Two years into the Trump administration, the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) has released a video rebuttal to a question the president asked black voters during the 2016 campaign, The Beat DC reports.
During his campaign, Trump attempted to woo black voters by asking them, “What the hell do you have to lose?” The CBC has answered that question with the short We Have Lost A Lot.
Over three-and-a-half minutes, the CBC uses news clips and the president’s words to investigate and criticize policies the caucus believes have negatively affected Black Americans.
Included are remarks the president made defending white supremacists at Charlottesville, profane statements made about NFL players and his insistence that Russian election meddling is fake news.
The clip also takes a look at attacks on Obamacare, voting rights, a renewed war on drugs, the Department of Justice’s mandatory minimum guidance, Department of Housing reforms that would raise rents of low-income Americans and the effects the new tax bill could have on Black Americans.
Representative Cedric Richmond (D-LA), chairman of the CBC, said he hopes the video will energize Black voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
“There is no question that our community – and the country – are worse off now than they were before President Trump took office. If we don’t want to lose more than we’ve lost already, we must vote in the next election and future elections," Richmond said. "Our grandparents and great-grandparents fought and died for the right to vote, and we should make sure we exercise that right no matter how low or high the stakes are. The stakes couldn’t be higher right now."
The video comes roughly a year after the CBC’s last public rebuke to the president, a policy document congresspeople sent to the White House called “We Have A Lot To Lose.”
A bill based on that document was introduced earlier this year. It did not make it to the floor.
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