According to this article, they dont. Seattle Times is about as left leaning as newspapers can go, so I think if there had been even the thinnest connection to recruits avoiding Leach due to Trump support, the newspaper would have made it.
https://www.seattletimes.com/sports...ement-of-donald-trump-influence-his-recruits/
I think it's incredibly patronizing and insulting to African Americans to insinuate that they are such simple minded people that they can't tell the difference between a coach being Anti-Obama and a coach that is actually a racist. I respect their intelligence a **** of a lot more than that, which the article also supports. Most recruits are sophisticated enough to know that they are committing to a school, not a head coach since there is a good chance that the HC isn't going to be there at the end of their college career.