Gene wilder was funny. He could be funny on the street. Hold your breath. Make a wish. Count to three. We say to you sayonara. Hardball with Chris Matthews is next. Donald trumps major minority outreach speech. Lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Steve Kornacki in for the vacationing Chris Matthews. Donald trump is promising a major speech this wednesday on the subject of immigration. On saturday the republican nominee will held to detroit, where he will speak at a black church. All of this part of what Trumps Campaign says is an effort to reach out to minority communities. Last week, trump continually asked africanamerican and hispanic voters what do you have to lose by voting for him. Many people took issue with the tweet saturday morning reacting to the news that the cousin of nba star dwyane wade had been shot. Trump tweeting out on saturday quote, dwyane wades cousin was just shot and killed walking her baby in chicago. Just what i have been saying. Africanamericans will vote trump. Hours later, trump tweeted his condolences. Critics of trump accused him of politicizing the tragedy. The next day, trumps running mate and Campaign Manager were asked about it. Do you think that was a president ial reaction to a tragedy . Well, right after that, he issued a tweet expressing his prayers and his thoughts and his condolences. A lot of you people in the media spend more time talking about what donald trump said and tweeted in the last three days than you do focusing on what the clintons have been up to for the last 30 years. Donald trump has a plainspoken way about him. Do you think its right to have that kind of a political response to a personal tragedy . I was pleased that his next tweet expressed his condolences to the wade family. Trump continued tweeting about race today. Now that africanamericans are seeing what a bad job hillarytype policy and management has done to the inner cities, they want trump. Also, this. Inner city crime is reaching record levels. Africanamericans will vote for trump because they know i will stop the slaughter going on. And look how bad it is getting. How much more crime, how many more shootings will it take for africanamericans and latinos to vote. Trump equals safe. What exactly is trump up to here . Im joined by nbcs Hallie Jackson outside the trump tower. Yaniche is with me, and robert. Hallie, we have this speech on the calendar now. Donald trump going to head to new york, talk to a black
church. Its not the idea hes trying to target a message towards the black community. The way hes choosing to deliver this message just talking about black life in this country being seemingly neverending series of threats of violence and all sorts of problem in their life. What is the strategy behind talking about it in this way . Reporter that has struck some as you know as sort of an insensitive, tonedeaf way of going about this outreach particularly because until we see him out over Labor Day Weekend in michigan, trump wont have delivered this message to any actual black communities, to any actual africanamerican voters directly in a way that we have seen others speak to these communities in the past. The strategy is to go after some of these minority voters in a way to build up trumps numbers with these folks. When you look at where he stands, its about 1 , at least in our latest polling, in se battleground states its virtually 0 support. Which is why you are seeing trump talk about, for example,
economic empowerment. That will be one of the issues he will discuss with the minority communities in areas like black churches, black neighborhoods, because it ties together trumps message he delivers more broadly that hes the one who can, in his words, fix the economy while being able to direct it more specifically to some of these folks we are talking about. Lets talk about the targeting and the message here. Theres a theory out there that trump isnt even necessarily talking directly to black voters here, that this is a way of telling white voters, hey, im actually interested in the concerns of black voters, not just having a white base of support. Lets say this is a message aimed at black voters. The way hes going about delivering this, the message wees have in his tweets basically saying hey, your lives cant get any worse, what do you have to lose, why wouldnt you give me a chance. Is there a chance he could get some traction . Hes at 1 right now. Could he get any traction with a message like that . Could he tap into something . Its hard for me to say he would tap into something. The voters i have talked to on the trail really feel highly offended by the black life hes painting. Hes kind of saying, stereotyping africanamericans in such a way its almost unrecognizable to people who are africanamericans, saying i go to good schools, i have gotten an education, i walk down my street and i dont get shot. People really feel he is talking to white, in some ways, one, white people who feel as though africanamerican life is like this. I spent time in west bend, wisconsin talking to people who felt this way about africanamericans. A man said to me as i was interviewing him, that africanamericans dont want to work hard and hes a trump supporter. Trump is telling that man its okay to think that way. I also kind of think that way. Thats what i think some people think hes saying. Its really hard for people to hear this. Its really hard for me to see him get traction this way. Of course, there are africanamericans out there who support donald trump. There are people out there who i have talked to who think hes a good businessman, he has a
message of economic equality. Its hard to see this new message will add to those people. One of those africanamerican supporters of donald trump, pastor mark burns this afternoon, hes an africanamerican adviser and surrogate to the Trump Campaign, tweeted a cartoon of Hillary Clinton in blackface. Some viewers might find this image very offensive. Burns adding a caption of sorts. He wrote black americans, thank you for your votes and letting me use you again. See you again in four years. Pastor burns defending that tweet earlier today on msnbc. The tweet is a frustration that i have as a black man here in america and how i see africanamericans in many cases, not every case, but in many cases suffering throughout this country and to see how en masse we have been voting for the Democratic Party en masse, yet
we have very little to show for it. The picture is designed to do draw attention to the very fact that Hillary Clinton do pander after black people, she do pander and the policies are not good for africanamericans. It is doing exactly what its designed to do. We are not playing the political p. C. Game. Pastor burns also telling Hallie Jackson he would apologize to anyone who was offended. By the way, mark burns will be on hardball tomorrow night. Robert costa, the place of mark burns in the orbit of donald trump, a lot of people looking at the messages donald trump is spending right now to black voters, the way hes talking about black life in this country right now, asking the question where is he getting these notions from, where is he getting the description from, who is in his ear . Is mark burns the answer to that question . Mark burns is certainly someone who is well liked by the Trump Campaign and you see throughout trumps orbit when it comes to this outreach to africanamericans and to the Latino Community an openness
