GOP is confident that OG Donald J Trump will gain black support for 2020

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Republicans are confident that President Trump in 2020 can pick up support among black voters and that this overwhelmingly Democratic bloc could even provide Trump the winning edge in key swing states. “I can give an unqualified ‘yes’ on the idea that the president will be more popular on Election Day with blacks in 2020 than he was in 2016,” said Horace Cooper of Project 21 Black Leadership Network, a conservative public policy group. He pointed to the African-American unemployment rate, which reached a record low in 2018 of 5.9 percent, and the large number of African-Americans who no longer need food stamps under Trump. African-Americans have reliably voted Democratic since 1948, a trend that is unlikely to change. But a Morning Consult poll taken March 15 shows Trump’s approval rating among blacks sits at 12 percent, four percentage points higher than the eight percent of black Americans who voted for Trump in 2016.

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“Our plan remains to go after every single vote,” he said. He said the RNC has held and continues to hold tax reform panels, small business workshops, home buyers’ workshops, and other events in several states, which he said help “build and strengthen relationships with the African American community.” A senior White House official told the Examiner that the president has not received enough credit for policies that have helped African-Americans. “The media hasn’t always covered his work and outreach with African Americans and other minorities,” the official said. “It would be great if people would cover some of the work that we’ve done.”

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