Anger builds in Black community over Trump's claims of voter fraud in big cities

[DonViejo]

By Ashley Nguyen, Kayla Ruble and Tim Craig
November 20, 2020 at 9:43 p.m. EST

When Wisconsin Republicans opened an office earlier this year in the historical Bronzeville neighborhood, it was meant to be a physical symbol of President Trump's commitment to urban voters. Signs on the window declared "Black Voices Matter," and the address was on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

But on Friday, as state officials began recounting ballots in Milwaukee County at the request of Trump’s failed reelection campaign, the office had become, for many residents, a symbol of Republican hypocrisy.

“The president kept talking about Black voices mattering when he attempted to make inroads with the African American community,” said Cavalier Johnson, president of the Milwaukee Common Council. “Then he loses the election, and turns right around and targets the same communities that these Black folks came from.”

Johnson, who is Black, reflected deepening outrage over the president’s push for a recount, which some characterized as an attempt to disenfranchise Black voters in a desperate and chaotic bid to stay in power. Though Trump courted Black voters — and improved his showing over 2016 — he and his allies are now trying to deny President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in key battleground states by targeting ballots cast in heavily Black cities such as Philadelphia, Detroit, Atlanta and Milwaukee, arguing that these Democratic strongholds are hotbeds of fraud.

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[underpants]

1. Everything Trump touches dies

It’s that simple. Get near him and you get burned. Look at Rudy’s disastrous fall.

[Mister Ed]

2. Voting While Black.

It really is a crime, in the hearts and minds of Trump and his most rabid followers.

[gordianot]

3. At the beginning and end of the day Trump is a white supremest.

Even as a White Supremest Donald Trump is incapable promoting the interests of anyone except himself.

[catrose]

5. And why more blacks voted for him this time I'll never know

[Hortensis]

4. Good. They should be enraged at the Republicans. nt