Trump prepares a push to woo black voters

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The African Americans for Trump coalition will reach out to black voters with a campaign message focused on policy outcomes rather than the president’s rhetoric. The campaign’s pitch to African Americans is simple: Ignore the president’s words and instead focus on his policies, like the state of the economy and the low unemployment rate, the passage of criminal justice reform or the creation of Opportunity Zones.

The Trump 2020 campaign has been quietly reaching out to prominent African Americans about joining its latest coalition, intended to boost Republican support in the black community. The effort comes just as the president capped off a month filled with racially divisive language and Twitter taunts aimed at House Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings and four freshman congresswomen of color.

Trump has regularly defended himself by saying “I am the least racist person there is anywhere in the world.” He told reporters recently that scores of African Americans have been calling the White House to thank him for his work. “What I’ve done for African Americans, no president, I would say, has done,” Trump said .

The African Americans for Trump coalition is being organized by Katrina Pierson, senior adviser to the Trump campaign, and a few campaign staffers. The launch date is tentatively set for after Labor Day. Already the Trump campaign has rolled out two other coalitions this summer including Latinos for Trump and Women for Trump, meant to show the president’s broad support among groups beyond white men.

“Let’s just look at the way he treated his one and only African American assistant to the president. The president called me a dog. How will he explain that to African American female voters?” said Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former senior official at the Trump White House.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/03/trump-black-voters-2020-1445491

[Downtown Hound]

1. LOL. Good luck.

You're going to need it.

[Farmer-Rick]

2. I'm sure little man Putin wont approve

He is a white supremacist aside from being a mobster and murderer.

[Shrike47]

3. The headline made me want to giggle. Good luck with that.

He might start with an apology if he wants to get anywhere.

[dalton99a]

4. "What I've done for African Americans"

Keep saying it, asshole

[kentuck]

5. In other words....

He is going to try and divide the base of the Democratic Party. Like when he said, "What have you got to lose?"

[ananda]

6. Really? Right.

I think they need an intervention on reality based living.

Even MF45's stupid token Ben Carson got kicked out of
a Black church for defending his boss re racism.

[MacDombles]

9. Token?

You are right. We should definitely use things like this to combat racism.

[MarvinGardens]

15. Welcome to DU.

[DinahMoeHum]

7. The "some of my best friends" routine. . .

. . .yeah, right.

[eleny]

8. As the Trump tariffs erode the buying power of income

..... .....

[sobenji]

10. Katrina the shoplifter?

Oh good. That’ll definitely make a difference with the AA voters

[TreasonousBastard]

11. "African Americans for Trump coalition"...

All three of them.

Katrina Pierson, btw, seems to be a Tea Party operative.

[Maru Kitteh]

17. Is there such a thing as a "Tea Party Operative" anymore? An operative is one

trying to be secretive. They're all pretty much out and loud now, near as I can tell.

[rurallib]

12. You mean the whole schtick with the congress women of color,

Cummings and Sharpton wasn't his charm offensive?

[Takket]

13. First thing the "African Americans for Drumpf" group needs....

Is maybe an African American...

Link to tweet

?s=21

[Wounded Bear]

22. First thing I thought of, too...

[uponit7771]

14. *** NOT THE ONION *** / sarc

[HipChick]

16. This is the "I have a black friend' so I can't be racist....

Hoping some folks will infiltrate and expose

[peggysue2]

18. Trump's plea to the African American electorate in 2016 was . . .

Whadda ya got to lose???

For 2020, the answer is loud and clear:

EVERYTHING!

So good luck with the wooing. Personally, I'd hate to be on the outreach team. They'll be lucky to come back with their faces intact.

[GulfCoast66]

19. Woo? That part is correct.

[smirkymonkey]

20. If I was black, I would be extremely insulted that he actually thought we were that

stupid and could not spot an obvious racist when we saw one. Who is he trying to fool?

[ElementaryPenguin]

21. WTF?! About as promising a campaign as Jews for Hitler would be.

Brilliant!!

[tanyev]

23. I predict that will be almost as successful as Infrastructure Week.

[duforsure]

24. He'll lie and say and claim anything

To con minorities to steal their votes, only to do everything he can later to hurt them as cruelly as he can. He's used this tactic many times before only to come back to screw them over. Only a real fool would believe or trust this guy on anything.