Pres. Trump’s pitch to the black community runs up against his record over the course of his presidency of racially divisive language.
In his pursuit to broaden his base ahead of 2020, President Donald Trump on Friday launched a"Black Voices for Trump" coalition — an effort to coalesce what is usually a dedicated Democratic-leaning voting bloc around his re-election campaign.
Trump’s outreach to the African American community comes as Trump tries to make inroads with this key demographic by shifting the focus to what campaign officials say are the positive aspects of his record, such as the First Step Act, portrayed as a significant stride in criminal justice reform signed into law late last year, low unemployment rates, which have remained below 4% overall and below 6% for African Americans in recent months, according to an October survey by the Bureau of Labor...
The Trump campaign argues that the president has"strong support" among black Americans. But politically, he has struggled to convert his commitments to African Americans into enthusiasm from the minority group. Earlier this year, Cummings drew the president’s ire after he criticized Trump’s immigration agenda -- and Trump responding with a slew of incendiary comments claiming Baltimore, part of which the congressman represented, as a"a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess" in which"no human being would want to live."
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