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Founder, The Recombobulation Area (subscribe!). Political Editor, @CivicMediaUS. Exhausted Dad. Milwaukee person. BUCKS FAN. Email: dan.shafer@civicmedia.us

Sep 29, 2020, 7 tweets

Here's @SenTaylor being shown how the Trump campaign was specifically targeting Black people in Milwaukee to "deter" them from voting.

And what happened?

Black voter turnout in Wisconsin dropped 19% in 2016. madison.com/wsj/news/local…

Turnout in Milwaukee County (where 70% of Black Wisconsinites live) dropped more than any other. wiscontext.org/how-and-where-…

Reminder👇

"In Wisconsin, Black people constitute just 5.4% of the population but made up 17% of ‘Deterrence’."

Tremendous investigative reporting by @Channel4News: channel4.com/news/revealed-…

This should be a major scandal for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin.

Targeting historically disenfranchised Black voters in an effort to exclude them from the democratic process is completely unacceptable.

Reporters traveled to Ward 116 in Milwaukee, which is 80% Black, for this story. That's in the city's Borchert Field/Arlington Heights neighborhood. 44% (!) of voters were marked for "deterrence" there.

Seriously, watch this report. There's SO MUCH HERE on our city.

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