DHAKA: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has made a direct appeal to African-American voters, saying “What do you have to lose?”

Trump told a nearly all-white audience in Michigan that black voters “are living in poverty” and their “schools are no good”, reports the BBC.

He promised to “produce” for African-Americans where Democrats had failed.

“If you keep voting for the same people, you will keep getting exactly the same result,” he said.

He said his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton, “would rather provide a job to a refugee” than to unemployed black youths, “who have become refugees in their own country”.

Hillary Clinton called Trump’s remarks “so ignorant it’s staggering”.

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