To raise money for re-election, Mayor Roberts is targeting President Trump

As Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts starts what’s expected to be a difficult re-election campaign, she has focused on someone more than 300 miles away: President Donald Trump.

In fundraising emails to supporters, the Democratic mayor said Trump is “moving at a breakneck pace on his dangerous agenda” and has “peddled racist, xenophobic and sexist statements.” She blasted the president’s “toxic environment,” which includes having federal immigration officials “detain crime victims who report their assailants.”

She said Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has ideals that would result in the “poisoning of North Carolina’s schools” and criticized Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch for ruling “against birth control access multiple times in his career.”

In another campaign email, Roberts said the General Assembly will “play games” with the state’s economy by not repealing House Bill 2, and she told supporters last week the state’s and federal government’s recent actions “have been absolutely horrifying for LGBTQ civil rights.”

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