SERIOUSLY?
Donald Trump’s racist action’s are LOUDER then any bull-shit attempt to try to sell Black voters to lose their minds and support him…
This from Politico….
President Donald Trump is looking to woo black voters — if he can make them forget about his tweets.
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.
Critics may find the timing of the outreach outrageous. But the campaign hopes that if it can shave off just a few points off Democrats’ overwhelming support among blacks, it can boost voter turnout in eight or so key states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania — each of which Trump won by less than one percentage point.
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, which are meant to bolster investment in underserved or poorer cities.
When Trump took office in January 2017, the unemployment rate among blacks was 7.7 percent. Friday’s jobs report pegged it at 6 percent for July.
“Do I think some of his verbal formulations are in artful? Yeah,” said Ken Blackwell, the former mayor of Cincinnati, former Ohio Secretary of State and a top Trump transition official. “But for me, as a domestic policy adviser during the Trump transition, it has been all about the agenda, a set of results and tomorrow. You have to believe his policy agenda flies in the face of the false narrative of the racist-in-charge.”
But for others, the Trump rhetoric cannot be divorced from his record, and critics argue he must take responsibility for that as president. A recent Quinnipiac University National Poll, released on July 30, showed that 80 percent of African American voters surveyed considered Trump racist….
image…CNN.Com
Nothinew.
Republicans ,and contrary to your and CGs best efforts, Trump is the quintessential Republican,are always into these “Minority outreach “gambits.
They go nowhere.
Republican support among Blacks always hovers around 10%.Trump will likely be on the low end of the scale.
Agreed on the bull shit reach out to blacks, browns and yellows ….
What I’ve heard from and read by partisan Democrats is that any token affirmations of pluralism and equal rights by most Republicans are not in fact aimed at minority voters, but at white swing voters (e.g. the Soccer Mom or the Dayton Machinist’s Wife) who — as good Christians and Jews — sympathize with the oppressed and actually believe in equal rights.
That doesn’t mean that there are no white Anglo Republicans who genuinely believe in civil rights, equality and opportunity, strongly coupled to self-help and mutual aid, in the tradition of the original Republican Party. A good example might be Jack Kemp who famously said that he had showered with more black people than most Republicans had ever met in their lives.
Unlike the Rockefeller-Romney model of liberal (so called me-too) Republicanism, the more conservative of the genuine GOP & Libertarian champions of equality (e.g. the Cato Institute) will often also (together with black evangelical Republicans like J.C. Watts) place blame for continued inequality on government regulation and creating the so-called culture of dependency.
it STILL doesn’t excuse Trump’s throw downs against certain types and women….
the piece linked even points to view that
we should disregard Trump’s words…
it’s Trump’s party….
so?
while the party people might be thinking of the future when Trump’s gone?
they have been almost mute in countering his big fucking mouth
Yeah and when tax cuts for the rich and showcasing the few minorities– usually business owners and often resentful of fellow blacks not as successful as they are–doesn’t work they will go back to calling the vast majority of African Americans who reject GOP policies fools.
Followed up with a reference to the Democratic Party as a plantation and Democratic politicians as akin to slaveholders. Because remember they were the party of the Confederacy 150 yrs ago. 0ay no mind to what party waves that treasonous flag today.
Rinse. Repeat. Same ole song and dance. Only with Trump the racial dog whistles are replaced with bullhorns. Which will account for him getting even lower vote totals among blacks than most GOP nominees (as Jack noted)
I wonder if Trump’s 2016 appeal to blacks, “How can you do any worse?”, would work for or against him this time.
Probably no better then back then….
Well?
They ain’t doing any better like it seems he wants to try and sell….
Dan Balz: “Trump commands rank-and-file support in a remade Republican Party, but there are plenty of other indications suggesting that many Republican officials and strategists fear the effects of his disruptive behavior and tactics. Having attacked the four young House females, he spent last week attacking Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), who is African American, and running down the city of Baltimore.”
“Republican officials worry that, the longer the president continues down the path of nativism and of stoking racial division, the more the GOP is at risk of seeing its coalition shrink, eventually to become a party almost exclusively for and of white voters and particularly of older men.”…
Politicalwire…
Transcripts of the last two black Republican members of Congress* — Rep. Will Hurd (Texas) and Sen. Tim Scott (S. Carolina) — on CBS’s Face the Nation this morning, each of them a little too long to copy and paste here
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-rep-will-hurd-on-face-the-nation-august-4-2019/
https://news.immitate.com/2019/08/04/transcript-sen-tim-scott-on-face-the-nation/
* As I wrote earlier, every Negro member of Congress from 1870 to 1935 was a Republican.