Obama drew about 93 percent of the black vote, critical to his margins in such battlegrounds as Ohio and Florida. Brooks said the Trump campaign cited scheduling conflicts with the GOP convention, where Trump will formally accept the party's nomination. Trump has boasted that he could win as much as one-quarter of the black vote nationally. NAACP president Cornell William Brooks told CNN Tuesday that Trump had declined the group's invitation to speak at the Cincinnati gathering, scheduled from Saturday through Wednesday. He called the gathering an opportunity for Clinton and Trump to give civil rights leaders "a window into not only their policies, but into their heart and character as a candidate."

Source: ABC News July 13, 2016 01:52 UTC