Donald Trump is going to Detroit to do minority outreach

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last updated 6 September 2016

Republican Donald Trump will visit Detroit, Michigan, a majority-black city, as part of his ongoing minority outreach efforts Saturday. Trump is scheduled to visit a church and tour some city neighborhoods while accompanied by Ben Carson, the African-American doctor who was Trump's rival in the GOP primaries and is himself a Detroit native.

The nominee will also do an interview with the church's pastor and media personality, Bishop Wayne T. Jackson, who characterized the candidate's intentions as a response to widespread criticism "for preaching to African-Americans from a backdrop of white people."

Other Detroit clergy are planning a silent protest outside Jackson's church, and Trump's plan has been met with mixed responses from Detroit locals. "You don't invite the devil into your house," said one woman, Donna Lewis, to The Associated Press. "He's a racist. He can't help nobody. I don't think he has enough ability to run the country." Trump's support among black voters nationally is in the single digits.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.