Trump makes direct appeal to African-American voters

“Donald Trump asks what the African American community has to lose by voting for him”, said Marlon Marshall, Clinton’s director of state campaigns and political engagement, in a statement. To those I say the following: What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump? He also swore to “produce” for African-Americans where Democrats had failed. He said his rival Hillary Clinton would rather give jobs to refugees than American citizens.

Only shortly after his speech, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton responded with a tweet, saying, “This is so ignorant it’s staggering”. President Barack Obama won roughly 93 percent of black voters in his re-election campaign in 2012. The latest polls show that only a dismal 2 percent of African-Americans are willing to vote for Trump.

The remark appeared to affirm a common belief that Trump’s supposed outreach to black voters is more about assuaging white Americans who perceive him as racist than bringing black Americans around to his candidacy.

Shortly after the BLM protester was beaten at one of his rallies, Trump announced that he would meet with a large group of black pastors in NY, where they would endorse him.

At a March rally in North Carolina, a white Trump supporter was charged with assault after video captured him sucker-punching a black protester.

Donald Trump sat down Saturday with Latino leaders from almost a dozen states in his latest effort to appeal to minority voters who have largely spurned his struggling presidential campaign.

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.

However, many commentators on Twitter were perplexed by Trump’s approach in courting these voters.

But his historically low support among black voters and a series of stumbles throughout his campaign suggest he will have some work to do.

If elected commander in chief, the NY real estate mogul-turned-reality TV star-turned presidential hopeful said, “We are going to work closely with African-American parents and students in the inner cities – and what a big difference that will make”.

Ana Navarro, a Latina Republican strategist, wrote: “Trump’s “Black outreach” so tone-deaf & condescending, his “Hispanic outreach”, (eating a taco bowl), suddenly not that bad & stupid”.

He launched his campaign previous year with a speech that accused Mexico of sending rapists and criminals across the border, and has since vowed to deport all of the estimated 11million people living in the United States illegally.

The moves effectively demoted Manafort, whose links to the pro-Russian former Ukrainian government of Viktor Yanukovych have drawn scrutiny in recent days.