’s pastor, Darrell Scott, who head up Trump’s diversity coalition. In Cleveland, Trump reiterated his plans to help inner cities rebuild and asked African-Americans to consider voting for him. She planned a speech focused on how the economy can work for people with disabilities, an implicit poke at Trump’s much-publicized mocking of a disabled journalist during a rally a year ago.
He deflected a question about his use of the N-word.
King also mentioned in his weird speech that he believes all white women should vote for Trump, in an attempt to steal votes away from Hillary Clinton.
In a Virginia downpour, Pence hailed the commitment of Trump supporters. And I will fix it.
On worldwide policy – as the UN General Assembly unfolded in New York City over the last few days – Trump seemed to side with Russian Federation by ignoring a formal invitation to meet with Ukrainian President Petro Poreshenko, who opposes Russia’s annexation of Crimea.
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With 47 days left, Clinton has outspent Trump by more than five to one. In August, she raised $60 million, her biggest one-month haul yet.
