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Donald Trump promised Friday night that if elected president, he will win 95 percent of the African-American vote in his reelection bid. Renewing his effort to reach out to black voters at a rally Friday evening, Trump suggested that Democratic politicians that overwhelmingly govern in America’s inner cities have failed African-Americans. Trump told the Dimondale, Michigan, crowd that “we can

"It is impossible for African-Americans not to feel like their government is particularly targeting them," writes Senator Rand Paul (R-TN) in a new article posted on Time's website.

Paul, a libertarian, has made past efforts to harness civil-liberties issues as part of an outreach to communities of color and has even put together some bipartisan legislation on criminal justice issues.

Michigan Rep. Justin Amash said Thursday that he's leaving the Republican party to become an independent as modern politics remains "trapped in a partisan death spiral."

Penning an op-ed in the Washington Post on the July 4th holiday, Amash described how he had become "disenchanted with party politics" and "frightened by what I see from it."

"The two-party system has evolved into

In 2008 then Senator Obama campaigned on the promise of ending the war in Iraq and bringing combat troops home. In 2012, Obama touted that promise as complete (one of the only campaign promises he actually kept) and critics warned leaving Iraq without a residual U.S. force would result in a power vacuum and vulnerable state. Now as the country falls apart and the radical Islamic State army