Trump says his criminal indictments boosted his appeal to Black voters - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : "I would go for Biden just because Trump has his own agenda.
60% : That's how far I've come," Trump said to laughter from the audience.
54% : In a freewheeling speech, Trump mixed his regular campaign remarks with appeals to the Black community and jokes that touched on race.
53% : And while Black voter enthusiasm for Biden has cooled over the last year, only 25% of Black Americans said they had a favorable view of Trump in a December AP-NORC poll.
51% : "When I did the mug shot in Atlanta, that mug shot is No. 1," he said, adding: "You know who embraced it more than anyone else?
45% : Black voters who spoke with The Associated Press ahead of the gala expressed skepticism that Republicans, and Trump in particular, could persuade them to switch parties.
42% : "I got indicted for nothing, for something that is nothing," Trump told a black-tie event for Black conservatives in South Carolina ahead of Saturday's Republican primary.
36% : "I have to tell you, Black president, but I got $1.7 billion less," Trump said.
34% : "Trump has a long history of stoking racial tensions.
30% : "Trump has centered his third campaign for the White House on his grievances against Biden and what he alleges is a "deep state" targeting him, even as he faces charges from his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, keeping classified documents at his Florida estate, and allegedly arranging payments to a porn actress.
29% : From his earliest days as a New York real estate developer, Trump has faced accusations of racist business practices.
27% : Trump noted the mug shot taken by Georgia authorities after he was indicted on state racketeering charges over the 2020 election.
20% : Earlier in the week, Trump compared himself to Alexei Navalny, Russian President Vladimir Putin's top domestic rival, who died in a remote Arctic prison after being jailed by the Kremlin leader.
20% : "Trump's campaign has predicted he can do better with Black voters in November than he did four years ago, citing Biden's faltering poll numbers with Black adults and what Trump sees as advantages on issues like the economy and the record-high number of people crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, often ending up in cities with large Black populations.
20% : When he was president, Trump derided "shithole countries" in Africa and said four congresswomen of color should go back to the "broken and crime-infested" countries they came from, ignoring the fact that all of the women are American citizens and three were born in the U.S.
14% : "Isaac Williams Sr., a retired cook from Columbia and a lifelong Democrat, said he disliked both parties but found Trump to "have mobster tendencies.
8% : Trump argues he is the victim of political persecution, even though there is no evidence President Joe Biden or White House officials influenced the filing of 91 felony charges against him.
7% : In telling a story about how he renegotiated the cost of remodeling Air Force One, Trump criticized his predecessor, former President Barack Obama, the first Black person to be elected to the White House.

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