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Politics : Trump Victory in the Republican Primary
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From: zax8/28/2016 6:50:37 AM
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Donald Trump tries to leverage a high-profile slaying into a campaign appeal
By Philip Bump August 27 at 1:03 PM

washingtonpost.com

The death of Nykea Aldridge on Friday afternoon is a death of the sort that's become sadly familiar in Chicago this summer. A young mother fatally shot on the street — this time accidentally, after hundreds of others that were intentional. What made Aldridge's death unusual is that she had a famous relative, Chicago Bulls guard Dwyane Wade.

Wade tweeted about his cousin's death, in a call to address the gun violence that has plagued the city.




Trump's message was different. "Just what I have been saying," he said about Aldridge's death. Which is true: Trump has been regularly using gun homicides in Chicago as a broader representation of an increase in violent crime across the nation — an increase for which there isn't evidence.

Moreover, he's been using gun violence in Chicago as a way of arguing somewhat circuitously that he deserves more support from black voters. In most national polling, Trump gets the support of a handful of black respondents, usually in the low single digits. It's probably in part because Trump has been seen as appealing to bigotry in his campaign rhetoric, as Quinnipiac University showed in a poll earlier this week. That belief is one that extends well beyond black voters.



It's also probably in part because black Americans have been supporting Democratic candidates by wide margins for decades. Trump has tried to use this as an awkward appeal to black voters, suggesting that since things aren't perfect for black Americans, they should give his candidacy a shot. "What do you have to lose?" he has asked repeatedly, in a pitch that seems hard to outdo for ineffectiveness.

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