President Donald Trump appears to have ceased his outreach efforts to African-American voters despite the upcoming midterm elections, The Washington Post reports.
The Post’s Eugene Scott notes in “The Fix,” that “Trump won a higher percentage of black voters than the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. But in the first election that is a referendum on his presidency, Trump appears to have abandoned any effort to turn out black voters for his party.”
Although Trump attempted to reach out to black voters in 2016, “many black voters labeled his portrayal of the black American experience as offensive and condescending,” according to Scott.
The Washington Post writer notes that at one rally in Akron, Ohio, Trump said that some inner city neighborhoods in the U.S. are worse than “war zones in countries that we are fighting,” and that black Americans have “no housing, no homes, no ownership. Crime at levels that nobody has seen.”
Scott also notes that “the black unemployment rate hit its lowest number in history during Trump’s presidency,” but he hasn’t made an effort to travel to places with large numbers of black residents despite holding many rallies in small, mostly-white cities.
He concludes that “in theory, Trump could have crossed the country delivering a multipronged message to Americans of different ethnic groups about why the GOP is the best political group to advance the United States. But… instead of making a potentially laughable effort to convince black Americans that he wants to improve their lives, Trump has chosen to address the concerns of white Americans in his base.”
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