美国共和党总统候选人唐纳德·川普在最不可能的场合--在几乎所有与会者都是白人选民的集会上不断呼吁非洲裔美国选民支持他。
川普星期六在中西部农业州爱奥华的竞选集会上向非洲裔选民发出他的最新吁求。他对主要是白人的与会者说，他把美国很多城市中心的恶劣环境归咎于民主党几十年来的政策。他称对手—民主党总统候选人希拉里·克林顿为偏执狂，说她不去改善黑人和拉美裔美国人的悲惨境地。
川普说：“作为一个父亲，一个建筑商，一个美国人，看到任何人居住在这等条件里都会触犯我的是非观。他们的居住条件太差了，糟糕到令人无法相信的地步，太糟糕了。”
全国民调显示，克林顿在黑人和拉美裔选民中拥有的支持率遥遥领先于川普，他们是选民人数增长最快的一部分人。与此同时，川普在白人选民中的领先优势并不大。政治分析人士说，川普争取少数族裔选民的努力意在削减克林顿在黑人与拉美裔选民中占有的优势，而且还希望赢得更多妇女以及共和党温和派的支持，这些人也许会倾向于支持克林顿，因为他们把川普看成是一个种族主义者。
川普从竞选初期便把一些从墨西哥边界涌入美国的非法移民打上强奸犯和罪犯的标签。他仍坚持他的标志性竞选承诺，呼吁修建一道边界围墙阻止移民涌入美国。不过，过去几天，他誓言要把1100万居住在美国的非法移民遣送回国的立场有所动摇。
U.S. Republican presidential contender Donald Trump is making repeated appeals for support from African-American voters at the unlikeliest of venues, at rallies where almost all the voters are white.
Trump made his latest pitch for black votes Saturday at a political rally in the Midwest farm state of Iowa, telling the largely white crowd that he blamed decades of Democratic policies for the "deplorable conditions in many of our inner cities." He has called Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent in the November 8 presidential election, a bigot for not improving the plight of blacks and Hispanics.
“As a father, as a builder, as an American," Trump said, "it offends my sense of right and wrong to see anyone living in such conditions. They are living in terrible, terrible conditions. Beyond belief: bad, bad, bad.”
National political surveys show Clinton has amassed a huge lead over Trump among black and Hispanic voters, the fastest growing segment of the American electorate, while he holds a much smaller lead among white voters. Political analysts say his appeal for minority voters is aimed at cutting into Clinton's edge among black and Hispanic voters, but also an effort to win more support from women and politically moderate Republicans who might be inclined to support Clinton because they view Trump as a racist.
From the earliest days of his campaign, Trump branded undocumented immigrants pouring over the Mexican border into the U.S. as rapists and criminals. He continues to call for construction of a border wall to thwart the stream of migrants entering the United States, a signature of his campaign, but has wavered with shifting positions in the last few days about his vow to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States to their home countries.
