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US Election Series: African-Americans ponder upon the question posed by Trump

What has been worrying the Democrats lately is the question posed by Republican nominee Donald Trump at a rally in Wisconsin, where he asked the African-Americans to honestly judge, what the voting for Democrats for the past 50 years have actually done for them and with regard to his candidacy he asked the black voters, “what the hell do you have to lose?” by voting for him. Trump also visited African-American churches to gather supports from the African-American population.

Almost, since the beginning of the race, It has been foretold by pundits and pollsters that Trump would get only 1 percent of the black votes, whereas almost every Republican President in the history got at least 4-5 percent of all votes. After Trump’s attempt to gather support among African-Americans, these polls were predicting The Mr. trump would be receiving 15-20 percent of all black votes nationally. If these polls turn out to be accurate, it not only would be the highest percentage of black votes received by any Republican candidate in 50 years, it would also be the end of Hillary Clinton.

Trump’s reach out spooked the Democrats so much that President Barrack Obama came out saying that he would feel personally insulted if the black voters voted for Mr. Trump.

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