Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will venture to Detroit on Saturday to attend a roundtable discussion at a Black church, the latest in an effort to peel away Black voters from President Joe Biden ahead of November’s election.

Trump’s planned visit to a church nestled in the heart of Detroit’s west side has received fierce pushback from local Democrats and the Biden campaign who argued Trump did little as president to improve Black communities nationwide.

Trump has denigrated Detroit in the past as “corrupt,” but both he and Biden have identified Michigan as a must-win state, and the vote there is expected to be as close or closer than it was four years ago.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    112·
    5 months ago

    Also, it’s sort of around the time of Juneteenth! Juneteenth, MLK day and the first day of February are the three days the media remembers black people exist.

    • Stern@lemmy.world
      22·
      5 months ago

      Two more positive-ish occasions then the LGBT folks, so I suppose they have that going for them, which is nice.

      • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
        101·
        5 months ago

        LGBT folks are catered to A LOT more than black ppl. Mainly because LGBT ppl can be white. Now if you’re brown and LGBT you can’t pretty much fuck off as far as they’re concerned

        • Stern@lemmy.world
          41·
          5 months ago

          LGBT folks have like one day the media remembers (pride month… though really only the first) compared to the black folks three was all I was saying.