The Trump surrogate's comments, made during a Black voter outreach event in Philadelphia, sparked outrage from Democrats.
The Trump surrogate’s comments, made during a Black voter outreach event in Philadelphia, sparked outrage from Democrats.
He criticized decades-old policies that he said ultimately destroyed the American family by making generations of Black Americans dependent on the federal government for support. He cited former President Dwight Eisenhower’s creation of the Civil Rights-era Department of Health, Education and Welfare, known then as HEW, and later policies enacted under former President Lyndon Johnson. He suggested Biden’s administration is continuing those policies of dependance.
One person in the crowd, mostly made up of self-identified Black Republicans, shouted “Bingo!” to voice agreement with Donads’ remarks.and blasted out over email by Biden campaign officials, and even prompted a response from the top House Democrat on Wednesday. “Donald Trump spent his adult life, and then his presidency undermining the progress Black communities fought so hard for — so it actually tracks that his campaign’s ‘Black outreach’ is going to a white neighborhood and promising to take America back to Jim Crow,“ Biden-Harris spokesperson Sarafina Chitika said in a statement. and former NBC Sports broadcaster Michele Tafoya.
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