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Tuesday, August 23, 2016

CNN Implies Blacks Won't Back Trump if He Doesn't Give Felons Voting Rights

CNN posted a questionable headline on Sunday linking African American voters to felons, reading: “Trump wants GOP to court black voters — then slams voting rights for felons.”

The article published on Sunday by CNN’s Ashley Killough and Karl de Vries is about the Republican nominee’s recent outreach to African American voters during his campaign rally in Virginia on Saturday and his criticism of Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s plan to restore the voting rights of felons. McAuliffe, who is under FBI investigation for campaign contributions, could potentially become a felon himself.

CNN describes the plan as “a move McAuliffe says could help African-Americans who were disproportionally affected by laws that put lifetime bans on felons.”

But CNN’s article doesn’t provide statistics or the percentage of felons who are African American that would be eligible to vote in order to substantiate McAuliffe’s claim, thereby equating Trump’s appeal to African American voters as an appeal to felons.

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5 comments:

  1. Can't the blacks worry about something that more important, like getting this country back on track?

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  2. Being close to sixty years of age, I feared Russia when I was a child. Now what I fear most is the Democratic Party and American media.

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  3. Now by reading this who do you see as the racist???????

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  4. Media will spew everything!

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  5. felons gave that up when they bacame felons. Is there no punishment remaining. "Time served" is NOT enough.

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