“Over the years, thousands and thousands of Hispanics have worked for me”.
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“The rioting must be ended and ended now”, the Republican presidential nominee said during a campaign rally at a film soundstage near Philadelphia. “Crime and violence is an attack on the poor, and will never be accepted in a Trump Administration”, he said at the beginning of remarks.
Donald Trump has faced criticism after declaring that African Americans are “in the worst shape they’ve ever been”, in a town named after a slaveholder. However, polls of African-American voters do not suggest this, with Politico reporting that among black voters, Trump often polls in the single digits, and at other times he even registers zero percent support.
During a speech in Kenansville, North Carolina on Tuesday, Donald Trump lamented that black communities are in the worst shape ever – “ever ever”.
The president encouraged Clinton, whom he said will be an “outstanding president”, to use the debate as a venue to not only talk about policy, but also what has inspired her to carry on in the face of adversity. This time, Trump took his “what do you got to lose?” message to Cleveland, a battleground state, where he and his supporters took to New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights for a weird press event that featured boxing promoter Don King dropping the n-word, all while Trump and his supports laughed and smirked. “But when you have 3,000 people shot and so many people dying, I mean, it’s worse than some of the places we’re hearing about like Afghanistan”, he said.
At the same time, Mahoning County, Ohio, chair Kathy Miller, a campaign volunteer, came under fire after telling the Guardian newspaper, “I don’t think there was any racism until Obama got elected”.
Trump condemned violent protesters during several speeches Thursday and called for national unity, but during his daylong swing through the state he did not directly address intense concerns among black Americans about systemic police discrimination. They say, ‘Donald, you brought something up to the fore that is so brilliant and so fantastic’. “But we’ve got a museum for him to visit, so he can tune in”.
In harsh rebuke of Trump, Obama referred to the businessman as “somebody who has fought against civil rights and fought against equality and who has shown no regard for working people most of his life”. “It’s like ‘wow, here we go again, ‘” Trump said of the protests, noting that he was “not overly surprised” about what went on.
Both presidential candidates are courting minority voters with Election Day less than seven weeks away. “I don’t know what she was thinking but I’m very, very troubled by that”, Trump said, calling it a “terrible situation”.
According to federal data, African-Americans have made major strides economically and educationally in recent years.
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Clinton responded on the campaign trail, first lamenting that there were “two more names to add to a list of African-Americans killed by police officers”, referring to Scott and to Terence Crutcher, who was killed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on September 16.
