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During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump directly appealed to African American voters for their vote, asking them, "What do you have to lose?" Trump should have received more credit for this. Republicans have often been criticized for not wooing African Americans from Democrats, who crucially depend on African Americans' overwhelming support yet take their votes for granted. Trump's message was that blacks had entrusted their improvement exclusively to the Democratic Party, but the party had failed to produce. He highlighted two critical areas in which Democrats had let them down: education and poverty. He said that blacks "are living...