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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:27 PM Aug 2016

All-white Fox panel: Speech to all-white Wisconsin crowd shows Trump is ‘not ignoring’ black voters

A panel of white hosts and pundits on Fox News asserted that Donald Trump’s Tuesday speech to a nearly all-white audience in Wisconsin showed that the Republican presidential nominee did not “take the black vote for granted” like they said Democrats had done for years. On Tuesday, Trump traveled to West Bend, Wisconsin — which is 95 percent white — to ask “for the vote for every African-American citizen struggling in our society today who wants a different and much better future.”

Trump campaign adviser Rudy Giuliani joined three white Fox News hosts — Steve Doocy, Ainsley Earhardt and Brian Kilmeade — on Wednesday to praise Trump’s African-American outreach.

“Consider how dangerous that was,” Giuliani opined. “Going into Milwaukee in the middle of the riots and talking about law and order. But also talking about what needs to be done to help minority communities, African-American communities, poor communities to come out of the situation that they’re in. No one has offered answers like that together.”

“This is the first time I can remember him talking about minorities except on the defensive,” Kilmeade agreed. “Here he is on the offensive, saying, ‘I am not ignoring you.'”

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/all-white-fox-panel-speech-to-all-white-wisconsin-crowd-shows-trump-is-not-ignoring-black-voters/

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Gothmog

(145,264 posts)
2. Trump talking to an all white audience is a great way to win the vote of the African American voters
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:29 PM
Aug 2016

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,706 posts)
5. Giuliani is such an idiot.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:31 PM
Aug 2016

"Going to Milwaukee in the middle of the riots and talking about law and order" was "dangerous"? I lived in West Bend for a few years when I was a kid and I still have a couple of relatives there. I know where it is and what it's like. It's not even a suburb of Milwaukee - it's about 40 miles north and is a pleasant little town full of (mostly conservative) white people. He wasn't anywhere near Milwaukee or any danger from - you know - those people.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
8. He did actually make an appearance in Milwaukee
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:34 PM
Aug 2016

And met with some law enforcement officials there a few hours before his speech in West Bend.

 

oberliner

(58,724 posts)
7. Trump kept saying "here in Milwaukee" when he wasn't in Milwaukee
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 12:32 PM
Aug 2016

It's like saying "here in Compton" when you are in Orange County.

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
13. The Trump spokeswoman on CNN claimed he could've given that speech anywhere.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 01:59 PM
Aug 2016

She went on to claim that with TV and the internet, he was talking to black people all over the country, and not just the white people in the town 30 mikes from Milwaukee. Fortunately, the young black woman on the panel schooled her expertly and shut her up. ATS (as Trump says), "Bigly."

toddwv

(2,830 posts)
14. Wow, Giuliani has been particularly sycophantic lately.
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 04:19 PM
Aug 2016

I wonder what position he was offered for his stoogery...

duncang

(1,907 posts)
15. The dems are missing a big talking point
Wed Aug 17, 2016, 04:32 PM
Aug 2016

On the news shows. Why did dipshit send his son first thing out of the convention to Philadelphia Mississippi?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_civil_rights_workers%27_murders

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