In one of the least shocking pieces of Trump news this week, the latest polls confirm what absolutely everyone already knew: Black voters have shifted even further away from Trump in the wake of his “What do you have to lose?” campaign.
Philip Bump@The Washington Post (9/11/16): “From the outset, Donald Trump’s ostensible pitch to black voters seemed iffy. He suggested that black Americans mostly (or entirely) lived in poverty in America’s inner cities and used a wildly inaccurate unemployment number for younger blacks … At it’s heart, Trump argued that Democrats hadn’t fixed society’s endemic problems, so ‘what do you have to lose?’ by voting Trump?… So how’d that outreach to black and Hispanic voters go? The new Washington Post-ABC News poll allows us to see. And it went about as well as expected.”
