Trump pledges to make Juneteenth federal holiday in bid for Black voters
- by Virginia Carter
- in World Media
- — Sep 27, 2020
The plan also calls for Congress to make "Juneteenth" a holiday, and prioritize criminal justice reform.
It marks when Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and shared the news that slavery was abolished.
He won Georgia in 2016, but his lead over Biden in the state has recently narrowed, with a New York Times poll this week showing the candidates in a tie. He held a rally in Jacksonville, Florida, one of the most hotly contested battleground states.
"Trump is making more empty promises", said Biden campaign spokesman Kamau Marshall.
Biden had compared Trump to Goebbels once before, when he called for the president's impeachment in October 2019. This guy never goes out.
Tuberville this week said he supported Trump filling the vacancy now.
"Our hearts break for their families and for all families who have lost a loved one".
In the last two months before the election, President Trump is attempting to extend an olive branch to the black community by creating access to $500 billion dollars to black communities. In it, the KKK and Antifa are both designated as terrorist organizations, according to Fox News.
Trump claimed that Democrats like Biden have taken Black voters "for granted".
This followed Biden's declaration that, as reported by the Washington Post, if they were in high school and he heard Trump boasting about grabbing women by the genitals, he'd "take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him", and that "Any guy that talked that way was usually the fattest, ugliest SOB in the room".
"I'm not sure anybody hasn't already made up their mind they're for Trump".
"Three thousand Black Georgians have died, 430,000 Black Georgians are uninsured, and 11.8 percent of Black Georgians have been left jobless", Mr. Biden said.
In Virginia on Friday, he said he would extend a moratorium on offshore drilling to the Virginia and North Carolina coasts. It's another to forget altogether about right and wrong and just believe it is ok to do anything you want.
Trump has been campaigning with little regard for the virus, which has now killed more than 200,000 people in the United States.
"Joe Biden should not be demanding your support; he should be begging for your forgiveness".
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"When I ran for president four years ago, I looked at the shameful record of the Democrat party, and asked black Americans, 'What the hell do you have to lose?'" Trump told the crowd in Atlanta on Friday. Former Defence Secretary Jim Mattis struck a self-imposed guarantee of silence June using the op-ed slamming Trump's answer to racial justice protests.
