Posted on 09/03/2016 10:13:30 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
On Saturday, Donald Trump will head to Detroit to meet with local black leaders following a trip to another predominantly black community in North Philadelphia. While Mr. Trump has been making a pitch to black voters on the stump, the events kick off what will be the first serious concerted effort by a Republican presidential candidate in at least a decade.
Mr. Trump on Friday sat down with African American elected officials and clergy at a charter school in Philly to discuss the cost and accessibility of healthcare, the impact on the black community from immigration and criminal justice reform.
While the GOP nominee said his opponent Hillary Clinton and Democrats have long-taken advantage of the black community and its votes for granted, surrogates have publicly mocked the reach out effort. The Clinton campaign on Friday sent out an email to supporters citing a housing discrimination lawsuit the Department of Justice filed against Trump in the 1970s, making a joke of the strategy though insiders concede they are mindful of his working-class appeal across the racial spectrum.
And not everyone is laughing.
Last week, during an interview on “CNN Newsroom,” Clarence “Charles” Henderson, one of four African American college students who sat down at a “whites only” lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C., endorsed Mr. Trump. Mr. Henderson, speaking with CNN’s Jim Sciutto, said that he was backing the New York businessman because of his business experience and unique understanding of how to create jobs, which black communities desperately need and have lacked under President Barack Obama.
“Donald Trump is a businessman and America is a business,” Mr. Henderson said. “In order to run America, in order to be a part of running America, you have to understand the economics of America and that we are free society.”
While the Woolworth lunch-counter sit-in was not the first of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were instrumental and the most well-known. Worth noting, the Woolworth store is now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. Just one week after the Greensboro sit-ins began, students in other North Carolina towns launched their own protests and the movement quickly spread to other Southern cities, including Richmond, Virginia and Nashville, Tennessee.
Renee Amoore, deputy chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party and early Trump supporter who attended Friday’s meeting in North Philadelphia, challenged the conventional wisdom that Trump’s message is not appealing to black voters. She pointed out that his media critics have attacked Mr. Trump for making pitches to black voters while speaking before what they say are predominantly white audiences.
“He’s here, in a black community — that’s news,” Ms. Amoore said. “He is starting a conversation.”
Ardent Trump supporters push back on the notion that the crowds at rallies are all white. To be fair, People’s Pundit Daily has observed the surprisingly diverse nature of the rally crowds at events in Florida. The diverse delegations at the Republican National Convention were largely the result of minority Trump supporters. For instance, roughly two-thirds of the California delegation, which cast all their ballots for Mr. Trump, had never been to a GOP convention.
But pollsters are painting two very different pictures. A USA Today/Suffolk University Poll [PPD Pollster Scorecard Rating: C-] showed only 4% support among African Americans, though it also appears to be an outlier on the national race. Mrs. Clinton maintained a 7-point lead in a week Reuters had the race tied and Rasmussen Reports showed her down by 1 point. Pew Research [PPD Pollster Scorecard Rating: B-] found roughly 13% of African American voters support Mr. Trump nationwide, while SurveyUSA Poll and other A-Rated pollsters found upwards of 30% in battleground states such as North Carolina. A recent Emerson College Poll Emerson College Polling University in North Carolina, which gave the Republican a slight edge overall, found 16% of likely African American voters say they’ll support the Republican.
As of Saturday, the People’s Pundit Daily U.S. Presidential Election Daily Tracking Poll finds Mr. Trump taking 10% of the African-American vote.
In fact, the same week Mrs. Clinton made what some viewed as an over-the-top speech trying to link Mr. Trump to the alt-right and the KKK, his support among African Americans increased from 5% to 11% in the nationwide poll.
“Trump’s support has always been attitudinal, meaning it’s not necessarily constrained by traditional demographics,” said PPD’s senior political analyst Richard D. Baris. “That’s the power of nationalism and economic populism. He’s had the potential to outperform previous Republican nominees among black voters and in black communities since the start of the cycle. It’s up to him how serious he wants to take that opportunity.”
