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SummerSnow

(12,608 posts) Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:05 PM Sep 2018

Trump in New Bern, North Carolina....

He is handing out hot food to residents in New Bern, up close and personal, shaking hands with them and engaging in conversation. When he was in Puerto Rico he threw paper towels at them behind barriers.

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Trump in New Bern, North Carolina.... (Original Post) SummerSnow Sep 2018 OP

I just posted the same, except the optics make it look like he's handing food to white people. Solomon Sep 2018 #1

Whites are very slim majority in New Bern fescuerescue Sep 2018 #7

The White House knows that with midterms around the corner, they can't afford a slipup. bearsfootball516 Sep 2018 #2

The media will do a compare and contrast in 3, 2,1 SummerSnow Sep 2018 #4

He's very scripted. kskiska Sep 2018 #3

Seriously? dixiegrrrrl Sep 2018 #5

He went to a county that voted for him. New Bern is in Craven County mnhtnbb Sep 2018 #6

Solomon

(12,311 posts)

1. I just posted the same, except the optics make it look like he's handing food to white people.

Reply to SummerSnow (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:12 PM

Sep 2018

Maybe there aren't many POC in New Bern. They say he has 3 more stops to go so we will see.

fescuerescue

(4,448 posts)

7. Whites are very slim majority in New Bern

Reply to Solomon (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 19, 2018, 01:32 PM

Sep 2018

53%

Much less than the 77% nationwide

It's a small town, but very diverse in ethnicities as well as wealth.

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)

2. The White House knows that with midterms around the corner, they can't afford a slipup.

Reply to SummerSnow (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:17 PM

Sep 2018

You can bet everything he does in North Carolina is coordinated to make him look as professional and warm as possible.

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

4. The media will do a compare and contrast in 3, 2,1

Reply to bearsfootball516 (Reply #2)

Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:53 PM

Sep 2018

kskiska

(27,045 posts)

3. He's very scripted.

Reply to SummerSnow (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2018, 12:18 PM

Sep 2018

Reading everything from a paper in front of him.

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)

5. Seriously?

Reply to kskiska (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 19, 2018, 01:20 PM

Sep 2018

He is talking to people from a visible script?

mnhtnbb

(31,392 posts)

6. He went to a county that voted for him. New Bern is in Craven County

Reply to SummerSnow (Original post)

Wed Sep 19, 2018, 01:27 PM

Sep 2018

and he won the county vote by approximately 10,000 votes over Hillary, and there were only about 38,600. total votes in the county (1600 went to Gary Johnson and Jill Stein).

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