Posted on 08/20/2016 9:59:08 AM PDT by quesney
Donald Trump is undergoing a campaign pivot, but it doesn’t have anything to do with his remarks Thursday night that he regretted some of his statements (he left unspecified which) over the course of his raucous year-long campaign. Trump’s semi-apology set political pundits abuzz, but the most notable change in Trump’s rhetoric in recent weeks has really been his direct and repeated appeals towards African-Americans. It’s a shift that began before the Republican presidential nominee’s latest campaign shakeup—bringing in Breitbart News executive Steve Bannon Wednesday and parting ways with Paul Manafort—but Trump put a particularly fine point on it Thursday and Friday at rallies in states with significant black populations.
“No group in America has been more harmed by Hillary Clinton’s policies than African-Americans,” Trump said Friday afternoon in Dimondale, Michigan, just outside of Lansing. “To those hurting, I say: what do you have to lose by trying something new? One thing we know for sure is that
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Good! Thanks for sharing that.
Well it worked for 50 years. Let’s see if Donald Trump can end this racism 150 years early.
“A rising tide lifts all boats” :)
Obama has devastated race relations. It will take years to get back on track.
The first Black President turned out to be the worst President of all. Sad.
I submit that Trump’s policies will spur business. The spurring of business creates cash. It increases government revenues which means that SS, and Medicare will be on a more sound footing.
I also submit that government no spending a single dime to specifically improve Black’s lives, will none the less mean that Black unemployment will drop significantly. As business thrives, it thrives inside all communities.
I do believe it will reasoned for Trump to call together investors and all reasoned Black community leaders. Pastors, city figures, Black business owners, need to be asked to help motivate people in their community to pull together to improve the community. Knock off the violence and criminal activity. Create a climate where investors feel confident to invest.
Then talk to large corporate entities, and ask them to please focus on expanding into these neighborhoods. As they do, jobs and services flourish in the Black neighborhoods.
As Black leaders and the citizens of their communities see movement, pride will grow and those who are not contributing to an improved community, will be turned on by the other members of their community.
These concepts need to be presented so that a concerted effort to improve Black communities actually results in that happening.
This doesn’t require some sort of massive government intervention. I involves creating a healthy environment for local communities to heal and prosper.
I think Trump knows all this, and will implement it. In four years Blacks will see more of a change than they have their entire lives. A the end of eight, it will be a remarkable achievement.
The Democrat party would lose the Black vote entirely.
The economic improvement in these areas alone could cause a major boom for our overall economic figures.
Can’t wait to see the nation after this guy has had a chance to affect change.
Yes, I agree...
Yes, I agree with that.
After 60 years of entitlements, how many blacks will actually want jobs? There's a large bloc out there who get paid for doing nothing at all, and having to work for their money doesn't appeal. Easier to stay unemployed and keep their SNAP cards and Obamaphones.
It’s high time a Republican candidate asked black Americans for their vote. The Republican party has ceded that block to the Dems for far too long.
Smooth and smart. The consummate, “Art of the Deal”. ie: “What’ll it take for me to put you into that car today?”
I talk to the building guards when I get in early. Most of them work 2+ jobs.
I stated long ago that his policy on immigration alone would help him in the black community.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t!
Go Trump!
>>Frackin’ A. I want Trump to go for a landslide - including all the deep blue areas Dems have screwed and think they own.<<
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Absolutely. The purists that are always trying to recreate the exact Reagan coalition forget that they are no Reagan.
Trump is different . . . another original.
He is exactly who and what America needs at this critical hour——just as Reagan was what we needed in 1980, after the Nixon/Carter years of increasing economic crisis and the perceived invincibility of the Soviet Union.
Harpy may have to go to a black church and give her no ways tarred speech. Maybe have some fried chicken and watermelon after to seal the deal.
Pray America wakes
The only way for Republican candidates to compete for black votes is to make promises that a candidate can keep. Jack Kemp’s urban renewal approach didn’t work very well, so the only thing left is to exploit a simmering issue that hasn’t gotten a lot of attention: the threat that illegal immigrants represent to the black working class. Donald Trump is the only GOP candidate who has any credibility on this issue because the Beltway GOP has been an open-borders institution for years.
I am sick and tired of all this racist “identity politics” we’ve had, mostly from the D party machine bosses
but certainly Obama/Clinton/and the D’s generally have REALLYS SCREWED “black” Americans over, ROYALLY SCREWED THEM!
Indeed, as Donald Trump says, “what do they have to lose?!” by giving him a chance .......!?
He’s right ON ... he needs to keep reaching out to “black” Americans ...with this exact message.
“Why the gop has just ceded a 6th of the population to the ‘rats is a mystery.”
Up until the FDR years, most blacks voted Republican. ‘Party of Lincoln’ and all that. When the Dems stole them away, the Republicans didn’t fret, because at that time, they didn’t need the black vote to win elections like the Democrats did.
Since 1965 the Dems have been importing voters through our relaxed immigration rules. Even so, they’ve had to resort to allowing tens of millions of new ‘voters’ to come in illegally, in order to stay competitive with the Republicans.
Of all the voting blocks owned by the Dems, blacks are the most ripe for the taking by the Republicans, as they have a stronger ancestral and historical connection to America than any other Dem voting block.
Trump should just say to blacks, “Come home. This has always been your party.” He’s already offering a message of emancipation from a life of handouts and poverty. He merely needs to keep hammering in that basic point, and he’ll wind up with a bigger share of the black vote than Republicans normally get.
“The mainstream media are beside themselves with this new approach. For this cuts to the very heart of the Democrat success in most elections (national, regional and local).”
Of course they are, and of course it does. Mark my words: Trump is making (or will eventually make) a play for all the marbles — all the blue states, all demographics.
He’s building a new coalition of Americans that will defy the two-party kabuki crap we’ve had to put up with for so long.
His ego is just too big to win piecemeal.
Trump is correct...
The Democrat party only wants the Black Community for votes, they are very protective of the ‘down ridden’ areas they have placed the Black Community...
After Slavery was abolished, they brought the Black Community to the ‘inter cities’ and told them not to work, and let their homes decay and rot...this is to show the Black Community that they ‘government’ will take care of them and the only thing they have to do is vote as a Democrat...
Think I’m kidding...research it, read the history of the Slaves, and the ‘progressive’ party known as the Democrat Party...
Remember it was the Republicans that abolished Slavery, and it was the Democrat party that made the KKK after slavery was abolished, that’s how they keep the Black Community in line on the ‘plantation...the only ‘plantation’ they are on now is our inter cities run by Democrats...
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