For black Americans Trump’s campaign offers a straightforward here’s-something-you-want pitch. It’s also doomed because black Americans see the cultural pitches that Trump makes to his base — and how those pitches are often directly in conflict with what black Americans hope to see. Eighty-one percent of black voters think that white Americans overall don’t understand the discrimination faced by black Americans. Most black voters think that Trump deserves hardly any credit for the drop in the black unemployment rate. Over and over Trump thinks he’s delivering concrete wins for black Americans, and, over and over black Americans continue to view his administration with deep disapproval.

Source: Washington Post February 06, 2020 19:52 UTC