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The difficulty with this narrative is that's not where most of his votes came from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/05/its-time-to-bu
by scott_s 9y ago
The difficulty with this narrative is that's not where most of his votes came from: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/05/its-time-to-bust-the-myth-most-trump-voters-were-not-working-class/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/0... Your explanation may be why those people voted for him, but it's not enough to explain why he won.
- makomk 9y agoMost of his votes came from the same place that most of any other Republican candidate's votes come from, including the ones that lost. Most of the swing towards the Republican candidate that caused him to win, unlike John McCain and Mitt Romney who also had the support of those wealthy Republicans, came from working class and less well off voters.
- PKop 9y agoNobody is claiming that most of his voters are industrial midwestern working class. It is the net change from recent Republican candidates that point to those class of voters. And it is most certainly this group that explains why he won. He won Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. You realize that hasn't happened in quite a while for a Republican right?