Philadelphia is known as a time-tested stomping ground for the Democratic Party — along with having the highest concentration of Black folks in Pennsylvania. Donald Trump held a rally at Philly’s Temple University Saturday night in an attempt to change the former.
But that’s probably not happening: Trump has a shaky past with Philadelphia. He didn’t win the popular vote in the 2016 or 2020 elections. In 2018, he uninvited the city’s NFL team, the Philadelphia Eagles, to the White House after many of the Super Bowl champions declined Trump’s invitation. The former president has also insinuated that “bad things” happen in the mostly Black city.
Also, the Democratic National Committee is not taking Trump’s attempts to sway Black voters lightly. Posters and billboards were placed all around Philly identifyiing how another Trump term would be detrimental for Black folks.
A billboard set up near the Temple campus reminded people that Trump “was a disaster for Black Americans” and that “If Trump wins, Black families lose.” It also read that Trump “left [office] with nearly 10% Black unemployment” and will “sabotage Obamacare, [pass] tax breaks for the rich, and slash Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.”
Trump denied all of those claims during the rally, saying “the people of our country are looking for hope, whether they’re white, brown, Black or anything else,” which he claims to represent.
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