host: daniel allott? guest: with the first vice president-elect is a woman and a minority, that is progress. namealler mentioned the "trump's america." there's a lot of debate over the name of the book. is it trump's america? so much focus of our culture and politics on trump that it is his time, and that is why we titled the book "trump's america." host: i want to go back to the nine areas you covered in researching for the book, you mentioned howard county in our. they're places like ridge county, california, yuri county, pennsylvania. how often did you encounter minorities, in particular, african-americans who were trump supporters? guest: quite often. i try to seek out people who are different. i would look for immigrants or people of color and i did find quite a few minorities and immigrants as well who supported trump. we saw in the election results this year, a lot of people were surprised how will trump did relative to previous public and candidates among latinos and asian americans, among black m

host: daniel allott? guest: with the first vice president-elect is a woman and a minority, that is progress. namealler mentioned the "trump's america." there's a lot of debate over the name of the book. is it trump's america? so much focus of our culture and politics on trump that it is his time, and that is why we titled the book "trump's america." host: i want to go back to the nine areas you covered in researching for the book, you mentioned howard county in our. they're places like ridge county, california, yuri county, pennsylvania. how often did you encounter minorities, in particular, african-americans who were trump supporters? guest: quite often. i try to seek out people who are different. i would look for immigrants or people of color and i did find quite a few minorities and immigrants as well who supported trump. we saw in the election results this year, a lot of people were surprised how will trump did relative to previous public and candidates among latinos and asian americans, among black m

host: daniel allott?st: with the first vice president-elect is a woman and a minority, that is progress. namealler mentioned the "trump's america." there's a lot of debate over the name of the book. is it trump's america? so much focus of our culture and politics on trump that it is his time, and that is why we titled the book "trump's america." host: i want to go back to the nine areas you covered in researching for the book, you mentioned howard county in our. they're places like ridge county, california, yuri county, pennsylvania. how often did you encounter minorities, in particular, african-americans who were trump supporters? guest: quite often. i try to seek out people who are different. i would look for immigrants or people of color and i did find quite a few minorities and immigrants as well who supported trump. we saw in the election results this year, a lot of people were surprised how will trump did relative to previous public and candidates among latinos and asian americans, among black men.

host: we are joined by daniel allott, opinion editor at "the hill" and author of the book "on the road in trump's america: a journey into the heart of a divided nation." you for being with us on this christmas morning. >> thank you for having me. host: what was the reason you wrote the book? guest: the 2016 election exposed a realis

allott, author daniel discusses his book "on the road in trump's america." , clarence page looks at politics in the year in review. host: the u.s. house failed to deliver a christmas gift from president trump. the house will try again monday but on this christmas day and ,eginning the holiday weekend as covid cases climb in unemployed workers wonder what is ahead, it could feel to them like a pandemic lump of coal in their christmas stocking. it is friday, december 25. this is "washington journal." merry christmas. we will spend