“He hasn’t done that”.
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At last month’s GOP convention, the Republican National Committee’s director of Hispanic communications, Helen Aguirre Ferre, told reporters at a Spanish-language briefing that Trump had already said that he “will not do massive deportations” – despite the fact that Trump had never said so publicly. The Huffington Post was not sure which of those employees worked in Trump Tower but said usually a small fraction are located in the headquarters building. “What do you have to lose?” he asked his supporters.
Of those polled, 53 percent of Clinton’s supporters said their vote was for her and not a vote against Trump. A majority – 56 percent – of registered voters say that Trump is biased against women and minorities.
Thank you for reading and relying on TulsaWorld.com for your news and information. It is unclear whether he will address black voters directly; so far, his appeal to them has been delivered before white audiences in mostly white cities.
The 69-year-old National Basketball Association legend and author said the only 2016 Republican candidate he saw make an effort to talk directly to the black community about solutions to systemic problems like poverty and racism was Kentucky Sen.
“It’s not that I am in love with Hillary”, said Chupzi Lema, a Georgia College student from Snellville who favored Vermont Sen. “They will press him to explain where the necessary additional support is going to come from and what, realistically, he can do to attract it”.
Trump will get Latinos and blacks out to vote, said Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., but they won’t turn out to answer Trump’s call. “That fear of change has caused some of them to move things backwards. Now, we can be more aggressive on that but we want to follow the laws”, he said.
The former Los Angeles Lakers center has always been a vocal critic of Trump. On Wednesday night, however, Trump will hold a rally in Jackson, Mississippi, a city that is roughly 80% black, according to Census data.
The billionaire businessman, whose hard-line approach to immigration and fierce rhetoric propelled him to the GOP presidential nomination, insisted that he’s not “flip-flopping” on the divisive issue as he works to broaden his support 2 1/2 months before the general election.
“One, I don’t think he can win if he continues to run this kind of campaign”, Flake said. Ted Cruz once promised to rip up the “catastrophic Iranian nuclear deal”, and he and Marco Rubio both made a point of saying they would ensure the US stood firmly on Israel’s side. Suggesting that Black people will favor a classist Republican candidate who aims to shut down organizations like Black Lives Matter (and others fighting for socioeconomic equality for African-Americans over the nation’s first Black president who put several policies in place that greatly benefitted Black people) is bogus and ridiculous. “This is what you would expect from somebody with that type of ego and someone who is so narcissistic and feels so self-important”.
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“That’s where it gets confusing, because I am a Republican and I identify Republican, but he’s not what I was looking for”, she added. “So I keep writing”.