“Publicly, Democrats mock the effort,” he added. “Privately, they’re terrified.”
Fuel for Fire
Yes!
TRUMP!
GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD! R candidates (in general, I know there have been some wonderful exceptions) have needed to reach out to all Americans, and especially stop avoiding the black and Latino communities...for many years! A good, honest R economic message (and social message too, though Mr. Trump is much stronger on the economic message)....should resonate with many black and Latin voters, it just has to get communicated PAST THE “controlled” or biased mass media and INTO those neighborhoods. It appears that Mr. T may be doing this now...!
Very good observation.
What Donald Trump needs to do is simply talk directly to the American People. When Trump does this, he invariably connects, and the Media and Establishment (but I repeat myself), for that short period of time, can't do anything about it.
That's why I believe that Trump should also keep up his harsh criticism of the Media and continue call them out for their blatant bias and slant. Along with his core messaging, Trump needs to continue reminding the People what the dishonest Media is trying to do: prop up a blatantly corrupt Presidential candidate.
Vote Trump!
you are correct
You know the Demoncraps are scared when they send out there surrogates in the press to do hit jobs on black pastors.
I could not have said it better.
Trump in a black Church...a demonRAT's worst nightmare.
Trump reaching out to Africans is a waste of energy. He is not offering handouts. What Trump offers is a competitive work field, not based on race, and this does not sell well to Africans.
Donald Trump will not carry the majority of the black vote. However, through this outreach, he will have enough of them begin to question why they should remain loyal to the Democrat Party when that loyalty has been a one way street. The left is scared to death that black voters will open their eyes and leave the Democrat plantation in significant enough numbers to doom Hillary.
Perhaps it will work with Americans.
They call themselves Africans first.
There are a hell of a lot more lazy white people in this country than black.
What Mr. Trump is offering sells very well with black Americans. There will always be a subset of Americans who are lazy and prefer handouts, and skin color is not the deciding factor.
There may be a larger percentage of black Americans who prefer handouts, but that is as much our fault as anyone else due to the fact we have allowed the left to get away with ever expanding entitlement programs that are used to keep black Americans “on the plantation”.
In the end, it’s never wise to paint black Americans with such a broad brush.
Thanks for the painting tip. I observe, not just here, but on the vast African continent too. 100s of billions in handouts to the continent has accomplished virtually nothing. If “ we” are to blame, then you share the same idea that no one can be held accountable for their own behavior. Nonsense. Mark my words, 90% of Africans will still vote for Hillary.
I'm not speaking about black people in Africa. I'm talking about black people in America. Period.
Many, if not most, are quite civilized and the equal of any other “race”. Raised and educated in our (all of us) culture.
There are, of course, a large subset who have been used by the left and are perpetually oppressed to make sure they will always vote for the left. Not all, but the majority will vote for the left. That is our fault for letting the left set the narrative of race relations back in the 60’s. They are told that they should live with whatever "culture" suits them, and are now actively being encouraged by communists to advance marxist ideology (Black Live Matter idiots).
I'm not saying that people can't be held accountable for their own behavior, so take that gutter garbage and stuff it.
There are many who would appreciate an opportunity to step off of the plantation with a hand up. It's difficult to break the generations of accepting hand outs, and that was the goal of the left with their entitlement push.
Problem is, we also have the same issues all over the country regardless of the color of ones skin. Now we have young people who expect freebies and will vote for the left who will continue to promise more freebies. Skin color is not the issue, obviously.
Skin color has never, I repeat, never been the issue. Bad behavior is the issue in entirety. On rare occasions, blaming whitey is not the answer. Sometimes people with IQs in the 80s can be expected to observe what goes on around them and if they have the inclination, figure it out and act accordingly. I take no blame for what I can’t control. Since you accept the blame, then I blame you.
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