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BY JULIA MANCHESTER AND SCOTT WONG
08/31/19 05:48 AM EDT
... The GOP forfeited the House in 2018, largely after losing suburban women voters, a key voting bloc .. with whom Trump has proved particularly unpopular ...
The president has sent conflicting signals on taxes and gun reforms, retaliated against a European ally that refused to discuss a sale of Greenland to the U.S., lashed out at Jewish Democrats as disloyal, attacked Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell as an enemy, and suggested the next Group of Seven summit should be held at his own private Florida golf resort.
Trump's not making any inroads in the suburbs. People either love him or hate him, and that's solidifying into concrete in the suburbs, one House GOP lawmaker told The Hill. This style is not helping that" ...
Trumps present support in the suburbs is at dismal levels. An NBC News analysis updated last week shows him underwater in five out of six NBC News/Wall Street Journal polls carried out this year ...
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/459436-gop-fears-trump-backlash-in-suburbs
Control-Z
(15,681 posts)I think it is simply wonderful!
CatMor
(6,212 posts)in2herbs
(2,942 posts)detecting hacking in election machines. The gist of the story was that it wasn't important because it was the rural population.
So now we have evidence of recently hacked election machines in rural areas and it's those areas that need election propping up by the Repugs in order for Trump to win.
Must be Putin practicing for election day.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)that they are simply extensions of urban areas that they surround. Their jobs are in the urban areas or nearby, you only need to be driving near a big city at rush hour to see that. Suburbanites have NOTHING in common with rurals other than sharing the same country.
uponit7771
(90,225 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)people will stop voting against their own best interests.