President Donald Trump received an unprecedented number of votes in this year’s election as Republicans systematically promote the idea that white men are victims in the United States. Former Democratic President Barack Obama said in The Breakfast Club, who also said Hispanic voters had ignored Trump’s racist remarks this year and backed him up in record numbers for resistance to abortion.
“I always find an interesting measure in Republican politics that the idea of white men being victims. That they are the target of an attack – which obviously doesn’t match history, data or economics,” said the ex-president, who came on the show in connection with the recent release of the first part of his memoirs called A Promised Land, of which over 1.7 million copies were sold in the first week.
“It’s a sincere belief that they internally agree with, it’s a story that is being told. And unraveling it will not be something that will work right away, it will take some time,” Obama added.
The Democrat also expressed the belief that Americans of Latin American descent leaned towards Trump to a greater extent this year than four years ago because the Republican is opposed to the right to voluntary abortion.
“There are a lot of strongly believing Hispanics who don’t consider the fact that Trump says racist things about Mexicans or puts people detained undocumented in cages as important as supporting their position on gay marriage or abortion,” the ex-president said. According to surveys, 32 percent of voters with Latin American roots voted for Trump this year, up from 28 percent four years ago.
The BBC noted that the cell facilities in which US immigration authorities detain migrants on the southern border of the United States were created under the Obama administration.
Obama is one of Trump’s loudest critics
Obama has been criticized by many Republicans for his remarks, including Senator Tom Cotton, who, according to observers, is likely to seek a Republican nomination to the White House in four years. “Barack Obama is again very, very disappointed with Americans, this time believing Hispanics, who prioritize their values and economic interests over conscious liberal obsessions,” he wrote. “Some Democrats think they can criticize the values and religious beliefs of Hispanics and still get their votes by playing a racial card,” wrote Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbot.
The Democratic ex-president has become one of Trump’s most vocal critics in recent months, although he has avoided attacks on his successor in recent years. In an interview with presenter and comedian Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, he said Trump could have taken faster and better coordinated action in response to the covid-19 pandemic, noting that dealing with the virus was not particularly difficult.
Trump has received nearly 73.9 million votes from voters so far, the second-highest number in U.S. history and the largest figure for any Republican White House candidate. Trump thus broke the previous record from 2008, which belonged to Obama, who then added about 69.5 million votes. However, Trump’s rival Joe Biden, who according to media projections will replace the Republican in the White House, has already exceeded 80 million votes this year. The census in some US states continues, and the number of votes cast for both candidates will increase slightly.
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