“And that includes going where the voters are and taking the case directly to them in their churches”, she said. And don’t tell me African Americans are not smart enough to know when they’re being bamboozled or they’ve been told the truth.
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Back in 1964, the then Republican candidate Barry Goldwater agreed with the sitting president Lyndon Johnson that they would keep race out of the campaign and not exploit it for electoral purposes.
“Those events are actually being planned, and we’re very excited about them”, Kellyanne Conway told “Fox News Sunday”, acknowledging that Trump so far hasn’t held a rally in front of a largely black audience. Trump has made headlines in the last few months for having extremely low support among black voters ― as low as 0 percent in some swing states, according to a few polls.
The black unemployment rate is about 9 percent – again, too high but nothing like the impression Trump seeks to give.
With these moves, though spoken in a more measured manner than usual and with the aid of a teleprompter, Trump tried to make it clear that his immigration message is a tough as ever in a week when he spoke of a possible softening in this area as a strategy for attracting Hispanic voters.
Jackson said he wasn’t disappointed that Trump won’t be speaking directly to the voters in his congregation and that his interview was the same thing as talking with voters. Note, his campaign isn’t discussing changing his policies in order to benefit minorities nor has Trump toned down his lies about the African American community. And he reached out to us. “I think that if a man is honest about making an effort for our community, then he should at least be willing to come and visit us where we are”.
Jackson is the founder of the Impact Network, which says it’s the U.S.’s “only African-American founded and operated Christian broadcast television” network. At a rally in MS on August 23, he accused her of pandering to racial minorities, calling her “a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future”.
Donald Trump is heading to Detroit this week to visit a black church and to try to convince African Americans – and really, all voters – that he is not racist. “But there’s a lot of emotional anger tied to this, and we need to make sure that our concerns as a community are met”.
Jackson will interview Trump, privately, after service. Questions on jobs, crime, education, questions about shootings of unarmed black men. “You live in poverty”, he said. You’re schools are no good.
Trump’s visit will mark his third to MI in a little more than a month.
“What do you have to lose?” In 1973, the Justice Department sued him and his father, Fred Trump, for discriminating against African-Americans in their NY real estate business. “Banks have been – whether it’s through certain laws, Dodd-Frank, if you look at some of these laws it’s impossible for banks to loan money to anybody”, Trump said at the meeting. Nowhere is their deficit more pronounced than in Detroit which has a population that is 83% African American.
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Jackson said that he has made a “formal request” for an appearance by Clinton to her campaign but “we haven’t received a response”. And while GOP politicians haven’t pursued black voters in recent years-in fact, most fled the party five decades ago-at least mainstream Republicans didn’t hesitate to disavow an endorsement from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
