Trump will also record an interview with Detroit Bishop Wayne T. Jackson to be broadcast on local television. “And his Saturday interview with Jackson on the church’s Impact Network – which will not be open to the public or the news media – won’t air for at least a week after the event”.
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Jackson said that he has made a “formal request” for an appearance by Clinton to her campaign but “we haven’t received a response”.
Clinton is accused by Trump of doing political favors for some of the people who donated money to her family’s foundation when she was in office from 2009 to 2013.
“His candidacy has stirred up a lot of emotions with people saying he’s a racist and people saying, “I don’t want to hear him” and ‘How could you bring him here, ‘” Jackson said.
“I am going to protest him even coming here, him even asking for black African-American voters, Latino votes, or anyone else for that matter”, Rideout said in the interview.
Saturday’s appearance, trumpeted by the campaign as an opportunity for the candidate to “answer questions that are relevant to the African-American community” and get a glimpse of the “heart and compassion Mr. Trump has for all Americans”, was meant to silence those criticisms. But before Trump mingles with worshipers at Great Faith Ministries on Saturday, he will be welcomed by a protest organized by a black pastor critical of the presidential candidate. “This is an opportunity for a dialogue”.
Jackson said his first question to Trump will be about whether he is Christian.
Jackson, who identified himself as a Democrat and said he is undecided on how he’ll vote in November, said that he believes it is “important that Mr. Trump be able to speak to our community and be able to lay out his plan for our community”.
Trump’s message “has not connected”.
“What do you have to lose by trying something new, like Trump? he asked”.
Trump’s visit will mark his third to MI in a little more than a month.
Why Does Donald Trump Refuse to Talk Directly to African American Audiences?
According to the poll conducted by Public Policy Polling and released on Tuesday, the NY businessman’s favorability rating among black voters stands at zero percent, while in a separate poll earlier this month US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton enjoyed an indisputably colossal lead with 91 percent of black support. In fact, 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney failed to gain a single vote in more than 30 precincts in the city. He gave a speech on the economy to the Detroit Economic Club this month and was in Dimondale last week.Clinton gave a jobs and economy speech in Warren and attended a fund-raiser in Birmingham this month.
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Donald Trump called Hillary Clinton a bigot. She also spoke at the NAACP’s Fight for Freedom dinner in Detroit in May and made stops at Detroit churches before the March 8 presidential primary in MI.
