Posted on 01/24/2016 11:00:27 AM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
In an interview airing Sunday on Fox's "Media Buzz," Trump told me there is already great affection for him in the black community.
"Look, the African Americans love me because they know I am going to bring back jobs," he told me at the Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas.
Okay, a pretty standard Trumpian boast. But then he said this:
"They are going to like me better than they like Obama. The truth is Obama has done nothing for them."
The statement was so audacious that it took me a split-second to react.
"Did you just say," I interrupted, "African-Americans are going to like you better than the first African-American president."
The billionaire didn't back off.
"I think that relatively speaking - I mean he does have a slight advantage in all fairness- but I think relatively speaking when I am finished I think they will absolutely love Donald Trump," he said.
Keep in mind that most blacks routinely vote for Democrats. Ronald Reagan once got 14 percent of the African-American vote and it was considered a triumph. There was one poll last fall that showed Trump with 25 percent support among blacks, but it would be a shocker if those numbers held up.
In the interview, Trump told me he has cut back his attacks on members of the media as losers and idiots because the press is treating him with more respect, mentioning the Wall Street Journal editorial page and a recent Time cover story. Soon after we wrapped the interview, though, National Review attacked Trump as a menace to American conservatism, and he responded by calling it a failing publication with little influence. It was as if things had suddenly returned to normal.
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Why would anyone want the alcoholic vote?
How does Ted Zeppelin inspire the black population to vote for him? Ted wont get even 1% of the black vote.
I agree. You see blacks at all his rallys. Black people are talking. Their homes and businesses have suffered terribly under Obama and the job loss is astronomical. Trump gives them HOPE. I’ve talked to some and they all go for Trump.
50% unemployment for blacks in big cities.
They are the most hurry by illegal immigration.
So right. They’ll vote for Trump.
Republicans seem scared of winning for some reason.
Yep. Trump is goading the kenyan. As soon as the he opens is mouth the counter attack from Trump will be epic. Get your popcorn.
A number of the black guys I’ve talked to about politics seem open to voting for Trump.
Right. Plus politicians are supposed to sound fair and balanced all the time and their “friends across the aisle” etc. Only Obama is allowed to toot his own horn. That phony hypocrisy is so DONE in America!
You are so narrow minded i wonder how you get down the street. Haven’t you ever heard the old joke, “I could shoot grandpaw and grandmaw would love me?” Sheeeeeesh...
They are terrified, because the corrupt, bloated bums that have been feeding off the coffers of the RNC coffers will NOT be in charge, they will not be pulling the strings.
Have you EVER seen a time in American History, when so-called Conservatives have attacked a Leading Candidate in the RNC with such venom? They want to destroy the candidate that has the best success of winning the Presidency; because they know that THEY WILL NOT BE IN CHARGE.
The fact of the matter is that "they" are no different than the DNC that has gotten America into the situaion we have all been enjoying since Bush Sr. was in office.
LOL. :)
I watched an insiring documentary about the South Bronx called the Rubble Kings.
At the end, you learn how and why hip hop started.
Netflix.
Worth it.
Links, please. :)
Seriously, support your candidate. If you have to attack someone, let me introduce you to Bernie and Hillary, they're great targets of opportunity.
Yep! Many I speak to, even right in my own family, are warm to or are voting for Trump!
Yep, but I think the idea of winning the black vote is too ambitious. But Trump is the only Republican that can do it, on the scene today.
Yep, but I think the idea of winning the black vote is too ambitious. But Trump is the only Republican that can do it, on the scene today.
Two Words: Omarosa.
It makes me sick what Liberals have done to the Black Community in our nation for the past 40-50 years! Liberals and Democrats have rewritten history; lying about conservative and Republicans, while at the same time covering up their racist past!
Liberal Icon and founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, referred to Blacks as “Human Weeds” in her 1930’s “Negro Project.” Any wonder so many PP Clinics are in minority/inner city neighborhoods?
“Well, if ‘The Apprentice’ is any indication, most likely so.”
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Well, if ‘God’s Awakening’ is any indication, most likely so.
Yep. God is awakening people of all colors.
A number of the black guys I’ve talked to about politics seem open to voting for Trump.
There is huge a Black vs. Hispanic conflict under the radar. Hispanics/Illegal aliens take over black neighborhoods, take jobs, etc. I watched it happen with my own eyes in Oakland, California.
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