Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” ESPN commentator L.Z. Granderson said Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was not “serious” about getting the black vote because one of his campaign surrogates is Omarosa Manigault, who was a contestant on the first season of “The Apprentice.”
Partial transcript as follows:
GRANDERSON: I think his ceiling, though, is basically a demographic that we can easily identify, which is how many heterosexual white men without college education are there in the country? Because for the most part, that’s where his message has been targeting towards. He may get some other outside groups that are —
KARL: Well, he’ll get a few other votes.
(CROSSTALK)
GRANDERSON: But if you bring in Omarosa, you aren’t serious about trying to get the black vote, right? I mean that’s not helping your policy.
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