Donald Trump faces new backlash over pitch to black voters
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Source: CBS News
On the heels of another staff shakeup, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was facing a new backlash - this time for his attempt to get black voters to vote for him in the November election.
CBS News correspondent Errol Barnett reports it was supposed to be a day for a clean slate, but Trumps latest attempted outreach to a larger voting bloc was called ignorant and heavy-handed by his critics.
Speaking from a predominately white suburb in Michigan, Trump tried to increase his support from African-American voters, which according to a recent Pew survey favor Hillary Clinton over the Republican nominee by an 83-point margin.
Youre living in poverty, Trump said. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs - 58 percent of your youth is unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-backlash-appeal-black-voters/
Donald just can't seem to get out of the rough.
trusty elf
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raven mad
(4,940 posts)GOTV works, and man, did I have the best ribs EVER. Oh, and she owns her own business, and has 2 sons in the military, and grabbed the GOTV petition out of my hands to distribute to the neighbors.
I'm about 1/10th of a block away from this awesome woman.
SummerSnow
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(53,475 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,789 posts)The statements he made are old now and have been reported already, even in LBN.
I might open the link and read it later.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)I think Trump was trying to assuage the white voters that have been turned off by his past bigoted statements. That why he made these statements before white audiences while also making sure to include his dog whistling about "law and order" in the inner cities. Like Hermain Cain and Ben Carson, Republicans like the illusion that they have no racist tendencies. Trump was speaking to those white people and not black people IMO.
Old Union Guy
(738 posts)They can now vote for Trump and not "feel" racist.
Republicans are all about feelings you know.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)he can throw out a few meaningless sound bytes at African Americans and still dog whistle about law and order in the inner cities. Then, white voters can claim that Trump's bigotry is just a machination of the liberal media. You see, they're victims again.
Chemisse
(30,793 posts)This was posted more than 12 hours after the article was published. Please consider posting in GE or GD-6 instead.
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