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His Targeted Appeals to Minority Voters

Friday’s front-page New York Times story by Lisa Lerer and Michael Gold demonstrated how far the paper will go to eviscerate Trump no matter what he’s doing, whether he’s appealing to “white Christians” or minorities: “Trump’s Lamenting Appeal to Nonwhite Voters — Blame and Grievances in a Discordant Play of Identity Politics.” (Note that “Black” is capitalized throughout, while “white” is not.)

For more than a decade, former President Donald J. Trump fueled his political rise with dark appeals to white Christian voters, warning of immigrants coming for their jobs and nefarious efforts to undermine what he describes as the country’s true heritage.

Now, facing a neck-and-neck race against the first Black woman to win her party’s nomination, Mr. Trump is branching out.

He has repeatedly accused migrants of poaching “Black…

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