Trump has made a few speeches in which he addresses his very bad deficit with minority voters, but his actions speak much louder than his words: He recently hired far-far-right media executive Stephen Bannon to lead his campaign, which released an advertisement last week that makes immigrants look like an invading swarm of sub-humans, and he continues to parrot an incorrect unemployment statistic about African American youth, wildly inflating the number by counting full-time students and other groups justifiably out of the labor force. And the hurdle for gaining the black vote is Everest steep: 4 in 5 black people have a very unfavorable view of Trump, only 6 percent would be “comfortable” with him as president, and some polls in OH have shown zero percent of blacks ready to vote Trump.
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“And his optimistic view about 2020 when he’s running for reelection, that’s pure Donald Trump”.
At a rally Friday night in Dimondale, Mich., Donald Trump repeated a version of a plea to black voters that he’d offered 24 hours earlier in Charlotte, N.C.
A national Fox News poll of Latino voters this month showed Clinton holding a 46-point advantage over Trump.
It’s likely that Trump’s continuing lack of meaningful outreach to black voters keeps him from understanding effective ways of arguing his case.
“I’m African American and I just say stop going for history”, she said.
“What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump?” he asked of blacks. He also hammered away on a message than MI manufacturing is in the dumps, just days after Gov. Rick Snyder – also a Republican – noted that unemployment in the state has dropped to its lowest levels since the early 2000s. “The answer is everything from a man who questions the citizenship of the first African American President, courts white supremacists, and has been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color”. Black voters began supporting the Democratic Party heavily thanks to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He adds: “There’s no reason to think that Donald Trump’s suggestion that black Americans had “nothing to lose” because they “are living in poverty” will do anything to reverse that trend”. “Democratic crime policies, education policies, and economic policies have produced only more crime, more broken homes, and more poverty”.
Still, black Trump voters aren’t all that hard to find in places like Georgia, where the Monitor recently talked to Dee Finley, a middle-aged black woman who plans to vote for him.
He also made a bold prediction: “At the end of four years, I guarantee you that I will get over 95 per cent of the African-American vote”.
Indeed, as Trump has pointed out, African-Americans have lost disproportionate ground under the first black president.
“The Democratic Party has run almost every inner city in this country for 50 years, and run them into financial ruin”, Trump explained. Perhaps most critically, the percentage of black Americans who own homes dropped by 9.5 percent across Obama’s tenure, compared to a 5.6 drop on average. Eighty-seven percent of black voters we surveyed indicated that they would be anxious if he were elected president and only 6 percent “comfortable”. “It’s time to break with the failures of the past – I want to offer Americans a new future”.
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Consider: Black Americans are not “living in poverty” as a general rule. It could be, simply enough, that Trump doesn’t have anyone in his inner circle that can provide a sense of how to reach out to the black community. “People need to really look at the issues instead of voting with what your parents have voted for before”.
