Donald Trump’s pastors meeting backfires

And many people saw it in person. And no press to spread the gospel of Trump to black voters across America? “I think they really want to see victory, because ultimately it is about, we want to win and we want to win together”. These words uttered by Stephen Colbert while still hosting “The Colbert Report” sum up Donald Trump’s campaign for president. Cain was the lone major black Republican candidate four years ago.

“I think what happened, probably: It gets publicity, unfortunately, as everything I do gets publicity”, Trump lamented.

“I saw it and so many people saw it”, Trump insisted.

In the process, his jeremiads on immigration and Syrian refugees have dragged his rivals further right than they might have wished to go.

When NBC anchor Chuck Todd suggested the people Trump heard from were supporters and might want to agree with him, Trump interrupted to note the “huge Muslim population” that New Jersey has.

His campaign released a statement last week trumpeting a meeting between Trump and a “coalition of 100 African-American Evangelical pastors and religious leaders who will endorse the GOP front-runner after a private meeting”.

Although it’s unknown exactly which ministers will endorse Trump, Pastor Darrell Scott has admitted that he will be at the meeting to endorse Trump.

“He’s not going to make it”, said Kasich, who like Trump is seeking the Republican presidential nomination. As Trump tweeted, it is “Not a press event”.

Little more than a week after Donald Trump distributed – and then defended – wildly false claims about the number of people in the USA murdered by African Americans each year, the front-running Republican presidential candidate is scheduled to meet with 100 black religious leaders Monday.

Steve Parson, a black pastor from Richmond, Virginia, said prior to the meeting that he was there in “total support” of Trump.

Scott estimated that more than 100 preachers would nonetheless be meeting with Trump on Monday, despite criticism in an open letter in Ebony magazine from more than 100 black religious leaders.

That’s why I think it is time for everybody to start thinking of Trump not as a fluke but as a potential nominee and maybe even president.

The one-time-favourite-now-longshot voiced frustration over all the news-media attention still being hoovered up by Donald Trump, with the primaries fast approaching.

Instead, a few of the meeting’s participants met with reporters in the lobby of Trump Tower, with the billionaire businessman and reality TV star uncharacteristically waiting patiently for his turn to speak.

Trump hasn’t yet produced evidence of dancing Muslims, but he told “Meet the Press” that “we’re looking for other articles and we’re looking for other clips and I wouldn’t be surprised if we found them…”

After the meeting, Trump – who has courted controversy on a range of topics, notably his remarks about Mexican immigrants and his support for registering US Muslims – said he would travel to the southern US state of Georgia for “a big rally”.