DIMONDALE -- On his second visit to Michigan in two weeks, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Friday blasted Democratic policies he said have destroyed Detroit and other urban centers and called for African Americans to support him, saying blacks cannot expect change otherwise.
Speaking to an almost all-white audience of about 6,000 people, Trump appealed directly to blacks for votes.
"You live in poverty," he said. "Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. What the hell do you have to lose?
Trump also promised to bring back American jobs, build a wall on the Mexican border, cut taxes and improve education and health care. But he was short on detail on how he would fix the last two areas, other than getting rid of the Common Core federal education guidelines and repealing the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
Accusing Clinton of preferring polices that would help refugees instead of blacks who have become "refugees in their own country," a feisty Trump promised job creation and a revitalization of manufacturing centers, saying Democrats are all "talk, talk, talk."
"Only a change in leadership will produce a change in outcomes," he thundered before a raucous suburban audience.
Trump's remarks, however, seemed somewhat out of place, given that he was delivering it in a hall outside Lansing, halfway across the state from the Detroit. He also hammered away on a message than Michigan manufacturing is in the dumps, just days after Gov. Rick Snyder -- also a Republican -- noted that unemployment in the state has dropped to its lowest levels since the early 2000s.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ld-trump-blows-through-mid-michigan/88957984/
Speaking to an almost all-white audience of about 6,000 people, Trump appealed directly to blacks for votes.
"You live in poverty," he said. "Your schools are no good. You have no jobs. What the hell do you have to lose?
Trump also promised to bring back American jobs, build a wall on the Mexican border, cut taxes and improve education and health care. But he was short on detail on how he would fix the last two areas, other than getting rid of the Common Core federal education guidelines and repealing the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
Accusing Clinton of preferring polices that would help refugees instead of blacks who have become "refugees in their own country," a feisty Trump promised job creation and a revitalization of manufacturing centers, saying Democrats are all "talk, talk, talk."
"Only a change in leadership will produce a change in outcomes," he thundered before a raucous suburban audience.
Trump's remarks, however, seemed somewhat out of place, given that he was delivering it in a hall outside Lansing, halfway across the state from the Detroit. He also hammered away on a message than Michigan manufacturing is in the dumps, just days after Gov. Rick Snyder -- also a Republican -- noted that unemployment in the state has dropped to its lowest levels since the early 2000s.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/loc...ld-trump-blows-through-mid-michigan/88957984/
