23 February,2016 09:16 AM IST | | Agencies
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has alleged that countries like China and India are taking away jobs from the US and vowed to bring them back for Americans
Donald Trump
Washington: Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has alleged that countries like China and India are taking away jobs from the US and vowed to bring them back for Americans.
Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Georgia World Congress Center. Pic/AFP
Trump made the remarks while predicting that he will earn a "tremendous amount" of support from African-Americans. "You are seeing the stories when African-American leaders are saying, âmy people really like Trump' because I am going to bring jobs back from China, from Mexico, Japan and Vietnam and India...and all these places that are taking our jobs and I am going to bring back jobs," he said.
"I'm going to do great with the African-Americans. African-American youth is 58 per cent unemployed. African-Americans in their prime are substantially worse off than the whites, and it's a very sad situation," the 69-year-old said.
Trump, known for being openly critical of many countries like China, Mexico and Japan in many of his speeches, had last month said India is "doing great" but no one talks about it.
Trump has a number of real estate interests in India. His remarks on Sunday came after his victory in the South Carolina primary. The victory gave him two wins and one second-place finish in the first three primaries.
Trump also predicted that the presidential contest will be between him and Hillary Clinton and they will bring out the "greatest turnout" in US history.
