Donald Trump is testing a novel way to fix a problem that no modern Republican presidential nominee has had.
His quest this week to reach out to black and Hispanic voters has a covert agenda, Republican strategists say, of winning back college-educated whites who historically prefer Republicans but seem to be turned off by Trump’s nativist appeals. …
“White suburban voters think he’s a racist or running a racist campaign. This is designed to make them feel like he is doing minority outreach even though the messaging is completely off-target,” said David Kochel, the former chief strategist for Jeb Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign. “Racism comes up in almost all the verbatim polling and he’s getting creamed in the suburbs.” CONT.
Sahil Kapur, Bloomberg Politics