Greg
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Biden apologized during a call with black community leaders, saying that “perhaps I was much too cavalier.”
Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is launching a $1 million digital ad blitz aimed at capitalizing on Joe Biden’s inflammatory remark that African American voters “ain’t black” if they’re considering voting for the president.
The Trump campaign is planning to run a video montage highlighting Biden’s Friday morning comment on “The Breakfast Club,” a popular black radio program. It will also air an ad focusing on Biden’s support for the 1994 crime bill which, the spot says, resulted in mass incarceration and “destroyed millions of black lives.”
Biden set off a firestorm Friday morning when he told the program’s co-host, Charlamagne tha God, that “if you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t black.”
The former vice president later apologized during a call with black community leaders, saying that “perhaps I was much too cavalier.”
“I know that the comments have come off like I was taking the African American vote for granted. But nothing could be further for the truth. I’ve never ever done that and I’ve earned it every time I’ve run,” he added.
The Trump reelection effort immediately moved to take advantage of Biden’s remark. The campaign hosted a press call with adviser Katrina Pierson and South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, began selling a “#YouAintBlack” t-shirt, and launched a website highlighting Biden’s comments.
Late Friday, the campaign started its advertising blitz. The “You ain’t black” montage is slated to run nationally, while the spot focused on the crime bill will air in swing states. The ads will appear on an array of platforms, including Instagram, Facebook, and Google.
The Trump campaign has been aggressively courting black voters for months. The president received just 8 percent of the black vote in 2016, though his advisers contend that even a small uptick in African American support could be enough to tilt the balance in swing states. The reelection effort has run ads in black community newspapers and signed leases to open up retail stores in African American neighborhoods.
In February, the campaign spent millions of dollars on a Super Bowl commercial drawing attention to Trump’s work on criminal justice reform. The TV spot told the story of Alice Johnson, a black woman whose lifetime sentence for a nonviolent drug offense was commuted by the president.
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What have the Dems done for the black community? Besides creating KKK and launching Planned Parenthood, to kick start a black genocide programme? Yet, expect the same community to only vote for Dems.
Democrats enslave blacks by poverty wages, while Republicans kill off the blacks in wars of aggression. And so, which is the better of two evils?
Given ’em free tokens for the subway?
In capitalism, the educated upper-half of society hoards all the land, wealth and political power, and while the upper-half is motivated and controlled by profit, with your share of profit being in direct proportion to your ability to hoard wealth, the lower-half laboring-class is kept enslaved by poverty and the terrorism of a police state. On the other hand, in socialism everyone is turned into an ingrate, for the moral fabric of society is destroyed with no ability to perform compassion or charity, and no one to be grateful to. Comes now Covert 19 to make both capitalism and socialism… Read more »
Oh stop it. Capitalism allows for the allocation of capital to spur growth. What the hell’s wrong with that? Just because its guiding hand sometimes ends up pinching someone else’s pocket doesn’t justify chopping it off.
Why spend a $million when he can just pay $50k to some russian trolls and get a hundred times the result? lol