Targets Democratic advantage with PoC
Steve Peoples
The Associated Press
Published Saturday, April 18, 2020 9:20AM EDT
... As the next phase of the 2020 presidential campaign begins, Trump's team is betting that his actions, more than his words, on issues such as criminal justice, education and abortion will allow him to chip away at the Democrats' overwhelming advantage with African Americans, Latinos and women.
The high-stakes effort is backed by tens of millions of dollars, an expansive field program and a sophisticated digital operation aimed at peeling away even a narrow slice of the voters who make up the backbone of the Democratic Party's political base.
Trump's strategy is complicated by his leadership on the coronavirus pandemic that has taken a disproportionately devastating toll on minority communities. His divisive record on immigration and race is hard to overlook. He said there were "very fine people on both sides" of the deadly protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 against white supremacists, and his administration has separated thousands of immigrant children from their parents at the Mexican border.
... NAACP President Derrick Johnson seized on Trump's coronavirus response and the related impact on the African American community, predicting that the president's inability to control the outbreak would "overshadow any other issue" this fall ...
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