When Donald Trump began his outreach efforts to black and Hispanic voters, liberals in the mainstream media reacted with amusement, hostility, or a bit of both. Writing for The Atlantic in August, David A. Graham declared that Trump’s “approach [to black voters] seems doomed to failure.” According to Graham, Trump’s focus on economic issues won’t work with blacks because “black Americans lean liberal and simply disagree with his signature policies.” “It’s the largest shift we’ve seen in a one-week period since we began polling in July.” “It’s hard to imagine what he could do at this point to dramatically change his polling,” Graham wrote. Dara Lind, writing for Vox, argued that Trump’s minority outreach had nothing to do with reaching out to minorities, and that it was “probably too little too late.” The real reason for the outreach, Lind wrote, was that “wavering Republicans are still looking for a reason to vote Trump. And Trump’s show of racial unity is what