"Look how bad it is getting!" Donald Trump tweeted. | Getty Trump to minority voters: 'I will stop the slaughter'

Donald Trump stepped up his push for non-white voters Monday, asking bluntly how much more crime would have to occur until African-Americans and Latinos would support him.

"Look how bad it is getting!" Trump tweeted. "How much more crime, how many more shootings, will it take for African-Americans and Latinos to vote Trump=SAFE!"


He then added this tweet, "Inner-city crime is reaching record levels. African-Americans will vote for Trump because they know I will stop the slaughter going on!"

Look how bad it is getting! How much more crime, how many more shootings, will it take for African-Americans and Latinos to vote Trump=SAFE! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2016





Inner-city crime is reaching record levels. African-Americans will vote for Trump because they know I will stop the slaughter going on! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2016





Trump pushed the issue later in the same hour, observing that African-American voters would avoid Hillary Clinton because of similar policies and management in "the inner-cities."

Now that African-Americans are seeing what a bad job Hillary type policy and management has done to the inner-cities, they want TRUMP! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 29, 2016





The tweets come after the Republican nominee received blowback for pointing to the fatal shooting of Chicago Bulls player Dwyane Wade's cousin over the weekend as a symptom of his view that African-American voters would come around to supporting him.

Trump's poll numbers among black voters have been in the low single digits, and his campaign announced late Sunday night that he would travel to Detroit later this week to speak to the bishop of a predominantly African-American church.

