Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has said African Americans and Latinos live in hell and that black people don't have jobs and get shot on the way to the grocery store, said Wednesday he has a "new deal" for African Americans. During a campaign event in North Carolina, a swing state for the presidential race, Trump told a mostly white crowd he will be the "greatest champion" of the black community if elected.
"Illegal immigration violates the rights of African Americans," Trump said. "No group has been more economically harmed by decades of illegal immigration than low-income African American workers."
Trump then went on to rant about Wikileaks and Hillary Clinton's plan for "open borders."
Trump also promised that, "unlike Hillary," he would "never, ever take the African American community for granted."
As he has throughout his campaign, Trump relied on racist stereotypes when speaking about African Americans. "I want every African American child to walk down the street in peace, and not get shot," Trump said. He added later that he wants to "work on a national plan for revitalization. I'm tired of being told it can't be done."
Trump held two events in North Carolina Wednesday, where a recent New York Times and Siena College poll shows he has 2 percent of the African American vote to Clinton's 88 percent.
