Meet Diamond And Silk, Trump's Warmup Act

WFAE | By Tom Bullock

Published March 9, 2016 at 5:41 AM EST

Diamond (left), Silk (center) and Donald Trump (right)

Wednesday night, the Donald Trump road show lands in Fayetteville. He’s holding an event at the Crown Center Coliseum. Before Trump speaks, two women will take the stage, Lynnette Hardaway and Rochelle Richardson. They’ve become regulars at these rallies and the Fayetteville natives will stand out. They go by the nicknames Diamond and Silk. And they’re Trump’s most well-known African-American supporters. Exit polls show they're in the minority of a minority since the vast majority of African-Americans in general and African-American women in particular vote for Democrats. But Diamond and Silk have a provocative message for this electorate. "It's time to get off the Democrats' plantation."

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Tom Bullock decided to trade the khaki clad masses and traffic of Washington DC for Charlotte in 2014. Before joining WFAE, Tom spent 15 years working for NPR. Over that time he served as everything from an intern to senior producer of NPR’s Election Unit. Tom also spent five years as the senior producer of NPR’s Foreign Desk where he produced and reported from Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, Haiti, Egypt, Libya, Lebanon among others. Tom is looking forward to finally convincing his young daughter, Charlotte, that her new hometown was not, in fact, named after her.

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