The Trump campaign has previously said that it hopes to win over Black voters ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Donald Trump has said that he believes the criminal indictments against him have made him more popular among Black voters.
«A lot of people said that’s why the Black people liked me, because they have been hurt so badly and discriminated against,» he told a room of Republicans at the Conservative Black Federation in Columbia, South Carolina, on February 23. Some applause could be heard in response to Trump’s statements.
He is facing 91 criminal charges across four indictments in Georgia, New York, Florida and Washington, D.C. He has said each of the four criminal indictments is politically motivated against him, and he has pleaded not guilty to each one.
«They see what’s happening to me happens to them,» Trump also said during his speech, referring to historical incidents of anti-Black discrimination in the American legal system.
