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Yavin4

(35,443 posts)
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 11:20 AM Feb 2019

Trump gets the poor and working class White America to essentially vote for the 1%'s agenda.

That's why the Republican party does not turn on him. It's the source of his power over the party. Prime example, there was a massive tax cut for the top 1%, but no wall funding when the Republicans held power.

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Trump gets the poor and working class White America to essentially vote for the 1%'s agenda. (Original Post) Yavin4 Feb 2019 OP
A myth according to several studies and reports Bradshaw3 Feb 2019 #1
LBJ and Nixon Wellstone ruled Feb 2019 #2
Yes...and if the gop doesn't play nice he'll split off those voters and the gop will be done. nt wiggs Feb 2019 #3
Republicans in general Bettie Feb 2019 #4
He's been busy using duforsure Feb 2019 #5
Here is a gift to send your repuke friends & relatives..... Elwood P Dowd Feb 2019 #6

Bradshaw3

(7,522 posts)
1. A myth according to several studies and reports
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 11:35 AM
Feb 2019

From the WaPo: Most trump voters were not working class

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/06/05/its-time-to-bust-the-myth-most-trump-voters-were-not-working-class/?utm_term=.7ce462ba4067

More statistical data here:
http://www.people-press.org/2018/08/09/an-examination-of-the-2016-electorate-based-on-validated-voters/

and here:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/631244/voter-turnout-of-the-exit-polls-of-the-2016-elections-by-income/

Of course many of those analyses include a portion of non-white voters but recent data points to two main factors in tRump's election: race and college education. More educated voters went for Clinton, but education and income don't always correlate; just ask a teacher and an electrician about their income.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
2. LBJ and Nixon
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 12:20 PM
Feb 2019

worked the Poor White Vote much the same way. Just convince them they are better than the poor Black and Brown folk down the street.

Bettie

(16,111 posts)
4. Republicans in general
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 12:45 PM
Feb 2019

do this.

His "true believers" are the Republican base...the worst and dimmest rather than the best and brightest.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
5. He's been busy using
Thu Feb 21, 2019, 12:58 PM
Feb 2019

Bait and switch tactics on the gullible people he seeks out . He claimed he'd never touch Medicaid ,Medicare, and Social Security then signed into law with the GOPs help taking just under 2 trillion out of them, or that Mexico would pay for the wall, all bait and switch tactics often used by con men. He claimed also he'd make drug costs decrease then took millions from the big pharma companies and watched them skyrocket upward. They've been conned.

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