![]() But there may be another effect of this message that he was delivering last night. And those numbers appear to be locked in. You know, recent polls show his support among African-Americans is negligible at best. The Clinton campaign, of course, strenuously objected to that idea and said so in a statement. KEITH: And he accused Hillary Clinton of being bigoted in assuming that African-Americans would vote for her and taking the African-American vote for granted. And it's time to rebuild the inner cities of America and to reject the failed leadership of a rigged political system. It's time to give the Democrats some competition for these votes. They've taken advantage of the African-American citizen. They've just assumed they'll get your support and done nothing in return for it. TRUMP: The Democratic Party has taken the votes of African-Americans for granted. At times, though, he did seem to be speaking directly to African-Americans. It was an overwhelmingly white crowd because they were in - it wasn't even a suburb, it was so far out. KEITH: It was not necessarily the people in the room. Who was he aiming this speech at? Who was the audience? I mean, the city of Milwaukee has seen protests and violence in recent days after that police shooting of a black man. KEITH: About 40 miles or so away - it definitely was not inner Milwaukee. I mean, he was speaking fairly close to the city, right? Tam, Trump there said, here in Milwaukee. Yesterday, it was about security of the inner cities. The day before, he had been focused on security from a terrorism perspective. KEITH: The campaign said the focus of the speech was on law and order, which is indicative of them trying to stick to a cohesive message. More than 2,600 people have been shot in Chicago since the beginning of the year and almost 4,000 people killed in President Obama's hometown area since his presidency began. TRUMP: During the last 72 hours, while protesters have raged against the police here in Milwaukee, another nine were killed in Chicago and another 46 were wounded. The only thing that was different was Donald Trump himself. There were chants in the crowd of lock her up and things that are typically at a Trump rally. The vibe was very much that sort of raw energy of a rally. And the candidate, two days in a row at least, has spoken from a teleprompter. The campaign is, on a daily basis, trying to drive a message. KEITH: Well, despite what Donald Trump says, the campaign and the candidate, in the last couple of days at least, have been doing things that seem very much in line with a shift. GREENE: So this shake-up - I mean, is this the moment where we're going to see some kind of pivot that a lot of Republicans have been talking about, to a more - I don't know the word to use - traditional campaign? GREENE: NPR's Tamara Keith is in West Bend, Wis., where Donald Trump spoke last night. If you start pivoting, you're not being honest with people. ![]() Everyone talks about, oh, well, you're going to pivot. But in an interview with WKBT television in Wisconsin yesterday, Donald Trump said, again, don't bet on it.ĭONALD TRUMP: I am who I am - it's me. For weeks now, Republicans have been urging their presidential nominee to refocus his campaign as his poll numbers have sunk. ![]() Campaign chairman Paul Manafort will keep his title. He promoted pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager. He has brought in the head of the conservative website Breitbart as CEO. Donald Trump is shaking up his campaign again. ![]()
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