During his presidential campaign, Trump challenged black voters to give him a shot at following Barack Obama, the first black president in American history. But in the first election that is a referendum on his presidency, Trump appears to have abandoned any effort to turn out black voters for his party. Many black voters labeled his portrayal of the black American experience as offensive and condescending before ultimately choosing to support Democrat Hillary Clinton. And Omarosa Manigault Newman, once the most powerful black person in the White House, has the rare distinction of having been fired from both Trump’s reality show and White House. According to the Quinnipiac University poll, only 8 percent of black Americans approve of him.

Source: Washington Post November 05, 2018 19:19 UTC