In this Monday, June 1, 2020, file photo, protesters march through the streets of Mount Vernon, Ohio. A group of college students organized the event to stand in solidarity with other protests across the nation spurred by the death of Floyd George in Minneapolis and of other African Americans. Far from the industrial north’s urban centers, hundreds of protests over black injustice have cropped up in small cities in rural areas.
The protests in these Republican-leaning areas offer a test of the president’s ability to reassemble his older, white voting bloc. If he cannot replicate that coalition, it would leave Trump with few options, especially since he continues to lose support in suburbs. Trump’s reelection campaign is working chiefly through online outreach to hold onto his largely white base and to identify new voters in rural areas as a defense against inroads by presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden.
Trump won Wexford County, home to Cadillac, with 65% of the vote, similar to neighboring counties in the lightly populated region, where unemployment has run higher than average in Michigan. Dozens of protests have taken place in counties in these four battleground states that Trump flipped from Democrat to Republican. Among them were Macomb County outside Detroit, Portage and Mahoning counties in northeast Ohio, and — perhaps most notably — Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, where voters swung dramatically from President Barack Obama in 2012 to Trump four years later.
All that these little white kids are doing is strengthening his base.
Won’t be a problem
I live in one of those cities. 50 high school kids protesting does not a movement make or a threat to Trump’s base areas. The media sounds just like 2016 again. Hail king Biden amirite?
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1% of the population protested. The rest of us will vote.
He spent all his time in office pandering to his base. His base alone won't win the election. He was banking on the economy that started rising under Obama to continue. With it ranking and his uncaring response to COVID he has lost much if not all the middle that helped him win.
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Did everyone in those counties vote for Trump? Or were there some who voted otherwise? If yes, They might be protesting
It's no contest. No one will vote for senile Biden
Not true, but whatever makes you appease your advertisers.
These protesters are old enough to vote, so who cares
The rioters will not vote, I think we all know that. There was a protest in my small town. I know this is going to sound crazy, but a majority of the protestors were not from town. Shocker, I know.
Just a quick reminder, you may have forgot
Why don’t you just say the protest are largely white. Remember BLM doesn’t want to hear from you because you haven’t lived in our shoes.
You are doing the right thing because nobody wants to support racism for racism kills and leads you to destroy communities and harm the country. Stand your ground at work and everywhere. You'll be proud of you later in your life and starting from today too.
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One would think that the voters who live in those area’s might vote Trump after the out of town protesters and rioters pillage their counties
so it all comes down to the votes. It's not about racism, inequality of blacks nor police brutality. The left just used that to promote violence, lootings and vandalism in order to get the votes they couldn't get otherwise. And the media just went along
Capitalize Black ffs!
Rioting and looting just make you want to vote Republican even more.
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Small percentage of voters are marching around with signs. Basically gives the young folks something to do and make them feel like they are actually doing something meaningful.
This will make us turn out in bigger numbers to re-elect him
The rioters aren’t Trump voters...
If they would quite looking at the news, they will find that Trump has done more for the black race than the last 4 presidents. Look up the facts not just media bullshit.
Anyone who voted for trump failed a really basic test.
Meanwhile Uncle Joe continues to hide out in his basement, and when he does speak its gibberish. Crickets from the corrupt media.
I hope he loses all 52 states...People go register to vote then vote vote vote
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If it looks like a thug, dresses like thug, acts like thug, talks like thug, it will be treated like a thug.
BS
Dem Mayor. Dem police chief. Dem city counsel. Dem govenor. Dem DA. Dem state reps. Anyone see a pattern of failure hereyougetwhatyoupayfor
If you think this has any effect except to firm up support for the side that isn’t setting buildings on fire, I don’t know what else to tell you.
Teach Whiteys the lesson of how their Whiteys Trump is making their country as laughingstock undoubtedly!
This is the point. ItsAllPolitics. Never let a good crisis go to waste
This shows that people that work at AP are really ignorant of what is happening in America. These Soros organized protester do not reflect the feelings of the people in these communities.
Oh this will surely bring Trump down.
800,000 requested tickets for the next rally.
