I am wondering this morning how much of Donald Trump's message gets through to the average American. In the last week, Trump has been making a very direct pitch to African American voters for their support. Trump has outlined the complete fifty year failure by Democrats to help that group and has explained why Hillary Clinton's policies would just be more of the same. Trump calls upon these voters to try something different. It's a powerful message, but only if it is actually heard by the black voting public, so it that message getting through?
There's no way to really know the answer to this question yet. The media coverage by the mainstream media buried Trump's message under headlines about changes in his campaign staff. Most people do not care in the least about the campaign manager for a candidate. When is the last time you recall someone telling you that he or she couldn't decide which candidate to select, so the decision rested on which one had the better campaign manager? The media, however, loves this stuff. Every election we get story after story about internal problems with this or that campaign as if that matters. To the extent that the media covered what Trump said this week, it focused on his statement that he "regrets" some of the things he said during appearances when he may have chosen the wrong words. It was a small part of his speech in North Carolina, but it got most of the coverage that made it to the mainstream media. Now there were news outlets that covered what Trump had to say. For example, Fox News covered Trump's speech in North Carolina in its entirety during the Greta Van Susteren show. That gave it an large audience, but I wonder about the composition of that audience. Talk radio also covered the speech and got the Trump message out. Nevertheless, I wonder how far that message gets.
Trump may yet have his chance to get this message out during the debates. If he can weave this appeal into his debate responses, it will get heard by the expected 75 million people tuning in to see the candidates. It's important, and I bet Trump will try that.
Remember, if even twenty percent of the African American vote goes to Trump this year, he will be president. That's what makes the Democrat's taking the black vote for granted so surprising. Without that vote, the Democrats just cannot win.
There's no way to really know the answer to this question yet. The media coverage by the mainstream media buried Trump's message under headlines about changes in his campaign staff. Most people do not care in the least about the campaign manager for a candidate. When is the last time you recall someone telling you that he or she couldn't decide which candidate to select, so the decision rested on which one had the better campaign manager? The media, however, loves this stuff. Every election we get story after story about internal problems with this or that campaign as if that matters. To the extent that the media covered what Trump said this week, it focused on his statement that he "regrets" some of the things he said during appearances when he may have chosen the wrong words. It was a small part of his speech in North Carolina, but it got most of the coverage that made it to the mainstream media. Now there were news outlets that covered what Trump had to say. For example, Fox News covered Trump's speech in North Carolina in its entirety during the Greta Van Susteren show. That gave it an large audience, but I wonder about the composition of that audience. Talk radio also covered the speech and got the Trump message out. Nevertheless, I wonder how far that message gets.
Trump may yet have his chance to get this message out during the debates. If he can weave this appeal into his debate responses, it will get heard by the expected 75 million people tuning in to see the candidates. It's important, and I bet Trump will try that.
Remember, if even twenty percent of the African American vote goes to Trump this year, he will be president. That's what makes the Democrat's taking the black vote for granted so surprising. Without that vote, the Democrats just cannot win.
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