{"id":72339,"date":"2024-07-31T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guid_108013745"},"modified":"2024-07-31T12:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T12:00:12","slug":"trump-to-speak-at-black-journalists-convention-as-harris-erases-his-lead-in-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/trump-to-speak-at-black-journalists-convention-as-harris-erases-his-lead-in-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to speak at Black journalists convention, as Harris erases his lead in polls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
<\/span><\/p>\n Donald Trump<\/span> is set to field reporters’ questions at the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual convention in Chicago on Wednesday, as he retools his presidential campaign to combat his likely rival<\/span>, Vice President Kamala Harris<\/span>.<\/p>\n The Republican nominee’s Q&A before a live convention audience is expected to focus on the biggest issues facing the Black community, NABJ said.<\/p>\n Trump will be speaking with Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, ABC News senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott and politics reporter Kadia Goba of Semafor. It will be livestreamed at 1 p.m. ET on the group’s Facebook and YouTube pages.<\/p>\n The event gives Trump, who won just 12%<\/span> of Black voters in his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden<\/span>, an opportunity to directly appeal to voters of color.<\/p>\n But he may have more trouble courting these voters in a competition against Harris, who is the first Black person, first woman and first person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president.<\/p>\n Some polls<\/span> already show that Harris has more support among Black, Latino and young voters than Biden did before she replaced him as the de facto Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n On Tuesday, a new Bloomberg\/Morning Consult survey<\/span> of battleground states found that Harris has effectively eliminated Trump’s lead in the seven battleground states likely to determine which candidate wins the Electoral College.<\/p>\n The Trump campaign, in a press release Monday night announcing his NABJ appearance, claimed that he “accomplished more for Black Americans than any other president in recent history.”<\/p>\n The decision by NABJ, the nation’s largest association of journalists of color, to host Trump quickly spurred a backlash both inside and outside the group.<\/p>\n Convention co-chair Karen Attiah resigned her position<\/span> on the eve of the event, writing in a social media post<\/span>, “To the journalists interviewing Trump, I wish them the best of luck.”<\/p>\n She added in follow-up post, “While my decision was influenced by a variety of factors, I was not involved or consulted with in any way with the decision to platform Trump in such a format.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n