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RandySF

(58,822 posts)
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 03:39 PM Aug 2016

Trump advisor: Maybe a ‘backdrop of a burning car’ would reach black voters better

Donald Trump surrogate former Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) had some trouble explaining away his candidate’s latest statements about African Americans while speaking to a Michigan rally.

Trump told a predominantly white rally crowd in a 93 percent white town that black Americans have been decimated by Democrats and he’ll win 95 percent of their vote. Trump is currently polling lowest among African-American voters. The internet quickly erupted with outrage and mockery.

“He’s polling right now at 2 percent with African-American voters,” CNN host Brianna Keilar said. “Is that the right way to attract a voting block that obviously favors Hillary Clinton much more than him?”

Kingston maintained that the campaign’s internal polls show Trump doing better than two percent. “But the reality is he’s going there and he’s taking it to them. He’s giving them a proposal. He’s saying, ‘You know what? I’m interested, I went to Milwaukee, I’m here tonight, I want to talk to you,'” he said. At his speech in the Milwaukee suburbs, Trump slammed the black protesters in Milwaukee protesting in the streets.

Keilar jumped in, “I have to stop you because you said he’s going there. He’s not, he’s in Diamondale, which is 93 percent white. When he was in Milwaukee the other day, it was part of Milwaukee that wasn’t dealing — I mean he, it’s almost completely white”

“Well yeah, but Brianna he went,” Kingston began to say over her. “I mean, maybe it would have been nice if he went and had a backdrop with a burning car, but the reality is—”


http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/trump-advisor-maybe-backdrop-of-a-burning-car-would-reach-black-voters-better/

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Trump advisor: Maybe a ‘backdrop of a burning car’ would reach black voters better (Original Post) RandySF Aug 2016 OP
They can't help themselves. madaboutharry Aug 2016 #1
Unfriggen believable! fun n serious Aug 2016 #2
All too believable. More like unforgivable. cali Aug 2016 #5
They are doing a bank shot with their Trump AA 'outreach' (CNN) applegrove Aug 2016 #3
Their racism is a never ending black hole! Initech Aug 2016 #4
Wow! I keep promising to myself not to be shocked by what the Trump people say... Eugene Aug 2016 #6

madaboutharry

(40,211 posts)
1. They can't help themselves.
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 03:46 PM
Aug 2016

The stereotypes are seared into their little minds and the truth is they will never change.

applegrove

(118,654 posts)
3. They are doing a bank shot with their Trump AA 'outreach' (CNN)
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 04:10 PM
Aug 2016

They actually want the vote of college educated white people by reducing their fears that Trump is an outright racist. It is not about the African American vote at all.

Eugene

(61,894 posts)
6. Wow! I keep promising to myself not to be shocked by what the Trump people say...
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 04:28 PM
Aug 2016

but this plumbs new depths. These people truly and sincerely believe the racist horseshit they are spreading.

With "outreach" like this, Trump's support among African Americans will round to zero.

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