At a speech in Michigan Friday afternoon, Donald Trump made a pitch to African-American voters saying, “What do you have to lose by trying something new like Trump?”
Donald Trump's pitch to black voters: "What the hell do you have to lose?" https://t.co/JBVJBFeFzq pic.twitter.com/T7WQsYAOGz
— CNN (@CNN) August 19, 2016
Transcript here:
Trump to blacks: "What do you have to lose? You're living in poverty. Your schools are no good. You have no jobs." pic.twitter.com/LCWDwIf5Ju
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 19, 2016
Trump used a TelePromTer for the speech, but not all of it. According to Bloomberg’s Sahil Kapur, the middle to paragraphs above were off the cuff:
BTW, only the first and last sentences here seem to be in prepared remarks. The rest is ad libbed. https://t.co/EudHCZGjIm
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) August 19, 2016
He went on to ask for “every single African-American vote”:
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/766759771311579136
And he called African-Americans refugees in their own country:
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/766759114148028416
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Trump went on to say he will use the “billions of dollars” saved via his “extreme vetting” of immigrants to create a “new jobs program for inner city youth”:
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/766760078284296196
Trump made a prediction that in 4 years he win “over 95-percent of the African-American” vote:
At rally today, Trump boldly predicted "at the end of four years, I guarantee you, I will get over 95-percent of the African-American vote."
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) August 19, 2016
That would be quite an accomplishment as he’s polling at around 2% now with the group:
https://twitter.com/SopanDeb/status/766758676891701248
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