“In 4 years, I guarantee you, I will get more than 95% of the African-American vote”. At the MI rally, Trump said if he were elected president, he could get “over 95% of the African-American vote” at the end of his first term, “because I will produce”.
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An opinion poll released by NBC News/Wall Street Journal on Thursday shows Clinton enjoys an indisputably colossal lead in African-American votes over Trump.
Democrats were quick to denounce Trump’s comments in MI, with Democratic National Committee official Brandon Davis on Saturday saying Trump “has shown little interest engaging the black community and his comments underscore just how out of touch he is with the African American community”.
That was awkward. The headline of a Washington Post analytical piece caught it well: “It’s hard to imagine a much worse pitch Donald Trump could have made for the black vote”.
In the first day the Daybreak poll’s results were published, black voter support for Trump was at 4.6 percent. Obama won roughly 93 percent of black voters in his re-election campaign in 2012.
While African Americans have overwhelmingly identified as Democrats since the 1950s, Trump’s presidential bid has reached new lows. “I will fix it”, Trump said.
“She would rather provide a job to a refugee living overseas than a young unemployed African-American youth in Virginia”, he said.
The most generous polling number with African-Americans for Trump out there is 1% nationally.
“What do you have to lose?” he asked black voters, speaking to a mostly white audience.
He added, “The Democratic Party has failed and betrayed the African-American community”.
The New York billionaire, whose controversial run for the presidency has attracted white supremacists, alienated immigrants and done little to win over minorities, said blacks were living in poverty facing disproportionately high unemployment rates and without good schools.
On several occasions, African-American protesters have been assaulted by Trump supporters at rallies.
Trump met with the council on Saturday, to work toward focusing his message.
Clinton wasted no time to hop on social media and oppose Trump’s offensive words, tweeting, “This is so ignorant it’s staggering”.
Earlier Saturday in NY, he met with his new National Hispanic Advisory Council for Trump, which will work to help him to focus his message, as well as provide assistance with the campaign’s Hispanic outreach.
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Trump, however, described the movement as “very divisive”, saying the first time he heard the term Black Lives Matter, “I said, ‘You have to be kidding”.
