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The title and the show implies that this singular demographic are the trump vanguard, and that is simp,y not the case.
Middle class white Americans, and black Americans are also supporting Trump.
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Not that much support amongst black voters.
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...g-black-voters
That poll is at the low end of his support but it appears to have been dropping for a while. Usually around 5%. It's certainly low enough that it's not incorrect to talk of him having hardly any support there. When we talk about 'who is voting for whom' we mean demographically rather than individually.
The newsworthy element of the Trump support is his connection to 'blue-collar' workers in declining industrial areas of America. People impacted by globalisation etc.
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Also how is Trump a racist *******? Please advise where and when he has put forward the proposition that white Americans are superior to other Americans of different ethnic genealogy
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If we're going to get into the semantic argument where you won't believe he has made racist statements unless explicitly given an example where he gives a textbook demonstration then you probably won't be convinced. However I think racism has a wider meaning which includes judging people based on their race, discriminating against people because of their race and so on.
Here are some examples:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...5317&tid=ss_tw
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“I’ve got black accountants at Trump Castle and at Trump Plaza — black guys counting my money!” O’Donnell’s book quoted Trump as saying. “I hate it. The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day. Those are the kind of people I want counting my money. Nobody else. . . . Besides that, I’ve got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is; I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.”
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“A well-educated black has a tremendous advantage over a well-educated white in terms of the job market,” Trump said on the program. “I think sometimes a black may think they don’t have an advantage or this and that. I’ve said on one occasion, even about myself, if I were starting off today, I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage.”
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I am confident enough to say these statements are 'out there' and I don't think the news media should accept this as the norm in an effort to be 'unbiased'. These are statements made by a candidate to the be the next President of the United States. We shouldn't pretend he is just as valid as any other candidate in the name of balance.