GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump continued his supposed outreach to African-American voters on Wednesday with a pair of events at a black church in Ohio.
The first function, which the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights billed as a “meeting on African-American concerns,” featured Trump flanked by a few of his most prominent black supporters. Pastor Darrell Scott played host as a leader of the church. Legendary boxing promoter and convicted killer Don King introduced Trump, at one point dropping the N-word. The setting may have projected an air of diversity and inclusion, but it was a mostly white audience that sat and listened as Trump declared black communities can’t get “much worse” and that only he could “fix it.”
The crowd certainly didn’t appear to reflect the church’s usual congregation or the general population of Cleveland Heights, which is 42.5 percent black, according to the most recent Census figures.
By this point, the frequent lack of diversity at Trump’s events, and among his supporters more broadly, has been well documented. Like many Republican candidates, Trump has struggled to court people of color, especially African-Americans. His support among black voters has fallen as low as 0 percent in a few swing states, according to some polls.
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The first function, which the New Spirit Revival Center in Cleveland Heights billed as a “meeting on African-American concerns,” featured Trump flanked by a few of his most prominent black supporters. Pastor Darrell Scott played host as a leader of the church. Legendary boxing promoter and convicted killer Don King introduced Trump, at one point dropping the N-word. The setting may have projected an air of diversity and inclusion, but it was a mostly white audience that sat and listened as Trump declared black communities can’t get “much worse” and that only he could “fix it.”
The crowd certainly didn’t appear to reflect the church’s usual congregation or the general population of Cleveland Heights, which is 42.5 percent black, according to the most recent Census figures.
By this point, the frequent lack of diversity at Trump’s events, and among his supporters more broadly, has been well documented. Like many Republican candidates, Trump has struggled to court people of color, especially African-Americans. His support among black voters has fallen as low as 0 percent in a few swing states, according to some polls.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-black-voters_us_57e2c70ce4b0e80b1b9fc038?
