{"id":17155,"date":"2016-09-22T00:28:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T00:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17155"},"modified":"2016-09-22T00:28:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T00:28:26","slug":"trump-makes-weird-pitch-to-black-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17155","title":{"rendered":"Trump makes weird pitch to black voters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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So much about Donald J. Trump’s bizarre presidential candidacy confounds me.<\/p>\n

Let’s start with the fact that he’s making a race of it against Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Republican nominee has insulted his way to this competitive situation. In other election cycles, it would be a deal-breaker.<\/p>\n

Now comes his bizarre “outreach” to African-American voters.<\/p>\n

He tells white<\/em> audiences that black<\/em> voters are living in the worst neighborhoods imaginable; he tells them blacks attend inferior schools and are getting an inferior education; he says African-American neighborhoods are more dangerous than cities and towns in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/09\/is-trump-racist-228472<\/a><\/p>\n

But here’s the best part.<\/p>\n

He says — again to white audiences — that President Barack Obama is the worst president in history and that race relations are at their lowest ebb “ever, ever” under the president’s leadership.<\/p>\n

Yep, he tells a key American demographic group that holds Obama in high esteem that the man they adore is leading the nation straight to hell in a handbag.<\/p>\n

This is how Trump seeks to win the hearts and minds of voters who — according to those pesky polls — cannot stomach the notion of this guy becoming president of the United States?<\/p>\n\n

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So much about Donald J. Trump’s bizarre presidential candidacy confounds me. Let’s start with the fact that he’s making a race of it against Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Republican nominee has insulted his way to this competitive situation. In other election cycles, it would be a deal-breaker. Now comes his bizarre “outreach” to … Continue reading Trump makes weird pitch to black voters<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[6583,1424,2139],"class_list":["post-17155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-black-voters","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17157,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17155\/revisions\/17157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}