Trump's strategy to win over black voters seems ill-equipped to reckon with the fact that he’s less in a war of ideas with Obama’s legacy than a popularity contest with the most popular living president in America
President Barack Obama greets President-Elect Donald Trump prior to his inauguration on January 20, 2017. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images It’s no secret that President Trump is making a concerted reelection pitch to black voters, who backed Hillary Clinton over him by a staggering 80 percentage points in 2016.
But Tuesday’s speech laid bare another incongruity complicating Trump’s appeals to the black electorate, one that’s both overlooked and perhaps more predictable than Trump’s flagrant bigotry and tendency to cast majority-black countries, cities, and neighborhoods as filthy hellholes: Trump’s political career is predicated upon smearing and disparaging Barack Obama, his black predecessor. And Obama is overwhelmingly popular among black Americans.
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