Trump declares he’ll make history at rally aimed to ‘break the ice’ with black voters

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PHILADELPHIA — Former President Donald Trump vowed to a Philadelphia crowd that he would win Pennsylvania in November, a feat that has only been accomplished by a Republican once since 1988 when Trump did so in 2016.

Just days before his first debate against President Joe Biden in the rematch of the 2020 election, Trump addressed tens of thousands at Temple University’s Liacouras Center. Until Saturday, no Republican presidential candidate had campaigned in a predominantly black Philadelphia neighborhood in years.

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