Trump adviser shrugs off the Hispanic vote: 'The ones that don't like Trump aren't even here legally'
Donald Trump doesn't seem to be having any luck snagging the Hispanic vote after his repeated anti-immigration remarks, so, his campaign adviser says, he's set his sights on another important minority group: black voters. "Our goal is 100 percent," Trump lawyer and adviser Michael Cohen told Yahoo News. Cohen then lowered the bar, but just a bit: "Or to flip what has historically been the Democrats' 93 percent. That's Mr. Trump's goal."
Trump's campaign reportedly already has a strategy in the works for meeting this goal. "There are four things that are needed," Cohen said. "First... you've got to bring back God into the neighborhood. Number two, jobs. Three, tax incentives. You've got to create business in the neighborhood. And four, education."
But, analysts say, even the most carefully crafted of plans likely won't secure the entire black vote for a single Republican candidate, let alone for Trump. And Trump's campaign knows that he can't win with the support of the white working class alone — though that's certainly not prompting them to make nice with everyone.
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"The truth, yeah, I'm trying to coordinate it because I am mindful of the fact that, you know, there are coalitions and I'm talking about now like Hispanic coalitions that will not support Trump," Cohen said. "And that's OK because the ones that don't like Trump aren't even here legally and they can't vote, so it doesn't really matter, right?"
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