Donald Trump's continuing attempts to recruit Black voters are getting a thumbs down from some Black conservatives as being cursory. "trite" and larded with photo-ops that are not convincing anyone.
According to a new report from Politico, the former president's 2024 campaign is working on a dubious assumption that his legal problems make him more relatable to Black Americans and they are combining that with some staged appearances in the Black community.
As Politico's Brakkton Booker wrote, "Yet Trump’s attempts to reach out to Black voters can at times seem manufactured or clumsy," before noting the former president's appearance at a sneaker convention to promote a Trump athletic shoe that failed to make inroads outside of his MAGA base months ago.
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Trump's latest ploy was a pre-planned stop at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Atlanta where he was greeted by the fast food outlet's employees.
According to Booker, several Black conservatives in Georgia were unimpressed.
"Black conservative radio talk show host Sonnie Johnson called it a 'photo op' on social media," the report stated with Booker adding, "Felecia Killings, who runs a conservative think tank that specializes in Black outreach in Atlanta, derided it as trite."
According to Killings, "This is an unserious moment right now for Trump and Black outreach."
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The report also notes that Donald Trump Jr. has also been deployed to boost the former president's reputation with Black voters, with the report noting, "the president’s son touted how his father would help Black Americans if elected in November. He also compared the search by federal agents on Mar-a-Lago to the recent raids of Sean 'Diddy' Combs’ homes in Miami and Los Angeles, pointing out that both were 'b------t.'"
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