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Cattledog

(5,915 posts)
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 06:11 PM Jan 2020

Trump allies are handing out cash to black voters.

Allies of Donald Trump have begun holding events in black communities where organizers lavish praise on the president as they hand out tens of thousands of dollars to lucky attendees.

The first giveaway took place last month in Cleveland, where recipients whose winning tickets were drawn from a bin landed cash gifts in increments of several hundred dollars, stuffed into envelopes. A second giveaway scheduled for this month in Virginia has been postponed, and more are said to be in the works.

The tour comes as Trump’s campaign has been investing its own money to make inroads with black voters and erode Democrats’ overwhelming advantage with them. But the cash giveaways are organized under the auspices of an outside charity, the Urban Revitalization Coalition, permitting donors to remain anonymous and make tax-deductible contributions.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/29/trump-black-voters-cash-giveaways-108072

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Trump allies are handing out cash to black voters. (Original Post) Cattledog Jan 2020 OP
That needs to go viral asap! 2naSalit Jan 2020 #1
We need to get a candidate and start raising boat loads of money. redstatebluegirl Jan 2020 #2
They can hand out $$$ and still not get votes. nt live love laugh Jan 2020 #3
Most certainly..... sdfernando Jan 2020 #4
In a tone slightly different from "leave the gun, bring the cannolis" Blue_true Jan 2020 #5
The effort shows how nervous the Trump people are. nt Blue_true Jan 2020 #6
Me after every person in room gets money, "Thanks !!! We're all gonna contribute jt to democrats!!" uponit7771 Jan 2020 #7
I don't get it... stillcool Jan 2020 #8
US Dollars or Russian Rubles? IADEMO2004 Jan 2020 #9

redstatebluegirl

(12,265 posts)
2. We need to get a candidate and start raising boat loads of money.
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 06:16 PM
Jan 2020

I don't say we need to do what they are doing but they are going to do WHATEVER they want after his royal fat butt is acquitted. We are spending all of our money fighting each other in the primary.

sdfernando

(4,935 posts)
4. Most certainly.....
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 06:36 PM
Jan 2020

I would take the cash....then dole it out to democratic candidates....and I would surely vote a straight democratic ticket.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
5. In a tone slightly different from "leave the gun, bring the cannolis"
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 06:46 PM
Jan 2020

"take the money, take the votes elsewhere".

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
8. I don't get it...
Wed Jan 29, 2020, 06:52 PM
Jan 2020

who supplies the money to give away? And, how is it a charitable donation?

Scott, a Cleveland-based pastor, has been one of Trump’s closest and most prominent black supporters. He struck up a relationship with the real estate mogul in the years before Trump’s presidential run, and — along with Trump’s former lieutenant Michael Cohen — co-founded the National Diversity Coalition for Trump to promote that run.

The election year initiative by the Urban Revitalization Coalition to improve Trump’s image in black communities could bolster those efforts.
The coalition planned a Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at Virginia Union University, a historically black school in Richmond. Advertisements for the event said it would feature a $30,000 cash giveaway and would honor Trump as well as his son-in-law, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner.
But school administrators canceled the Jan. 20 event, saying it had been described to them as an “economic development discussion” when it was first booked. In a letter to Lanier, university President Hakim Lucas said: “The event advertised is vastly different from the event VUU agreed to co-host.”
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