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CIVIL rights activist Al Sharpton has admitted Donald Trump appealed to black and minority voters after criticizing the US president's response to the Black Lives Matter protests.

After accusing Trump of trying to make Black Lives Matter protesters "look like hoodlums and thugs" earlier this year, Sharpton admitted Trump had appealed to black and Hispanic voters in the presidential election.

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Despite his attacks on the BLM movement, Trump picked up 20 per cent of black male voters this year, according to an NBC News poll, up two per cent from 2016.

Speaking on MSNBC'sMorning Joeshow, Sharpton said Trump "has done better than, in my judgment, he should have with black men and Hispanics".

He said there needs to be a "real conversation" in the civil rights communities "on what it is to be different in terms of being entrepreneurial aspirants".

"I think he appealed to some that wanted to feel that they had to be a certain kind of way to be aspirational and that you can be that and still be centrists," said Sharpton.

"I think that a lot of them bought into the false view they were putting out on Joe Biden with the crime bill rather than dealing with the fact that Joe Biden was going along with the majority of people, even in the black leadership with the black crime bill."

Last month, Bidenadmitted it was a "mistake" to support a controversial crime bill which critics said laid the foundations for mass incarceration.

But Biden still defended parts of the 1994 legislation.

The NBC poll revealed 80 per cent percent of black men supported Biden, down from Hilary Clintons 82 per cent in 2016, but significantly down from Barack Obamas support among black men in 2012 and 2008.

Who is Al Sharpton?

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Al Sharpton is an American civil right activist, Baptist minister, talk show host and politician.

He's the founder of the National Action Network, a not-for-profit, civil rights organisation.

In 2004, Sharpton was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election.

In 2011, he was named the host of MSNBC's PoliticsNation.

His phrase 'get your knee off our necks' became a national rallying cry for black Americans after he said it at the Minneapolis memorial for George Floyd.

He also gave the eulogy for Mr Floyd at a private funeral after the 46-year-old died when he was being arrested outside a shop in Minneapolis.

Footage of the arrest on May 25 shows a white police officer, Derek Chauvin, kneeling on Mr Floyd's neck while he was pinned to the floor.

Chauvin, 44, has since been charged with murder.

Earlier this year, Trump claimed Black Lives Matter was "destroying many lives because it "spread violence across the US".

TheBlack Lives Matter movementis the civil rights group that came about in response to extreme police brutality.

Trump blasted the movement during a speech at an event called Black Economic Empowerment where he set out his platinum plan for Black voters.

Taking up the issue of the recent high-profile deaths of several Black American at the hands of the police, Trump said: "Many of those who are spreading violence in our cities are supporters of an organization called Black Lives Matter or BLM.

"Its really hurting the Black community. This is an unusual name for an organization whose ideology and tactics are right now destroying many Black lives."

Speaking at Floyd's funeral, Sharpton used the stage to criticize Trump, telling mourners the president used the St Johns Church outside the White House as a "prop" for his photo-op during the BLM protests.

Wickedness in high places, Sharpton said of Trump.

Later, Sharpton also slammed the president for "projecting those that are violent" and said "he tries to act like Black Lives Matter and Antifa is the same thing".

Despite Trump's comments, he and his Republican allies made significant inroads with Latino voters in Tuesday's election, alarming some Democrats who warned that immigration politics alone was not enough to hold their edge with the nation's largest minority group.

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In Texas, Trump won tens of thousands of new supporters in predominantly Mexican American communities along the border.

Biden still won a sizable majority (63 per cent) of Latino voters nationwide, compared to Trump's 35 per cent, according to AP VoteCast.

But Trump was able to shave that margin in some competitive states, like Florida and Nevada.

However, Sharpton accused the Trump campaign of "distorting" Kamala Harris record and depicting the Democrats as socialists.

He called it "false propaganda" which many Americans bought into.

"I really believe there is going to be a lot of work in those areas, Sharpton told Morning Joe.

"If we ignore it, or act like it doesnt matter, I think is not wise and I think if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, if theyre successful, are going to have to really work."

Key Democrats also said the Republican Party's attacks against them as wild-eyed socialists had been damaging, and some of the party's most liberal proposals caused problems.

They cited the "defund the police" movement which calls for shifting law enforcement resources to social workers and other ways of resolving conflicts.

It gained prominence over summer after the death of George Floyd sparked a nationwide reckoning on racial injustice.

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"I think that the Democratic party needs to clearly push that we are not supportive of ideas like socialism or defunding the police or anti-Semitism," Rep. Stephanie Murphy, a co-chair of the centrist Blue Dog Coalition, said.

Several Democrats said the socialist label particularly harmed lawmakers who lost seats in Florida with its vast Cuban and Venezuelan communities who largely reject socialist ideologies.

"This playing footsies with socialism is not going to win over most of America," Murphy said.

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