Posted on 03/04/2020 9:35:26 AM PST by NRx
The Trump campaign is investing more money and resources in an attempt to attract African-American voters than any Republican presidential campaign in recent memory.
The drive includes highly visible television advertising, including an $11 million Super Bowl commercial, along with ad purchases in local black newspapers and on radio stations; Black Voices for Trump; storefronts in key battleground states; and a sustained social media campaign directed at black voters whose consumer, religious and demographic profiles suggest potential support, including on such issues as immigration, abortion, gender roles and gay rights.
For Trump, the effort became all the more crucial as the Super Tuesday primaries demonstrated Joe Bidens strong appeal to black voters. Exit polls showed Biden winning 57 percent of the votes cast by African-Americans on Tuesday, 40 points higher than his closest competitor, Bernie Sanders, at 17 percent.
Adrianne Shropshire, executive director of the pro-Democratic BlackPAC and the affiliated nonpartisan Black Progressive Action Coalition, wrote in an email that Trump has already communicated with a large segment of the African-American electorate, although she disputes the effectiveness of Trumps bid to win black support:
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Trump to any person of color: What have the democrat done for you but lie and lie and lie again. Vote for me as president and I will get more tax and regulation cuts which mean more job opportunities and money for you.
The key is simpler than that
The black vote to be poached is in the cities.
Let’s say, Nashville,birmingham, Atlanta....... red zone
Then Richmond, Miami, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, St Louis, Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles....... there are the possible heavy duty targets.
One black vote in those is one for Trump and one gone from Biden......... twofer
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