The African-American vote hasn’t always been Democratic.
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A recent NBC News/Survey Monkey poll found just 8 percent of African Americans would vote for Trump.
Trump met with a group of campaign-chosen supporters, who insisted that he has backing in the black community, although polls show the numbers are negligible. White Democrats and Republicans have historically not done that. John McCain. In 2012, the black vote was 98% for Obama to 2% for Mitt Romney. There were dozens of polling precincts – mostly in Detroit – where not a single vote was cast for Romney in 2012. “And they were questions that I feel African-Americans need to know”. Trump was a leader of the so-called “birther” movement, questioning whether Obama was a US citizen. This comes after Trump asked black voters “what do you have to lose?” in voting for him.
“I’ve nearly tuned him out”.
“As I went through my life, things got busy with business, but my family kept me grounded to the truth and the word of God”, Trump has been told to say. African-Americans have achieved success in every facet of American life.
When #Donald Trump announced his candidacy for president, he instantly appealed to white conservatives when he referred to illegal immigrants from Mexico as “murderers” and “rapists”.
Trump is scheduled to speak Saturday at a predominantly African-American church in Detroit.
The document includes the exact wording of answers the aides are proposing for Mr. Trump to give to questions about police killings, racial tension and the perception among many black voters that he and the Republican Party are racist, among other topics. He adds that he’s working the Trump campaign and that they reached out to him.
Appearing on CNN, Jackson pushed back against the idea that the interview with Trump would be inauthentic, and said that it was a normal move for him when participating in political events.
“It’s kind of like holding a cherry bomb. They have no idea of the effect of these people coming in, and they shouldn’t be here”. “But that’s not the template for this visit”.
Calvin Tucker, a GOP delegate and member of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, was scheduled to introduce the candidate.At the end of the meeting, he thanked Trump “for being courageous enough to come” to North Philadelphia. “I truly, truly thank you from the bottom of my heart”, she said. Barnett asks. “At least Donald Trump is addressing these issues”. “But if we don’t sit down to talk to him, we’ll never know what his policies are”. “This community is African-American, it’s Arab, it’s Hispanic. Over his entire campaign he hasn’t expressed any interest in that particular group”. We must make sure that access, affordability and accountability are brought into our higher education system. “But I think their concern is that you’re going to have a lot of people coming in there and having intense fellowship or protesters”. “What has Barack Obama really done for black people?”. Black people can discern what’s real and what’s not. “And people just are not clamoring to help her”. Ben Carson, his former campaign rival-turned-advisor who grew up in Detroit. “I have the attitude that she is the lesser of two evils”.
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Trump will make his way to Detroit, Michigan on Saturday, and attend service at Great Faith Ministries International.
