The move by the Trump campaign marks a shift in Republican outreach efforts and embraces a group promoting falsehoods
By Michael Scherer Michael Scherer National political reporter covering campaigns, Congress and the White House Email Bio Follow May 24 at 2:36 PM Nearly a year after a gay freelance hairstylist living in Harlem posted a Facebook video repudiating the Democratic Party, Brandon Straka found himself in Trump Tower Thursday speaking with Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law and a senior campaign adviser.
Activists like Straka, by contrast, argue that there is no longer any intentional oppression of minorities in the United States, and that much of the accepted political history in the country, particularly around racial issues, is wrong. President Trump has tweeted praise for Straka’s efforts, as well as for a separate but concurrent “Jexodus” effort to persuade Jewish Democrats to defect. That campaign has been led by a former Trump campaign worker, Elizabeth Pipko, whose husband now helps run social media for the Trump reelection effort.
That shift has not yet shown up in public polling or election results. Democratic Party identification in Washington Post-ABC polls has remained steady during Trump’s rise in national politics. National exit polls in recent elections have also shown no movement toward the GOP among minority voters, with about 1 in 10 blacks voting Republican in 2018, matching the result in 2016 and 2014.
Straka’s group sells another T-shirt that reads, “Not a racist. Not a bigot. Not a homophobe. Not a Democrat,” which was worn by supporters at a recent fundraiser he held at the Trump International Hotel in Washington. Straka’s own political transformation resulted, he says, from a realization that much of what he had accepted from the media about Trump was false.
“I think it’s about a lot more than what people say, it’s about what people do,” she said, when asked about Trump’s comments at Charlottesville. Since then, she said, Trump has taken a tough line against Iran, relocated the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem and repeatedly condemned anti-Semitism.
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