You tried but it’s not working. 300,000 ppl have requested tickets to Trump Rally in Florida. Same all over USA. Trump 2020
There is no Mid-West Economic Recovery if the country is in unrest. There is no Mid-West Economic Recovery if the country can't get Covid19 under control. Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin is doomed with Trump in office.
Ah yes, I can see where you might think people seeing the first steps of the violence and looting now prevalent in Democrat-led cities spreading to their own small towns as a sign they might vote for the same Democrats that brought those big cities all that in the first place.
What a shock: Donny's supporters buy into racist stereotypes. This could be because Donny's fans are disgusting shit people, but we don't want to stereotype others, do we? Suffice it to say GOP voters are probably not concerned about 'black injustice.'
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Never allow the Left to get a footing. Antifa & co want the destruction of America. Rip off the facade and the Communists are behind it all.
Peaceful marches are welcome. Violence the left brings is unwelcome
Yet, “black injustice” is rampant in cities and districts dominated by Democrats.
Because there was no racism during Obamas stay in the White House 🤷♂️
If you think these protesters are the ones who voted for Trump then you are fake news, Trumps supporters are more convinced to vote for him more than ever after what the punks have done in our cities!
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What exactly do you mean by easily won?
This is a stupid take. You can be against racial injustice and STILL be for trump.
It's pretty hysterical that it's mostly white people protesting about 'black injustice'.
Non story. This is the MSM trying to convince you it's actually true.
I live in Lancaster County PA and I'm glad to see that the protests are county wide and are even taking place in the smaller more conservative areas.
So in other words only Democrats see injustice? That couldn’t be farther from the truth. This is just a statement from AP that insinuates Republican/Conservatives are for injustice. Stupidity reigns in the media. That’s why Trump will win again. Thank you.
He's not the one hurting innocents. He'll easily win again.
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I mean if the people in those areas are fed up with what they see and hear from these protestors they'll either join in or want it to stop by voting him again. Unless another wave of outrage follow suits after election day. We'll see how these people react.
HE IS JUST FINE WITH US. HE WILL PASS WITH RED, WHITE, AND BLUE.
God Bless America.
Black people are vandalizing, looting and rioting at this very moment.
Why wouldn’t he, probably win it by larger margin
Lol I guarantee no one in this picture has voted for Trump in 2016.
President Trump will win in a landslide, anybody that votes democrat these days is either insane or brainless.
50% of the protestors don't vote, 20% are to.young to vote and 30% will vote republican after they realize that BLM movement hates white people.
Nothing better than a GeorgeSoros bus. But does he give you guys pizza too?
Fair. Voting is where the people will speak. That's the way it's supposed to be.
Donald Trump’s victory across the entire country had nothing to do with racism. It had everything to do with patriotic Americans not wanting a traitor who had American diplomats murdered to live in the White House.
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5 decades of Democrat control have destroyed urban cities so Leftist moonbats have fled and infected small town America.
Why not, most of the paid fake protesters are from out of state!
They are they really believe everything the M S Manipulators tell them its true oh yeah in largely white small towns across America
Go and 'protest' your democrat elected police state utopias where you get choked to death for selling a street cigarette and not paying that tax, trans fats are illegal and even table salt is banned.
We do more harm than good by pushing false narratives. No group is targeted. Brutality is 1% racism and 99% 'qualified immunity', a license to murder. True privilege of any impact is WEALTH privilege. All sides need serious education. TalkingAboutRace
I don't know why blacks attack the police so much, but they expect the police to kiss their hands
Trust me when I say, it will not sway our vote!
Thank heavens the Democrats nominated the gropey barely competent candidate largely responsible for the militarized police force and carceral state, to give Trump a fighting shot
No it doesn’t AP wrong again and always!!
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Define “black injustice”
George Floyd was murdered. Everyone agrees. It's not complicated. Other cases where the suspect attacked police or has a weapon won't get the same reaction, regardless of political party. Mike Brown attacked the officer and tried to steal his gun. Not all cases are the same.
BS story
Republican governors will suppress the vote.
🤣These are the same deluded and gullible Democrats that lost the last time. Nobody wants the America that the Democrats are championing right now. How could they? What a joke!
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Yea really hard to hold when you watch the videos from all these Democrat controlled areas being burned down and people being violently attacked...I’m sure that will really hurts his chances there with regular working class people
What black injustice?