'The kind of voter Trump can't lose:' Working-class white women drift toward Democrats

[babylonsister]

‘The kind of voter Trump can’t lose:’ Working-class white women drift toward Democrats
By David Catanese
November 05, 2019 04:00 AM, Updated 4 hours 17 minutes ago


One of the essential storylines of the 2016 presidential election was the hidden Donald Trump voter: the person who wasn’t surveyed by pollsters or comfortable telling friends or family about who they thought was best to lead the country.

Three years ago, thousands of these Americans — many working-class, residing in the middle of the country — helped deliver the most astounding electoral surprise in modern history. Now, as they review the Trump presidency a year before his re-election, some are showing signs of turning on conventional wisdom again.

Heather, a local administrative assistant here who is married with a stroller-bound toddler, is still so embarrassed by her 2016 vote that she wasn’t comfortable revealing her last name.

“I’m ashamed to admit . . . But I’m of a more conservative bent and family. I just couldn’t vote for Hillary. But I also thought there’s no way Trump was going to win. This way, I could at least say, ‘Well I didn’t vote for her,’” she said. “I didn’t think I was doing any harm.”

While Heather isn’t sharing her conversion far and wide, she’s already decided “there’s no chance” she’d vote for Trump again. “Heavens no,” she said. “Trump basically turned me into a Democrat.”

The 2020 presidential campaign has been engrossed in a debate over which demographic groups Democrats should devote most of their attention to in order to reclaim the White House. African-Americans in urban areas? Rural voters who flipped from Barack Obama to Trump? Newly emerging but unreliable young people?

But the one pivotal group showing the most evident signs of splitting from the president are white working-class women, according to a review of polling data, focus groups and interviews with more than a dozen party strategists and voters like Heather.

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[Fresh_Start]

1. I approve all attempts to turn

white working class women.

Women are more practical and see the day to day consequences better than the equivalent males.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. how do these half-wits define "conservative"? synonymous with "destructive"?

A true conservative simply wants change to happen no faster than the general public can handle. That's ALL.

[uponit7771]

3. Somethings REALLY screwed up with state level polling, the state level polls didn't answer last time

... to why their numbers were so off after Russia hacked so many systems.

They should be made to answer now

[NCLefty]

4. "I'm of a more conservative bent and family. I just couldn't vote for Hillary." --But WHY??

Hillary was a centrist. :/

[babylonsister]

5. Perhaps b/c she listened to faux and all

they did 24/7 was bash Clinton?

[NCLefty]

6. That was my thought too. They trashed her good.

[struggle4progress]

7. Celebrate 100 years of Women's Suffrage by sweeping away the Grabbers Of Pussy