What he called them · 2016 campaign · № 46
Told Black voters in inner cities 'your schools are no good' and asked 'what the hell do you have to lose?'
“You live in your poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs, 58 percent of your youth is unemployed, what the hell do you have to lose?”
- Said
- , Campaign rally, Dimondale, Michigan
- Subject
- Black residents of U.S. inner cities
- Target
- American cities
- Place
- U.S. inner cities (nationwide)
- Topic
- Other
- Era
- 2016 campaign
What happened
Trump made the appeal to African American voters at a rally near Lansing. The Clinton campaign responded, 'This is so ignorant it's staggering,' AP reported. He repeated the line dozens of times through the fall, including in Akron on Aug. 22, 2016, where he said 'it's safer than living in some of our inner cities that are run by the Democrats.'