He swayed to the music, praised black Christians and rolled out Detroit native Dr. Ben Carson for good measure. President George W. Bush received 9 percent of the black vote in 2000 and 11 percent in 2004. President Bush employed a strategy that awarded him double-digit support of blacks and over 40 percent of the Hispanic vote. He didn’t talk to black people like a monolith known as “black people.” He didn’t stereotype all blacks or Hispanics as acting or thinking in a certain way. I want to be able to support Mr. Trump in November.

Source: New York Times September 05, 2016 07:18 UTC