Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stepped up his bid to win over minority voters by addressing a largely black church in Detroit on Saturday and calling for a new civil rights agenda to support African-Americans. Trump separately met with about 100 community and church leaders, his campaign said, in his latest push to peel away minority voters from Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton. Accompanying Trump to the church was Ben Carson, the former Republican presidential hopeful who grew up in the city and whose childhood neighbourhood Trump visited on Saturday. Vicki Dobbins, an activist protesting outside, said she was disappointed the church asked Trump to speak. "I believe that Trump coming to Detroit is a joke, and I'm ashamed of the pastor who invited him," she said.

Source: dna September 04, 2016 03:56 UTC