Thread: Trump tries to appeal to Hispanic, black voters; argues Dems have abandoned them

Trump tries to appeal to Hispanic, black voters; argues Dems have abandoned them

Published August 20, 2016 FoxNews.com

Donald Trump met Saturday with his newly formed Hispanic advisory board, part of a new effort by the Republican presidential nominee and his new-look campaign team to win at least some support from minority voters as the White House race enters its final stages.

Trump met in New York with the National Hispanic Advisory Council for Trump -- a coalition of elected officials, business leaders and faith leaders -- with hopes of improving relations with Latino voters.

Helen Aguirre Ferri, director of Hispanic communications for the Republican National Committee, called the meeting a "game-changing" opportunity.

RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said the meeting would be an exchange in which the leaders would “share their insights and experience,” then return to their communities to “relay Mr. Trump's message of ending the failed status quo to their congregations and media audience.”

Priebus also said the meeting was “just one component of our expansive effort to engage the Hispanic community.”

Still, winning over Hispanic voters will not be easy. Trump infamously accused Mexico of sending rapists and criminals across the southern U.S. border at his campaign kickoff event last year. The real estate mogul also vowed to deport all of the estimated 11 million people living in the country illegally.

Washington Republicans have been trying to improve their standing among Hispanic voters since the 2012 election, when exit polls showed President Obama won re-election with roughly 70 percent of the Hispanic vote, compared to about 27 percent for Republican challenger Mitt Romney.

And most polls show Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton with a double-digit lead over Trump among Hispanic voters, with early voting in some states set to begin in less than two weeks.

Earlier this week, the Trump campaign announced that Stephen Bannon, executive chairman of Breitbart News, was its new chief executive and that GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway had been promoted to campaign manager. On Friday, campaign Chairman Paul Manafort resigned.

Trump has also made efforts to try to appeal more to black voters, whom he argues should support his campaign after years of reliably supporting Democrats.

At a rally in suburban Michigan on Friday night, Trump said to the crowd that “no group in America has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton's policies than African Americans.”

"Look at how much African-American communities are suffering from Democratic control,” Trump continued in a speech similar to one he gave the day before in North Carolina. “What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump? … You live in your poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs -- 58 percent of your youth is unemployed."

His efforts are similar to those of other Republicans who have publically argued that Democrats have for decades run major U.S. cities like Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit and Philadelphia but have failed their residents, many of them minorities, with poorly-run or under-performing services and facilities.

Democrats were quick to denounce Trump’s comments in Michigan, with Democratic National Committee official Brandon Davis on Saturday saying Trump “has shown little interest engaging the black community and his comments underscore just how out of touch he is with the African American community.”

On Saturday, Trump told supporters in Fredericksburg, Va. that Republicans "must do better, and will do better" at appealing to African-American voters.

Noting that the "GOP is the party of Abraham Lincoln," Trump said, "I want our party to be a home of the African-American voter once again."

However, Democratic politicians have had the black vote for decades, and this year’s election appears to be no different.

Clinton overwhelmingly won the black vote in South Carolina early in the Democratic primary season and continued to win it in other Southern states to secure the nomination, despite challenger Sen. Bernie Sanders’ strong populist promise to cut the social and economic inequality gap in the United States.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Democrats have lied about Republicans for 151 years, because Democrats have always supported slavery in some form, Democrats have always supported free trade treason in some form. Democrats not only invented both, they promulgated it. It's time for Republicans to stand up and tell ALL AMERICANS the truth, and Donald Trump is the first Republican candidate for President willing to do that.

The Republican Party was created to help black people in the United States. You are the reason we have a party. 2,000,000 Republicans volunteered to fight a war to set you free. Republicans passed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to guarantee equal rights. Republicans passed the 1866 US Civil Rights Act, the 1957 US Civil Rights Act, the 1964 US Civil Rights Act and the 1965 US Voting Rights Act. Republicans are responsible for the Brown vs Board of Education US Supreme Court Ruling. Republicans are responsible for ending segregation. Republicans are responsible for ending the draft that targeted black Americans. Republicans are responsible for every single effort to ensure equal rights and opportunity for black Americans.

Democrats are responsible for the income tax, free trade policies and massive immigration that stole your jobs, deflated your wages, handed your good jobs off to excess immigrants and illegal aliens, deflated your wages due to overpopulation from immigration, and trapped you in inner cities controlled by the dirty disgusting politics of the Democratic Machine that fed their donors at your expense, that stuck you in low income housing in projects surrounded by crime, blight, poverty and unemployment, ensuring that you would not move out of these cities and vote for Democrats to keep a leaky roof over your head instead of freedom, jobs and prosperity that might move you out of the cities or to different voting precints. The manipulation is appalling and so disgusting that most Republicans have never wanted to talk about it.

Then came a truly Radical Republican, named Donald Trump who isn't afraid of anyone or anything and is willing to be called every name in the book, who not only wants to talk about it, but wants to solve the problems created solely by Democrats against black Americans.

And what do the Democrats do? They call him a fraud, a racist, a phony .... since when is telling the truth about poverty and unemployment fraudulent, racist or phony??!! Never. Telling the truth is hard when you're up against a racist Democratic Machine that is corrupt, dishonest, and fighting like rats in a corner to hang on to what they stole from black Americans to line their pockets by supporting illegal aliens to whom they handed over your jobs, wages, educations, opportunities and civil rights.

Somehow they convinced you through the now totally CORRUPT NAACP that merging alliances with the people stealing your jobs was a good thing. The same way they convinced you that signing trade deals sucking our manufacturing jobs out of our country through NAFTA and free trade treason was a good thing. The same way they convinced Americans that an income tax was a good thing.

Democrat policies are racist, authoritarian, elitist and the complete opposite of what they try to sell.

I sure hope Americans who were somehow for some untold reason convinced that living in unsafe projects that made millionaires out of the owners while you wait for the insufficient government "check" to arrive in the mail was better than having a good job and buying a home or renting a nice apartment wherever you wanted to live see the light and the alternative this year and board the TRUMP TRAIN.

Come. Home.

VOTE FOR DONALD J TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!