SHOCKER!
Public Policy Polling released a preview of a new poll on “The Rachel Maddow Show” Monday night that showed Donald Trump’s favorability rating among African-American voters at 0 percent. thehill.com/...
xTrump’s popularity with African-American voters polling at zerohttps://t.co/NR5BJ4uqlDpic.twitter.com/QW18dmFOvf
— The Hill (@thehill) August 30, 2016 xThe good news for Donald Trump in this PPP exclusive? Lots of opportunity for growth!#Maddow#BrightSidespic.twitter.com/6g5pny5usq
— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) August 30, 2016Trump’s historic low ratings with Black voters come as no surprise. He has made racism and bigotry cornerstones of his campaign. To make matters worse, Trump’s recent “outreach” to African American voters has consisted of dehumanizing black communities to white audiences and declaring that he will be their great white savior.
Jonathan Capehart nails it when he describes Trump’s “outreach” as paternalism:
Ain’t no bar low enough for Donald Trump
In the past three days we have seen, again, that the general offensiveness of Donald Trump has no bounds. That no personal tragedy is too painful for him to exploit. Ruth Marcus, in a blog post about the Republican presidential nominee’s statement on the separation of Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin from her husband, Anthony Weiner, sums Trump up in what is an evergreen description. “This man has no decency and no shame,” she writes. That Trump would stoop so low as to attack a staffer on his opponent’s campaign is further proof (as if we weren’t drowning in it) that he is utterly incapable of rising above anything.
And this comes amid Trump’s ongoing paternalism that is the foundation of his so-called pitch to African Americans and Latino. This Monday morning tweet from Trump is yet another example.
xLook how bad it is getting! How much more crime, how many more shootings, will it take for African-Americans and Latinos to vote Trump=SAFE!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2016Oh, if only those black and brown people really understood what Trump is all about, they’d vote for him. If only they realized that he is the answer to their myriad problems and miserable lives. For God’s sake, what’s it going to take to get you people to vote for him? “What the hell do you have to lose?” If Trump didn’t insist on making his tone-deaf pitch to nearly all-white audiences, perhaps I’d take him seriously. But there’s no danger of that happening.
[But seriously, folks! Donald Trump is a stand-up comic]
Trump is taking his act to a black church in Detroit this weekend. Like anyone, African Americans love a free show. But they of all people know that the price for a full four-year performance is too high for them and for the nation to pay.
