The 2024 Presidential Election is simply months away, and the orange menace, aka Donald Trump, is on a mission to pry away Black and Latino voters from President Biden, however his plan continues to be the purest of jigs.
The Related Press stories that former disgraced president Donald Trump needs to carry some type of massive marketing campaign occasion at Madison Sq. Backyard that includes Black hip-hop artists (in all probability Afroman) and athletes.
Trump additionally needs to go to locations like Chicago, Detroit, and Atlanta and meet with native leaders of coloration, in keeping with his aides, in hopes of flipping Democratic constituents.
5 months from what can be one of the consequential Presidential elections of our lifetime, Trump and his sorry a** staff haven’t accomplished any outreach to the Black and Latino voters.
In addition they made some selections that point out the Trump marketing campaign may care much less about connecting with Black and Brown voters.
Per the Related Press:
The Trump marketing campaign eliminated its level individual for coalitions and hasn’t introduced a substitute. The Republican Get together’s minority outreach places of work throughout the nation have been shuttered and changed by companies that embody a check-cashing retailer, an ice cream store and a sex-toy retailer. And marketing campaign officers concede they’re weeks away from rolling out any focused applications.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has struggled to navigate a messy transition into the final election stricken by staffing points, his private authorized troubles and the “Make America Nice Once more” motion’s disdain for so-called “identification politics.” There are indicators of frustration on the bottom, the place Republicans consider Trump has an actual alternative to shift the election by reducing into President Joe Biden’s benefits with voters of coloration.
Longtime Trump ally and Black pastor Darrell Scott spoke on the Trump marketing campaign’s lack of outreach to voters of coloration, including, “To be fairly sincere, the Republican Get together doesn’t have a cohesive engagement plan for Black communities.”
He continued, “What it has are conservatives in communities of coloration who’ve taken it upon themselves to move our personal initiatives.”
Now, when you ask Trump, he would possibly argue his Atlanta Chick-fil-A stunt, a staged look at a bodega in Harlem, his restricted version wack gold sneakers, or his claiming Blacks relate to him due to his indictments is his try at making inroads with Black voters.
If that’s the case, he wants to transform his technique as a result of we don’t consider him; he wants extra folks.
