Posted on 08/23/2015 9:05:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump clearly prides himself in shunning focus-group research. He refuses big campaign donations that he asserts make his opponents beholden to special interests. He seems to target no specific constituency.
Many pollsters remain puzzled by Trump’s political appeal. “Republican support for Donald Trump just continues to grow,” said Patrick Murray, director of Monmouth Polling after its August survey, “with no clear sense of who his constituency really is.”
Yet a constituency is emerging. Trump’s strongest supporters, roughly a quarter of Republican voters across the polls, are not dissuaded by any increased media scrutiny of their candidate. They have overlooked a series of faux pas that might have tanked other candidates.
It appears, however, to be a constituency with whom he has barely interacted: white working-class voters. Their lives are far from the flight path of Trump’s private jet, as he zooms from golf course to grand hotel lobby, television sound stage to penthouse suite...
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.reuters.com ...
I think the MSM is mostly talking to itself.
I might be redneck without portfolio. I am on the left coast with a wife, a teenage son, two dogs and a cat. I am in I T. My only elite issues is that I prefer classical music, and my goofy standard poodle, Rufus is a cousin of Duck Dynasty Cooper.
Trump, through his various companies, has probably provided more private sector jobs than all of the other candidates of both parties combined.
Hey Justin! How about your $300 million dollar mama, Sir Hilary and , multi-billionaire, Little Georgie Soros and the freeloader class. Now there’s some strange butt buddies.
They will now turn this into a race issue. “Uncle Tom” any non-whites who would even consider backing Trump.
Yes, and I posted that thought a few days ago.
You may need to add up jobs provided by all 537 critters in Wash DC to equal how many paychecks Trump signed on the front.
He has 22,500 employees. Only a few are riding around in Trump's jet with him.
Trump has a lot more contact with working class people than this reporter.
One more issue these idiots have no grasp of.
The media hit squads are doing everything they can to terminate Trump, but they don’t understand that that is a big part of his appeal. They aren’t hurting him. They are helping him by proving he’s not just another politician. Americans are tired of politicians.
BTW, I don’t know what’s so wrong with populism.
populism: A political philosophy supporting the rights and power of the people in their struggle against the privileged elite.
Trump is a populist who appeals to common people. How? He’s offering to do what WE want. Compared to politicians who constantly evolve and others who lie to our faces, Trump is refreshing.
Great post. Thanks.
Todays unemployment rate, if calculated the same way as during the great depression, would be higher each year since 2008 as anytime during the great depression. Donald Trump believes it is just over 40%, and has said this a few times recently. And our government has been making it much much worse.
Ronald Reagan said the government isn’t the solution to the problem, the government is the problem. I believe that is the issue now.
There would have an easy fix in 2008, and I believe there still could be an easy fix now.
If they were serious about igniting the economy, they would have removed the heinous taxes and regulations from businesses and individuals. Until this abomination of boat anchor taxes and regulations are removed from businesses and people, then the economy will continue be nothing but stagnate.
When you hear monetary policy, or central bank actions, or some such nonsense; remember it is just a smoke screen to continue illegal, tyrannical, unconstitutional, 3rd world dictatorship marxist policies on the people of the United States of America.
Remove the taxes and regulations from business and people, allow the business and people create and innovate regulation and government free, then you will see the economy take off and the people prosper.
This has to be killing the libs. He has the Reagan Democrats all lining up again.
They are so afraid that Trump just might win this thing, most of them are going to need an enema before this thing is over
Ha...that might be a good thing...they produce so much verbal diarrhea.
Yea, they were hoping for the Envy crowd to run to Bush, the Millionaire. He isn’t as Rich as Hillary or Lieawatha, but those two really care about the Serfs because they are Democrats, it’s true, really.
Trump worked in the Family Business since he was a Kid and he took it over when his Father Retired.
His Kids will do the same.
That used to be an American tradition, then the Democrats confused the terms Hard Work with Fair Share, or was it Winning Life’s Lottery?
I remember when Reuters representatives were photoshopping images from Lebanon in 2006 so they could demonize the Israelis.
Remember Green Helmet guy?
Here is one from Beirut:
The Godzilla image is obviously a joke, but the black smoke imagery was literally photo-shopped in by Reuters agents.
Yes, well if the race card doesn’t work, ...have they accused him of being a homophone yet? Cuz I can’t wait to see how he’s gonna answer that. Should be highly entertaining.
White working class respects hard work and doesn’t resent
If you make money doing it.
They are going for him in a big way.
But you get a sense of where this is all going. If they can make the case that working class people don't like him, he's an elitist. If it turns out they do go for him its White Identity.
But we're going to find out that people at all stations, all colors, all ethnicities go for him. Democrats are going to vote for him in big numbers. And the reason isn't complicated; he is for them, not as ethnicities, but as Americans. And he says it loudly so everyone gets it.
Others may feel the same way, but the press can't silence him the way it does them. And he doesn't mince words the way most of them do. This is key: you may have another candidate you favor over Trump, but aside from one, they all mince words, measure their words, carefully calculate and focus-group their positions, and they will never get any traction.
Trump doesn't have that problem, he was never the shrinking violet.
These are the experts? Based on their comments they're not only puzzled but dazed and confused. Trump resonates with all folks including blacks who haven't been influenced by some of their own folk. Someone should post that recent video link with over 4 million hits/views. The black woman about the chaotic violence. A link is here some where. Not all black folk act like what some do in Baltimore etc. A lot are appalled and totally embarrassed by it. Make America great again? A lot of black folks are encouraged and not just for their own communities, but for their country. They understand were bleeding across the board and everything is at stake. They see the results of reckless government policies on their own streets. The video is worth watching.
I suspect that with all the construction projects he has promoted and built he would have to have interacted with working class folk.
Ya, race card isn’t going to work because of people like this.
Two ladies stumpin for Trump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRKhrWLHv4Q
MSNBC SCREWS US OVER BECAUSE WE STUMP FOR TRUMP
http://webesisters.com/
“MSNBC weekend show UP WITH STEVE KORNACKI, (Steve was a former Dunkin’ Donuts boy), invited us on his show to speak about our support for Trump. But then at the very last second uninvited us when we wouldn’t provide the name of our employers, and deeply personal information. Why they need that? So they could do a hit piece on us. So after dedicating 4 hours to be on his show, they cancelled us because we want to protect our privacy. They try to spread hate about Trump at MSNBC, and now they try to do it to us. But we don’t play that game, we fight fire with fire! Please share this video to help us get the word out!”
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