Trump calls on GOP to improve African American outreach

A day after Donald Trump controversially claimed African-Americans have nothing to lose by voting Republican in November, the GOP presidential candidate made new overtures to minority voters Saturday, asserting his party is best positioned to engender social change. Predictably, what he had to say wasn’t exactly the rallying cry for unity.

A top aide to Donald Trump said on Sunday the Republican presidential nominee’s plans to deport 11 million people who are in the United States illegally were a work in progress and that he was committed to a “fair and humane” approach on immigration. What do you have to lose?’ he asked.

During his rally in Fredricksburg he encouraged African-Americans to vote for him in November.

As Trump stood with law enforcement officials for a photo op, the billionaire businessman joked, “You’ll all be very famous in about three hours”. ‘You live in your poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed.

A Reuters/Ipsos survey released on Friday showed Clinton leading Trump nationally by 8 percentage points, 42 percent to 34 percent. They only have their dignity and lives to lose.

Utilizing the new stump style adopted in the wake of a campaign shake-up – including use of a prepared speech and teleprompter at a mass rally – Trump employed old and new phrases like “law and order”, “America first” and “peace through strength”.

On Wednesday, Trump announced that Stephen K. Bannon, the executive chairman of Breitbart News, is his campaign’s new CEO, while GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway would serve as campaign manager.

While condemning Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton and her role in President Obama’s administration, Trump said he would represent “the forgotten man” and “forgotten woman” who are ignored by the nation’s elite. “And we know that once you start identifying people by racial group – or Muslims by religion – you start that circle it tends to come back around and smack black voters in the face pretty quickly”, Simmons said.

But winning over Hispanic voters will not be easy for the Republican nominee. He seems to be refining the message, and in the latest of a series of scripted speeches Saturday, he acknowledged the GOP’s struggle to win over black voters.

“The judges noted that Republican leaders had drafted their restrictions on voting only after receiving data indicating that African-Americans would be the voters most significantly affected by them”. He’s holding a campaign rally in Jackson, Miss., on Wednesday.