Trump Campaign Struggles to Pull Off Minority Outreach Events [View all]
As his approval ratings with minority voters continue to plummet, Donald Trump's campaign rescheduled yet another minority outreach event this week.
The Republican nominee was set to attend a Hispanic roundtable in Miami on Tuesday, but two days after scheduling it, the campaign said the intended attendees weren't in town after all and that the roundtable would be delayed again. The event, first delayed after the police shootings in Dallas on July 7, had been initially scheduled for July 9. A new date has yet to be announced.
It's the latest in a growing list of derailed efforts to appeal to the communities that most strongly disapprove of the Republican nominee.
An overwhelming 94 percent of black voters disapprove of Donald Trump — up 13 percent from May — according to a Washington Post/ABC News poll, while 89 percent of Latinos feel the same, up 5 percent from May. The numbers are worse in Ohio, where an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that Trump had zero percent of African-American voter support in the swing state.
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Two other events last year have met similar fates: A public question and answer session with the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce was prominently scheduled for October 8, but was canceled six days out when the group reportedly refused to "change the format of the forum, show any favoritism, exclude any issues or topics, or grant any immunity from objective scrutiny."
A month earlier, Trump added a stop at a black business conference in Charleston, South Carolina. Just a few dozen conference attendees actually attended the campaign event supposedly thrown in their honor. Instead, the candidate spoke to a half-empty room of white people.
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