“Eight years ago when Barack Obama took office, 60 percent of the children of Detroit were living in abject poverty. Eight years later, as Barack Obama gets ready to leave office, 60 percent of the children of Detroit still live in abject poverty,” Riddle said.
“Now some will say that that’s because a recalcitrant Republican Congress, but the reality is that the children of Detroit and urban America have suffered the malignant neglect of the Democratic party that we have blindly been giving our votes to, and they’ve delivered nothing to us,” he said.