Trump pitches black voters: ‘What the hell do you have to lose?’
“And believe it or not, I regret it”, Donald Trump said.
Trump didn’t specify what comments he was referring to, but he added that, “Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues”.
The new improved Trump emerged from a third shake up of his faltering campaign amid falling poll numbers despite surging crowds at his rallies.
He said many are living in poverty and have no jobs. At the same time, party leaders have conceded they may divert resources away from the presidential contest in favor of vulnerable Senate and House candidates if things don’t improve.
Later Friday evening, Hillary Clinton’s Twitter account linked to an excerpt from Trump’s speech and said, “This is so ignorant it’s staggering”.
Former Congressman Mark Schauer and several members of the local United Auto Workers Association attacked Trump’s statements about moving vehicle production outside of MI, his failure to release his tax returns, and said Trump is not on the side of the American workers.
Trump’s decision to tap Stephen Bannon, a combative conservative media executive, as his new campaign chief suggested to some that he might continue the divisive rhetoric that has angered minorities and alienated large swaths of the general election electorate.
Marlon Marshall, Clinton’s director of state campaigns and political engagement, said African-Americans had everything to lose from Trump “who questions the citizenship of the first African-American president, courts white supremacists, and has been sued for housing discrimination against communities of color”.
Yet the campaign’s payroll remained thin, and there did not appear to be much new in the way of office leases across the country, including in OH and other crucial states.
Tens of millions of working people and youth are sickened by the prospect of choosing between Clinton, the personification of the corporate status quo, and Trump, the fascistic billionaire.
Trump made his remarks while campaigning Friday night in Dimondale, a suburb of Lansing, Mich. Edwards spokesman Richard Carbo said in a statement that “we hope he’ll consider volunteering or making a sizable donation to the LA Flood Relief Fund to help the victims of this storm”.
Trump’s first big plea to black voters came Wednesday in West Bend, Wisconsin – which is 94.8 percent white – after the killing of a black man at the hands of Milwaukee police sparked protests and unrest in Milwaukee.
African Americans voted overwhelmingly in favor of outgoing Democratic President Barack Obama and Clinton’s husband, former president Bill Clinton.
“What do you have to lose?” he asked black voters, speaking to a mostly white audience.
Most remarkable was the appearance on the ABC program “This Week” of Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook.
Donald Trump is predicting he’ll have a new nickname. “And once the election’s over, they go back to their palaces in Washington, and you know what, they do nothing for you, just remember it”.
The head of Ukraine’s newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau, Artem Sytnyk, said this week that more than $12 million was earmarked for payment to Manafort from 2007 to 2012, although it was not clear if he received the money.
But several Trump supporters at the rally applauded the move. “I have done that”, Trump said. She has had a lot of tough things said to her.