What’s in Trump’s 2020 playbook? Leaning into racially divisive bombs to excite his base and rile up progressives.
With 16 months until the next election, President Donald Trump is making a key plank of his strategy clear: lean into racially divisive statements and other inflammatory rhetoric.
“Is this really your campaign strategy? Attack as many people of color as possible?” Sharpton shot back in his own tweet, after listing off the 10 politicians and people of color who Trump has gone after in recent weeks.Sign Up Former Vice President Joe Biden recently called Trump “more George Wallace than George Washington,” comparing him to the segregationist former governor of Alabama who ran for president four times and employed his own strategy of stirring up racial divisions.
That what-has-he-got-to-lose approach comes because Trump won just 8 percent of the African American vote in 2016 while Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton won 89 percent, according to. Latinos and Asian voters also overwhelmingly supported Clinton, while Trump won 57 percent of white voters’ support and Clinton won 37 percent. It was the support of white voters, who were very animated by Trump’s restrictionist immigration policies, that handed him the election.
That could present challenges for the Trump campaign as it attempts to chart a narrow path to victory through states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, all of which Trump won in 2016 by less than 1 percentage point, or roughly 80,000 votes, while losing the overall popular vote. “Of the 3,000 inmates released so far under the First Step Act, more than 90 percent were black,” he added. “This is the president’s real record in the black community.”Trump has always employed an us-versus-them mentality in business, his 2016 campaign, the White House and now heading into 2020, where he rewards loyalists and tears down any politicians or institutions critical of him.
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