FILE – Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump visits a Chick-fil-A eatery, April 10, 2024, in Atlanta. Five months before the first general election votes are cast, Trump’s campaign has little to show for its ambitious minority outreach plan. Trump advisers point to Trump’s appearances at the eatery, as well as a New York bodega and a New York City police officer’s wake as examples of the campaign’s developing outreach strategy that hinges on using Trump’s celebrity and bombastic personality to create viral moments in communities of color. (AP Photo/Jason Allen, File)
FILE – Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, visits a bodega, April 16, 2024, in New York. Five months before the first general election votes are cast, Trump’s campaign has little to show for its ambitious minority outreach plan. Trump advisers point to Trump’s appearances at the bodega, an Atlanta Chick-fil-A, and a New York City police officer’s wake, as examples of the campaign’s developing outreach strategy that hinges on using Trump’s celebrity and bombastic personality to create viral moments in communities of color. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
FILE – Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump visits a Chick-fil-A eatery, April 10, 2024, in Atlanta. Five months before the first general election votes are cast, Trump’s campaign has little to show for its ambitious minority outreach plan. Trump advisers point to Trump’s appearances at the eatery, as well as a New York bodega and a New York City police officer’s wake as examples of the campaign’s developing outreach strategy that hinges on using Trump’s celebrity and bombastic personality to create viral moments in communities of color. (AP Photo/Jason Allen, File)
FILE – Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, visits a bodega, April 16, 2024, in New York. Five months before the first general election votes are cast, Trump’s campaign has little to show for its ambitious minority outreach plan. Trump advisers point to Trump’s appearances at the bodega, an Atlanta Chick-fil-A, and a New York City police officer’s wake, as examples of the campaign’s developing outreach strategy that hinges on using Trump’s celebrity and bombastic personality to create viral moments in communities of color. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
FILE – Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump visits a Chick-fil-A eatery, April 10, 2024, in Atlanta. Five months before the first general election votes are cast, Trump’s campaign has little to show for its ambitious minority outreach plan. Trump advisers point to Trump’s appearances at the eatery, as well as a New York bodega and a New York City police officer’s wake as examples of the campaign’s developing outreach strategy that hinges on using Trump’s celebrity and bombastic personality to create viral moments in communities of color. (AP Photo/Jason Allen, File)
FILE – Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, left, visits a bodega, April 16, 2024, in New York. Five months before the first general election votes are cast, Trump’s campaign has little to show for its ambitious minority outreach plan. Trump advisers point to Trump’s appearances at the bodega, an Atlanta Chick-fil-A, and a New York City police officer’s wake, as examples of the campaign’s developing outreach strategy that hinges on using Trump’s celebrity and bombastic personality to create viral moments in communities of color. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
NEW YORK — Donald Trump says he wants to hold a major campaign event at New York’s Madison Square Garden featuring Black hip-hop artists and athletes. Aides speak of Trump making appearances in Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta with leaders of color and realigning American politics by flipping Democratic constituencies.
But five months before the first general election votes are cast, the former preside ...
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