Donald Trump's Script to Attract Black Voters, His Fallout With Latino Leaders, 'Taco Trucks on Every Corner' and More

Donald Trump is expected to make a case for his candidacy to African-Americans next week at a black church in Detroit, and his campaign is leaving nothing to chance. A leaked script shows that questions have already been submitted to the Trump campaign and that it has begun preparing answers in consultation with black Republicans.

But that's not the only issue Trump is having with attracting minority voters. After his immigration speech on Wednesday night, the Republican presidential nominee is seeing backlash from Latino GOP leaders. However, one Hispanic leader stood by Trump, warning that if nothing is done about immigration, "you're gonna have taco trucks every corner."

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Leaked Script Shows What Advisers Want Donald Trump to Say at Black Church: "Instead of speaking to the congregation at Great Faith Ministries International, Mr. Trump had planned to be interviewed by its pastor in a session that would be closed to the public and the news media, with questions submitted in advance. And instead of letting Mr. Trump be his freewheeling self, his campaign prepared lengthy answers for the submitted questions, consulting black Republicans to make sure he says the right things." (The New York Times)

Donald Trump's Immigration Speech Leads to Fallout with Latino GOP Leaders: "Donald Trump is facing backlash on Thursday from some of his top conservative Latino surrogates following his Wednesday night Phoenix, Arizona, immigration speech — one that they consider anti-immigrant. With their influence, the Republican presidential nominee had shown signs last month that he was softening his approach toward undocumented immigrants, drawing the ire of many of his original supporters who were attracted to the New York businessman because of his harsh stance on immigration." (Patch)

How Trump Got from Point A to Point A on Immigration: "The morning after Donald Trump once again embraced his hard-line immigration posture in a shouted speech, at least four members of his two-week-old Hispanic advisory council said they might not vote for the Republican presidential nominee and warned that his harsh rhetoric would cost him the election. At meetings Thursday on the 14th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan, the candidate’s top aides held the opposite view. They thought his tough talk on immigration — combined with a whirlwind trip to Mexico on Wednesday — had, in the words of one adviser, 'won him the election.'" (The Washington Post)

Donald Trump, Mexican President Take Border-Wall Payment Fight To Twitter: "A day after their in-person meeting in Mexico, Donald Trump and Enrique Peña Nieto moved their discussions about Trump's proposed border wall and who would pay for it to the next logical medium: Twitter. The GOP nominee began his morning with a simple message: 'Mexico will pay for the wall!'" (Patch)

From the Twitterverse

Not everybody is impressed with the diversity on Donald Trump's team:

Today's Numbers

• 66 days until Election Day 2016.
• Donald Trump is dead wrong when he claims that there are at least 2 million criminals among the undocumented immigrants currently in the U.S.
• Hillary Clinton leads Donald Trump by 7 points in a new national poll.
• The Clinton campaign raised $143 million in August.

Quote of the Day

Latinos for Trump co-founder Marco Gutierrez defending Donald Trump's immigration stance:

"My culture is a very dominant culture," said Gutierrez . "And it's imposing, and it's causing problems. If you don't do something about it, you're gonna have taco trucks every corner."

Allen McDuffee is a politics and policy reporter, investigative journalist, blogger and podcast host. He has written for The Atlantic, Wired and The Washington Post. Follow him on Twitter: @AllenMcDuffee

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