with inflammatory rhetoric. We saw trump on the campaign trail use the term bigot when it comes to secretary clinton. We see this today from a trump surrogate. So this is a nontraditional, to say the least, kind of outreach from a Republican Campaign to a minority group. Hallie, Something Else that struck me. We put that tweet up from donald trump over the weekend about dwyane wade, about his cousin and donald trump immediately jumping to this statement that hey, this is why black voters are going to end up supporting me. It struck me, Kellyanne Conway, his new Campaign Manager, the clip we played of her reacting to that saying what i liked was the tweet he put up immediately after that. That was what Kellyanne Conway was supposed to bring to this campaign, supposed to get him to stop tweeting excessively, needlessly, inflammatory things on twitter. She seems to be trying to deliver a message there. But can we read anything into the freedom i guess he still enjoys to tweet as he pleases . Reporter well, i think anybody who is going to come
into donald Trumps Campaign and who would say to trump put down the phone and stop tweeting would walk back out of trump tower without a job pretty quickly, frankly. Donald trump tweets. Its what he does. You cant stop him. What you can do is do what you have seen happen over this last week. Yes, donald trump may tweet something that raises eyebrows but he immediately follows up or at least within a few hours with something that his supporters would view as Kellyanne Conway did as perhaps more appropriate. I think that dwyane wade tweet is a good example of that. Remember, it was something critics looked at and said donald trump here is doing exactly what he accused Hillary Clinton of doing which is seeing members of the Africanamerican Community simply as votes. So trump as he continues to work on, listen, i hate to say it. I even hate to call it a reset. Obviously something is different with his campaign with this new leadership. That is one thing that has been clear. As this has happened over the last couple of weeks, you have seen perhaps the team begin to try to moderate some of the messaging hes putting out
online. I realize im using a lot of waffling words but i think thats where you got to go when you look at what trumps doing. We are told after labor day he will make a turn, he will put mo resources and time into traditional battleground states and not where he is 00ed tomorrow, for example, washington. We will see this outreach to communities even as it raises eyebrows as we have been saying. Does Hillary Clinton have vulnerability when it comes to minority voters . You got donald trump basically saying in the message from this very crude cartoon mark burns is tweeting out is basically saying to black voters Hillary Clinton has a very transactional view of you. You give her votes, she shows up once every four years, collects your votes, you get nothing for that. Is that a sentiment thats prevalent at all . Theres a vulnerability in Hillary Clinton in the idea that people look at the crime bill or at the fact they she used the term super predators so people have that question about Hillary Clinton. However, if you look at the primaries, you know that Hillary Clinton is very much imbedded in the Africanamerican Community. She made it a point to show up and continue to show up even before she was running for president and now as shes running for president. Against donald trump, i dont think those vulnerabilities do anything and dont give him really anything to get from her, because he his outreach is so offensive in some ways, at least seen as offensive in some ways that he really i dont think can take away from the africanamerican votes because bernie sanders, i think people say he felt he was genuine, they felt he was really trying to reach out to africanamerican voters and he could not make any headway. I think that teaches us that even if donald trump had a winning message, it would be really hard to take those voters away from Hillary Clinton. Robert costa, quickly, separate but important issue here as well, i know you have some reporting on this. Theres a couple independent candidates in this race, one of them Evan Mcmullin. He may be making some inroads in utah, a state donald trump is struggling in, maybe hurting donald trump in arizona and now some word of mitt romney people
in mitt romneys orbit having communication with evan. What can you tell us . Earlier today, Evan Mcmullin and his Campaign Advisers met with stuart stevens, chief strategist for mitt romneys 2012 president ial campaign here in washington downtown, talked through the last 70 days of the election. Theres a sense mcmullin of course is an outside shot in every state in the country but if he cou get his margins up in a high mormon population state like arizona or utah, maybe he could hinder trump from winning those states and depress his total in the electoral college. Thats the thought. Could be an interesting dilemma for mitt romney because one of the other third party candidates, the president ial nominee for the libertarians, bill weld, guy who helped bring mitt romney into politics. Thats right. I hear romney right now is in utah and in boston, wherever he is, which home hes in, thinking through his decision. Hes been on the sidelines, been very quiet. Hes thinking about does he go with mcmullin, someone who also went to byu, shares his faith,
or does he go with weld and johnson on the libertarian ticket or maybe he sits it all out. Very interesting dilemma and potentially consequential in an unlikely state, utah. Thank you, all. Appreciate the time. Coming up, Anthony Weiner back in the news. The former congressman married to top clinton aide huma abedin has made headlines again after a new sexting report in the New York Post. Abedin announcing today she is separating from weiner. Donald trump also weighing in. We have the latest details on that story next. Plus, we are just weeks away now from the first president ial debate. Already both sides are preparing for battle. Two campaign veterans coming here to advise on strategy. Also, donald trump calls on Hillary Clinton to release more of her medical history. This coming days after trumps doctor, the one who wrote he would be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency, reveals that he wrote that letter in just five minutes as a car waited to whisk it away. Finally, the hardball
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