US politicians break most campaign promises: Journalist
US politicians break most of their campaign promises after they are elected and President-elect Donald Trump probably won’t keep many of his pledges, a writer and political analyst in Chicago says.
“Trump, like all presidential aspirants, or political aspirants in America in all levels -- federal, state, and local -- make promises to people to win votes; they make all kinds of promises [but] when they get into office, they may quickly be forgotten,” Stephen Lendman said during an interview with Press TV on Thursday.
“Ignore what politicians say when they’re campaigning; follow only what they do once they get into office,” Lendman said.
“Trump made an awful lot of pledges as a candidate” but he may not follow through on many of them, he added.
Trump won the US presidency despite extreme unpopularity among minorities, underscoring deep national divisions that have fuelled incidents of racial and political confrontation across the country.
Trump was elected to the White House with 8 percent of the African American vote, 28 percent of the Latino vote and 27 percent of the Asian-American vote, according to the Reuters/Ipsos Election Day poll.
Among Asian-Americans, Trump's performance was the worst of any winning presidential nominee since tracking of that demographic began in 1992.
The racial polarization behind Trump’s victory over Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has helped set the stage for tensions that have surfaced repeatedly since the election.
There has been a sharp spike in the number of hate crimes after the election, according to the FBI.
Hundreds of racist, xenophobic and anti-Semitic hate crimes have also been documented by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which tracks extremist movements.
Leftist and anarchist groups have called for their supporters to disrupt Trump’s inauguration ceremony on January 20 and thousands of women plan a “Women’s March on Washington” the following day.
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