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Trump’s New Minority Outreach Carries Hidden Agenda, Strategists Say

His outreach to blacks and Hispanics is seen by some Republicans as a covert appeal to college-educated whites alienated by his nativism.
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Donald Trump to Supporters: We’re Not Racists

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Donald Trump is testing a novel way to fix a problem that no modern Republican presidential nominee has had.

His quest this week to reach out to black and Hispanic voters has a covert agenda, Republican strategists say, of winning back college-educated whites who historically prefer Republicans but seem to be turned off by Trump’s nativist appeals.