Black voters start to sway from Clinton to Trump

Donald Trump is making his pitch to black voters. Again.

Just days after the shootings of Terence Crutcher in Tulsa, OK and Keith Lamont Scott in Charlotte, NC, the GOP presidential candidate expressed more empathy than self-aggrandizement when addressing the shootings. On Wednesday, Trump tweeted, “The situations in Tulsa and Charlotte are tragic. We must come together to make America safe again.”

Later, he tweeted for an end to the “violence and unrest” as protests broke out in Charlotte on Tuesday night.

Trump’s sentiments on social media are even being reflected on the campaign trail. At a rally in Kenansville, NC on Tuesday, Trump likened the inner cities to war zones like Afghanistan, saying, “African American communities are absolutely in the worst shape that they’ve ever been in before—ever, ever, ever.”

He continued on by highlighting the poor educational system, the lack of economic opportunities as well as the high crime rates with his trademark line, “What do you have to lose?”