Trump’s Harriet Tubman reaction highlights GOP problems with black voters

Published April 21, 2016 11:12pm ET



When the U.S. Treasury Department announced that they were bumping Andrew Jackson off the front of the $20 bill to be replaced by Harriet Tubman, most conservatives and Republicans praised the decision. But not Donald Trump.

Instead, Trump derided the decision as “pure political correctness” and suggested maybe Tubman appear on the little-used $2 bill instead. Trump’s comments followed those of Fox News’ Greta Van Susteren, who charged that the Obama administration “went stupid” with the decision to bump Jackson, supposedly picking a “completely unnecessary fight” that was “dividing the country.”

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