Sounding Increasingly Desperate, Trump Attacks Black Congresswoman at Minnesota Rally

By Lauren Victoria Burke, NNPA Newswire Contributor

As the 2020 campaign for the White House enters the final stretch, President Donald Trump is looking and sounding increasingly desperate.

After a debate performance featuring a call to supporters to go to the polls and observe followed by a backlash for not denouncing white supremacy, Trump’s Republican supporters in the halls of Congress are increasingly concerned his presence at the top of the GOP ticket will impact the party down ballot.

The day after a debate he was roundly criticized for, Trump went to an old stand by: Attacking African American women in positions of leadership. During a rally in Minnesota on September 30, Trump said, “What is going on with Omar? I have been reading these re-ports for two years about how corrupt and crooked she is. Let us get with it. Let us get with it.”

Trump was referring to unverified claims linking the Congresswoman to a “ballot harvesting” scheme. A conservative website that traffics in conspiracies attempted to make the unverified information go viral on September 28.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said on Oct. 1st that she was not surprised by President Trump’s attacks.

“This man is a white supremacist. It is no surprise that he has ideas of feeling that Somalis are worthless…

We are very clear that in Minnesota, we are greater than hate. That is why he did not win Minnesota in 2016, “Rep. Omar said during an interview on MSNBC.

“Not only are Minnesotans welcoming of refugees, they have sent one to Washington to represent them. We are very clear that in Minnesota we are greater than hate. That is why he did not win Minnesota in 2016, and why he is not going to win Minnesota in 2020,” he added.

Trump has attacked Omar before, along with Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).

Polling in Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Arizona shows that Trump is trailing Vice President Joe Biden. States such as Georgia and South Carolina, usually reliable for Republican victory, are in play with either Biden tied with Trump or only one or two points behind.