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    In Detroit, African Americans opposed to Trump in 2020 don't want 'same ole, same ole' from Democrats

    by Tyrone Beason, Los Angeles Times Sep 04, 2019 5 minutes

    DETROIT - Oriana Powell's decision not to vote in the 2016 presidential election haunts her.

    In the 2 1/2 years since Donald Trump won her traditionally Democratic home state of Michigan by fewer than 12,000 votes, she says she's been alarmed by the way he's inflamed racial tensions and anti-immigrant hostility.

    "I didn't really contemplate what that would mean - giving it to the other side," said the 30-year-old Democrat and Detroit native.

    Powell's definitely voting in 2020. And she's doing more than that. She's joined the front lines as a grassroots political organizer in hopes of exciting other black women voters in and around Detroit about ousting President Trump from the White House.

    There's just one problem: Many of her fellow African American voters, a core segment of this state's Democratic base, also feel the party let them down. In Detroit in 2016, voter turnout dipped compared with

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