Trump to speak at Black journalists convention, as Harris erases his lead in polls

• Donald Trump is set to field reporters' questions at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention in Chicago.
• The event, which stirred controversy inside and outside the group, gives Trump an opportunity to directly appeal to voters of color as he campaigns against Vice President Kamala Harris.
• Trump won just 12% of Black voters in his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden, according to exit polls of that race.

Donald Trump is set to field reporters' questions at the National Association of Black Journalists Annual Convention in Chicago on Wednesday, as he re-tools his presidential campaign to combat his likely rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Republican nominee's Q&A before a live convention audience is expected to focus on the biggest issues facing the Black community, NABJ said.

Trump will be speaking with Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner, ABC News senior congressional correspondent Rachel Scott and politics reporter Kadia Goba of Semafor. It will be livestreamed at 1 p.m. ET on the group's Facebook and YouTube pages.

The event gives Trump, who won just 12% of Black voters in his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden, an opportunity to directly appeal to voters of color.

But he may have more trouble courting these voters in a competition against Harris, who is the first Black person, first woman and first person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president.

Some polls already show that Harris has more support among Black, Latino and young voters than Biden did before she replaced him as the de facto Democratic nominee.

On Tuesday, a new Bloomberg/Morning Consult survey of battleground states found that Harris has effectively eliminated Trump's lead in the seven battleground