Trump ramps up minority outreach with Philadelphia visit

Omarosa Manigault, left, who was a contestant on the first season of Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice” and is now an ordained minister, appears alongside the GOP nominee during a November 30 press conference following Trump’s meeting with black religious leaders in NY.

Calvin Tucker, a local Republican leader, thanked Trump at the end of a roundtable meeting “for being fearless enough to come” to North Philadelphia.

Trump will spend Saturday in the heavily black, economically struggling city, heading to a church then going out with surrogate Ben Carson to see the neighborhoods where his former primary rival grew up as he seeks to show that he can indeed reach out to the black community. And one would-be Trump supporter, who says she is the daughter of Milton Street and had been given a role in the National Diversity Coalition For Trump, said she was denied access to Friday’s visit.

She added that: “Pennsylvania has your back, and Philly in particular”.

Young Hispanics, Asian-Americans and African-Americans are much more likely to trust Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump to deal with immigrants living in the United States illegally.

One day after insisting all undocumented immigrants must be deported, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump seems to be backing off. She said she’s been a Republican most her life, but “for the first time in my life, I feel like my vote is going to count”.

“The best predictor of future behaviour is past behaviour”, said Mr Boyer, speaking at the council’s headquarters. “We reject his notion that we have nothing to lose by supporting him”. Trump is also scheduled to visit a predominantly black church in Detroit over the weekend in his quest to shore up additional support among African-Americans. They’re expected to be frequent visitors to the pivotal state of OH over the next two months.

But so far, Trump’s outreach has largely fallen flat. Many minority voters have found Mr Trump’s dire description of their lives to be condescending – and African American community leaders have dismissed his message, delivered largely in front of predominantly white rally audiences – as more meant to reassure undecided white voters that he is not racist than actually help communities of colour.

Mr Trump also continued to take a hard-line stance on immigration, which he highlighted once again today.

Shagla Hightower told Trump Friday that her daughters’ killers “should have never been here” and praises Trump for giving her daughter recognition. “In my opinion, meeting with this racist bigot is Master back in the slave house if you ask me”, said Asa Khalif, Black Lives Matter. A person who committed murder, killed a child, whatever it may be, we still give them a right in our nation to be heard.

Ms Hightower’s is “a awful story”, Mr Trump said, “but it’s a story a lot of people are going through”. The report also said his aides will also help edit the interview before it airs on the pastor’s Impact Network.

After a yearlong investigation, the FBI recommended against prosecution in July, and the Justice Department then closed the case.