The crucial Trump voting bloc that drifted to Biden
Donald Trump built his famed “base” around white working-class voters who felt Washington politicians abandoned them. Yet lifelong Washington politician Joe Biden appears to have cornered just enough of those alienated whites to have put him over the top in the 2020 election, making Biden the next U.S. president.
In five crucial battleground states—Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin—Biden gained ground among white voters without a college degree, according to Edison Research exit poll data analyzed by William Frey of the Brookings Institution. The biggest gains among this group came in Arizona, Michigan and Wisconsin. Biden didn’t win this group outright in any state, but he lost them by a smaller margin than Hillary Clinton did in 2016, accounting for at least part of the gain allowing Biden to flip a few crucial states Trump won by small margins in 2016.
Biden appears to have won the U.S. electoral college and therefore the presidential election, with confirmed wins in Michigan and Wisconsin and leads in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania. If Biden holds on to those leads, he’d beat Trump with 306 electoral votes—equal to Trump’s tally in 2016. There could be a surprise or two, but Trump is lying when he claims election fraud and there’s little chance Trump lawsuits will overturn the outcome.
Winning more working-class whites was part of Biden’s strategy all along. He continually emphasized his upbringing in hardscrabble Scranton, Pa, along with his support among unions. In day trips to swing states, Biden argued that Trump’s poor handling of the coronavirus and tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefited the wealthy had let working people down.
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