Dimondale, Michigan, sounds a lot like Poca, West Virginia. Population 1,243 (Poca 974), near a state capital, and 93% white. Odd place to campaign for president, as Democrats have carried Michigan the last six times. Odd place to make a pitch to black voters. But as General Teddy Roosevelt Jr. said on D-Day when they landed on the first wave a little off course, "We’ll start the war from right here!".
And so on Friday, Trump made his pitch from Dimondale:
Trump's speech followed up on a speech about race he gave on Monday in West Bend, Wisconsin, population 31,695 --- 95 percent of whom are white. Wisconsin last went Republican in 1984. His speech followed riots in Milwaukee.
...unlike previous Republican contenders, Trump has experience in dealing with black people as equals. Let the Never Trumpers laugh at the photos of Trump and Don King, Trump and Herschel Walker, and even Trump and Al Sharpton. Republicans have not had a presidential candidate as cosmopolitan as Trump. His conservatism is a little dearer because it grows out of the cracks of the sidewalks of Manhattan, and not the fertile fields of Texas.
Read what Trump said in his speeches here.
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