An opportunity
Donald Trump is set to field reporters’ questions at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention in Chicago on Wednesday, as he re-tools his presidential campaign to combat his likely rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
It’s hard to imagine he will come out of that looking good.
Trump will be speaking with Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, ABC News senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott and politics reporter Kadia Goba of Semafor. It will be livestreamed at 1 p.m. ET on the group’s Facebook and YouTube pages.
The event gives Trump, who won just 12% of Black voters in his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden, an opportunity to directly appeal to voters of color.
Well, yes, and it also gives him an opportunity to antagonize voters of color, and/or to make a complete fool of himself.
The difficulty (for Trump) is that he’s already done such a thorough job of appealing to voters of racism that it’s tricky for him to pretend otherwise now.
The Trump campaign, in a press release Monday night announcing his NABJ appearance, claimed that he “accomplished more for Black Americans than any other president in recent history.”
And everyone laughed.
I read something recently (can’t recall where) about him going on one of his anti-immigration rants when talking to (at?) an audience comprised mainly of Black Americans. Apparently he said something along the lines of ‘immigrants are flooding over the Southern border and taking away Black jobs’. I do hope one of the journalists at the upcoming event asks him about that, and specifically about what exactly constitutes a ‘Black job’, given that the majority of those immigrants who find work are employed to do the most menial and/or back-breaking jobs for very little pay.
Let’s deem the US presidency a “black job” or even “women’s work” — I’m all for it.
It seems to have gone about as well as you’d expect.
Ya, I just watched all but the last 4 minutes or so, for my sins. Hurrrrggghhh.
AoS @ 1 – She did.