GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump arrived in North Philadelphia on Friday as protesters gathered outside a church venue where he was to meet privately with African-American voters – stirring visible unwelcome for the GOP presidential nominee in the City of Brotherly Love. “Trump’s answers apparently prepared in advance by advisers to keep him in check”.
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Sources close to the Trump Campaign have confirmed to Eyewitness News that Trump will be in Philadelphia during the afternoon.
Jackson also vehemently denied Friday that Trump’s campaign would edit the interview or the transcript.
“He has made statements and his statements are that I want to make the black community better”, Jackson told CNN. “.Once we have the interview, we will show it raw, like it is”. Team Trump requested them ahead of time, which isn’t uncommon for events like this one.
According to the New York Times, the Trump campaign has left little to chance in the Q & A with the bishop.
The script shows a prewritten question from Bishop Jackson asking Trump whether his campaign is racist. So far, his main pitch to the African-American community is that they have “nothing to lose” in switching their partisan loyalties, since all black people “have no jobs” and can’t “walk down the street” without getting shot.
“Anybody, first of all, should be able to come to church”, Jackson said. He went on to say, “You’re living in poverty”.
Trump’s comments came as the GOP nominee visited the heavily Democratic city in a bid to catch Hillary Clinton in a state vital to the presidential race.
Critics of Trump’s campaign tell a different story.
“People say, Mr. Trump, that you have no African-American support”.
In an emotional exchange, Shagla Hightower said her daughters’ killers “should have never been here” and praised Trump for giving her daughter recognition. “Donald Trump has no idea what he’s talking about”.
Media outlets have been barred from the meeting, which will not be aired until next week on Jackson’s Christian television channel, The Impact Network. The exact locations weren’t disclosed. “And then when it’s all said and done, then let the people decide”.
A Detroit minister, Bishop Corletta Vaughn, senior pastor of Holy Ghost Cathedral, said Mr. Trump “does not embody the core values that our communities and MI families hold dear”.
“If you know anything about Mr. Trump, it’s that he will want the opportunity to take his vision and message of opportunity directly to the people on Saturday”, Mr Miller said.
Another group of clergy also is planning a separate protest rally Saturday outside the church. Free food and music are being offered.
She told him: “People say, Mr. Trump, that you have no African-American support”.
But the church leader said that in light of The New York Times report, he had changed some of his questions and has some undisclosed inquiries. 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. 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.
“I can’t even understand why the church would host him here”, said Derwin Ridley, 57, of North Philadelphia.
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“I’m like a lot of Americans who think the best candidates are not running”, he said.
