Monday, August 22, 2016

Donald Trump Made An Aggressive New Pitch To Black Voters. It Didn’t Go Well.

Donald Trump faces a number of challenges in his quest to win the presidency. One is his stunning unpopularity with African-American voters.

A recent poll found that Trump trailed Hillary Clinton among African-American by a margin of 92–2. Polls the key states of Ohio and Pennsylvania, found that Trump attracted zero percent of the black vote. (Even Mitt Romney, running against the first African-American president, managed to get 6%.)

Speaking in Michigan, Trump offered a blunt appeal to African-American voters: “You’re living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. 58% of your youth in unemployed. What the hell do you have to lose?”...
https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-made-an-aggressive-new-pitch-to-black-voters-it-didnt-go-well-657208e15842#.xj24eahbi


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