http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/18/monica-crowley-how-donald-trump-is-drawing-in-demo/?page=all#pagebreakBy Monica Crowley - The Washington Times - Wednesday, May 18, 2016
Black voters and other Democrats hurt by the Obama economy may rethink party allegiance
As Mr. Jones put it, if only 70 percent are against Mr. Trump, “that means 30 percent are open to his argument. If he gets half of those, he’s president.”
Mr. Trump isn’t going to win over huge numbers of black voters, but given his unconventional candidacy, he may attract enough black voters to win. Throughout the primaries, he has demonstrated substantial crossover appeal to Democrats, many of whom crossed party lines to vote for him (over 100,000 in Pennsylvania alone).
Further, Mr. Trump has centered his campaign on three issues that directly affect their livelihoods: a poor jobs outlook, illegal immigration and trade deals that have put American workers at significant disadvantages. Black unemployment remains the highest — at 9 percent — of any demographic. While the wages of white workers have remained flat and those of Hispanic workers have gone up, black workers’ wages have gone down under Mr. Obama. And black youth unemployment remains sky-high at more than 25 percent. Given that the black community has suffered disproportionately in the Obama economy, some black voters may be receptive to Mr. Trump’s economic message
As for Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Banks tweeted, “Hillary talks to black people as if we’re children or pets.” She also pointed out that blacks have been voting Democrat for decades and “we don’t have [bleep] to show for it.”
