Trump debate comment pushing Black Americans, others to vote

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When U.S. President Donald Trump refused to outright condemn white nationalists in this week's presidential debate and urged his supporters to monitor polling sites, Portia Roberson was reminded of earlier eras when Black Americans were intimidated at the polls to deter them from voting.

Roberson, a 51-year-old Black woman who lives in Detroit, found the comments chilling -- but also felt a renewed resolve to vote.

During the debate, he also urged his "supporters to go into the polls and watch very carefully because that's what has to happen." It's not just Black Americans who took notice -- and umbrage -- at the president's debate comments. Similar concerns are also reverberating among Americans from other backgrounds, said Anna Mach, a biracial Filipino American woman who is a master's student at the University of Denver.Since the coronavirus, which first flared in China, spread to the United States, Mach said she's seen a surge in hate directed toward Asian Americans.

Geng hopes younger Asian Americans who don't support Trump will talk to their relatives who do about their thinking and maybe change some minds. The rhetoric conjured up memories of Southern segregationists and voter intimidation tactics for the Rev. Wendell H. Paris, 75, who was involved in voting rights work in the 1960s including registration drives in Alabama and the Selma-to-Montgomery march.

Because of that history, University of Michigan political science professor Vincent Hutchings said he believes Trump's comments are stirring legitimate concerns that overzealous supporters will cause trouble at polling sites, particularly in Black communities.

 

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Hilarious as Trump has denounced publicly All far right groups, including the KKK A group whome have grand dragons shaking Bidens hand and supporting his senate bid for years

FFS !!!

He has condemned them dozens of times. You know who has brownshirts practicing voter intimidation on a scale never before seen? Google and see where it takes you. Click and see who is undermining democracy.

No one cares for blackface on PMJT or racist Biden locking black people.

Farleft fake news

Just wondering how many times Trump will have to publicly condemn white supremacists? I guess a dozen times isn't enough....meanwhile Biden gave the eulogy for a KKK member.

False! The black American support for conservatives is rapidly growing largely because they are realizing the Democrats have not been meeting much of their concerns for decades.

Here's the leader of the Proud Boys.

Why does CTV news keep running propaganda for the US Democrat party?

How about reporting lowest unemployment of blacks in Trump's economy, funding of black colleges, prison reform that freed alot of blacks convicted of minor offenses. But sure go off on statement. But don't mention the fact that KKK was labeled a terrorist org by the same admin.

The corporate press is the enemy of the people

JoeBiden is the only non racist to ever eulogize a Grand Wizard of the KKK. 😂😂😂😂

Joe Biden eulogized a KKKlansman (Robert Byrd) but Donald Trump is a white supremacist- right? Joe Biden- 'you ain't black if you don't vote for me'

Wow. You take 1 guy’s opinion and make a story out of it. Venezuelans, Cubans, and Columbian’s are overwhelmingly support Trump. They know socialism. A slight man of Mexicans do (they don’t know socialism). “Black” support has doubled+ since 2016. Keep trying.

Voting in ignorance is a wasted vote.

If I didn’t know better I’d say CTV News is racist towards whites.

You should really stop lying to people. This whole white supremacy nonsense is because of 1 thing and 1 thing only. realDonaldTrump is absolutely overwhelmingly taking the minority vote. That’s it. The media is trying to push a narrative. Anyone with half a brain sees it.

To vote for Trump.

Yet another Cdn anti-Trump story about realDonaldTrump being racist; media doing what it can to perpetuate this false narrative. He is simply asking for critical focus on Antifa and BLM, which the media refuses to do. Why not attack Biden’s comment that Antifa is an ‘idea’?

True. They're all voting for PRESIDENT TRUMP.

lies lies fake news paid by liberals

Seriously the anti Trump rhetoric is tiring. How many times must he condemn an obvious false narrative by the radical left? Why are you propagating hate within Canada?

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