Obama: Republicans portraying white men as 'victims' helped Trump win votes
by Amanda Holpuch in New York from US news | The Guardian on (#5AVFK)
Former president made remark about Republican messaging in interview with Breakfast Club
Barack Obama said part of the reason 73 million Americans voted to re-elect Donald Trump in the election was because of messaging from Republicans that the country, particularly white men, are under attack.
In an interview with the radio show the Breakfast Club on Wednesday to promote his new memoir A Promised Land, Obama said Trump's administration, which he did not name directly, objectively has failed, miserably, in handling just basic looking after the American people and keeping them safe", and yet he still secured millions of votes.
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