Trump asks: What do you have to lose? Indian-origin teenager dumps Trump after eviction from rally
WOOING AFRICAN AMERICANS GOP nominee says he will poll at 95% support from community after four years
what the hell do you have to lose?”
That was awkward. The headline of a Washington Post analytical piece caught it well: “It’s hard to imagine a much worse pitch Donald Trump could have made for the black vote.”
Though he went off-script in this instance, this was a theme Trump had essayed the day before in North Carolina where he asked for a chance, making the same you-have-nothing-tolose argument.
Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign hit back saying African Americans had “everything” to lose by supporting a man “who questions the citizenship of the first African American President” and calling Trump someone who “courts white supremacists, and has been sued for housing discrimination against communities of colour”.
Trump is struggling with nonwhite votes, having antagonised Hispanics with his comment early in the race about Mexicans being criminals and rapists.
He has done no better with African Americans. At a campaign rally in California in June, he called out to a black supporter saying, “Look at my African American over there.”
Trump has gone on to claim in his bombastic manner that if the community gives him a chance, he will do so much for them he will be polling at 95% support from the community after four years. For now, however, he is getting only 1% nationally to Clinton’s 85%, according to a Fox News poll earlier this month. In key swing states Ohio and Pennsylvania, he is scoring zero.
Among Hispanics, Trump is trailing Clinton by 60 points.
He is running 5.7 points behind his Democratic rival in the RealClearPolitics average of polls nationally, and is fighting a growing perception that his campaign is in trouble.
He parted ways with his campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Friday, two days after naming Stephen Bannon, a hard-charging media executive, his campaign chief executive officer. NEW DELHI: An Indian-origin US college student who was ejected from a Donald Trump rally has said he’s gone from avid backer to disillusioned opponent because he feels he was racially profiled.
Jake Anantha, an 18-year-old student of Central Piedmont Community College, was removed from the rally on Thursday after Trump’s security staff accused him of being a known protester, The Charlotte Observer reported.
He is registered as a Republican and planned to cast his first vote for Trump. CNN reported he was wearing a pro-Trump shirt with another pro-Trump shirt underneath.
Anantha and his father, Ramesh Anantha, who works in financial services, said they believed he was profiled because of his dark skin.
“I do think it’s because I’m brown,” Anantha was quoted as saying.
He was approached by a member of Trump’s security team and then ushered out by police from the Charlotte Convention Center before the rally began.
Anantha was told he resembled another man who has previously disrupted Trump’s rallies.
“It’s unbelievably ironic,” said Ramesh Anantha, whose parents immigrated from India. He said his son, as a young person of color appearing at a rally where Trump spoke about his support for people of colour, “should have been looked at as a perfect Trump supporter”.
Anantha added, “I’m a huge Trump supporter. I would never protest against Trump.”
Explaining his political beliefs, Anantha said described himself as a conservative and expressed views similar to those of Trump, including opposition to Black Lives Matter protesters and his belief that “radical Islam is a large threat” to the United States.
Anantha tweeted later that he would vote for Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson in the presidential elections in November.
“I couldn’t believe what was going on,” he was quoted as saying by CNN.
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