Chairman of FL Black Repub Caucus escorted out of Trump rally-'We don't need black votes to win'

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35. He says he was already cleared by the Secret Service, making this even stranger.

Jackson's critiques come after news broke that Giorno refused to let Jackson stay backstage at a recent Florida rally and then, according to Jackson, told him flat-out that Trump didn't need black votes.

"The crazy part about it is that the Secret Service had already cleared me to be back there, and yet she made a scene and claimed that she didn't know who I was," Jackson says.

But Jackson says the problems with minority outreach inside Trump's Florida operation go much deeper than just one misstep by Giorno at a rally.

The West Palm Beach native says he had hoped to use his position to help Trump avoid Mitt Romney's missteps in 2012; Jackson thinks Romney started much too late in reaching out to black voters. Jackson says that he believes African-Americans are ready to leave the Democratic Party but that they need a sustained outreach effort.

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