August 21, 2016, 07:00 am
Eric Trump: My father will improve inner cities
By Nikita Vladimirov
Eric Trump, the son of the Republican presidential nominee, is echoing his father's recent outreach to minority voters around the country.
“You have a lot of people from inner cities, especially minorities, who aren’t getting higher-level education. The schools around them are totally failing them. There’s 60 percent unemployment in some of these communities," Trump said in a radio interview with John Catsimatidis for "The Cats Roundtable" on Sunday.
"We’re not giving the youth the opportunities that they so rightfully deserve. My father’s going to focus on that, and he's going to change that, and he’s going to fix it because it’s just not right," he added.
Donald Trump is currently struggling with minority votes, polling almost 0 percent support among African Americans is some key battleground states.
The GOP nominee is also losing the Hispanic vote to Hillary Clinton by 66 percent to 24 percent nationally, according to Pew survey conducted in mid-June.
Eric Trump also took the opportunity to blast President Obama and Clinton for not visiting Louisiana in the wake of the recent flooding in the state.
“Our president was spending time in Martha’s Vineyard playing golf while people’s houses were under water, and people's cars were underwater, and caskets were floating down the streets of Louisiana. People were dying and there was death and destruction and everything else," said Trump.
"Our president was nowhere to be found. And Hillary Clinton, nowhere to be found,” he added.
The flooding damaged nearly 40,000 homes and resulted in 13 deaths, according to the latest estimates.
The White House on Friday said that Obama would visit the Louisiana on Tuesday and provide assistance to the victims of the natural disaster.
Clinton said last week that she had spoken with Louisiana's governor and opted not to visit because it would be a "distraction" from relief efforts. Donald Trump and running mate Mike Pence surveyed the damage on Friday.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/292119-eric-trump-father-will-focus-on-fixing-inner-cities