Early Wednesday, Trump announced that he was overhauling his operation, bringing in a new chief executive and appointing a new campaign manager. He boasted that he could win 95% of the African-American vote, and promptly fell into a Hillary Clinton trap.
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On the August 17 edition of FOX News’ “The O’Reilly Factor”, host Bill O’Reilly tries to persuade Black voters to vote for Donald Trump in November.
But in the same speech here, he again slammed an order by the state’s Democratic governor, Terry McAuliffe, to restore voting rights to some convicted felons who have completed their sentences, a move McAuliffe says could help African-Americans who were disproportionally affected by laws that put lifetime bans on felons.
During a campaign rally in Dimondale, Michigan, on Friday in which the real-estate mogul urged African-Americans to vote for him, Trump asked rhetorically, “What the hell do you have to lose?”.
Bill O’Reilly noted that Donald Trump was referring to the economic conditions that have not improved for African-Americans under President Obama.
Clinton’s campaign, meanwhile, brushed the speech off as just words he read from a teleprompter. Those peddling the narrative of cops as a racist force in our society – a narrative supported with a nod by my opponent – share directly in the responsibility for the unrest in Milwaukee, and many other places within our country.
O’Reilly was frustrated as to why the African-American community couldn’t see why the Democrats haven’t helped them at all.
Among Mr Trump’s signature campaign proposals has been a promise to build a wall along the border with Mexico to keep out undocumented immigrants, and to make Mexico pay for it. And 91 percent of African-Americans held an unfavorable view of the Republican.
The Trump campaign has generally avoided reaching out to black citizens directly. It will be tough for Clinton to replicate that sort of turnout in November, although alarm about Trump could motivate voters of color even if they are not inspired by Clinton.
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The meeting with the National Hispanic Advisory Council came as Trump has struggled to attract minority voters, particularly Hispanics, and after a week in which he made major changes to his campaign leadership and struck a more conciliatory tone on the trail. It hadn’t been injected into the general election previously because there was no need for it.
