Posted on 06/20/2019 2:06:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
White working-class voters’ share of the electorate may be shrinking even faster now than in recent years, new data suggest. But that dynamic shows no signs of dampening the growing debate among Democrats about how heavily the party should focus on recapturing the blue-collar whites who have become the foundation of Donald Trump’s electoral coalition.
No choice in 2020 divides Democratic activists more than the question of whether the party needs a nominee best suited to winning back these white voters, who have been drifting away from the party for decades, or one best positioned to mobilize the party’s new alliance of minorities, young people, and white-collar whites, especially women.
The issue has crystallized around former Vice President Joe Biden’s entry into the 2020 race. His supporters and detractors alike have taken his candidacy as a proxy for the larger question of how Democrats can best rebuild a winning presidential majority. Few Biden backers would argue that at 76, with nearly a half century of public life and two failed presidential campaigns behind him, he brings some unique combination of personal qualities that was missing from the roughly 20 other candidates in the race. Rather, the central rationale for his candidacy is the argument that he’s uniquely positioned to recapture some of the working-class white voters who stampeded to Trump in 2016, particularly in the decisive Rust Belt states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin....
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Winning back?
When did they ever have it?
1948.
Good luck.
I certainly hope people are smarter than to fall for the Dem lies.
yeah, that “i love fags, i hate whitey, i love socialism, i hate America” message will make them come back s/
Huh?
When did they ever have it?
How about just appealing to ALL AMERICANS! Stop with the divide and pit one group against the other identity politics.
Watch the rallies.
Trump’s base wants illegals deported with no path to citizenship, and the borders sealed.
That is probably the first, second, and third most important issues.
To gain Trump’s base they will have to deport the illegals and get Credit for having done so.
I don’t see it.
The DEMOCRATS murdered their base via abortion.
President Trump is doing a great deal to upset that applecart.
Just because you are black, or Hispanic, or a woman or Asian does not mean you *must* vote far left.
Remove the everpresent Orwellian indoctrination of the old Media that it Must Be So, you see that a great many blacks, Hispanics, women, and Asians find their interest in voting for Trump, to Make America Great Again.
This posting by FR’s says it best and when printed up makes a good bumper sticker or poster;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3749188/posts/#40
it reads CELEBRATE PERVERSITY each word is against a rainbow background. I suggest adding VOTE PERVOCRAT when you print it up and place that below the two words.celebrate, perversity.
“When did they ever have it?”
My Dad, who fought in WWII, was a working class union Democrat until Reagan. He realized how bad Jimmy Carter was for the nation and switched. He never went back as each Democrat after Reagan was even worse than Carter. Dad didn’t move away from the Democratic party, they moved away from him. He was stanchly pro-American and pro-American jobs. Of course, many Republicans helped gut the job market with “free” trade. Trump is today’s Reagan; pro-American and for trade when it benefits America and America’s workers. Lots of luck winning back this generation of former Democrats. Let’s see, they have a pedophile, a fake Indian, a woman who slept her way into politics, a gaggle of gay and near gay (talin’ to you Beto) players, but nobody with Trump’s gravitas.
They’ve been trashing us for three years and slapping every derogatory label in the book on us... and now they want to “win us back.”
Well, aren’t they precious...
I want them to dream,spend time,energy and money on a dead end. Take 3 or 4 months losers. After Joe bombs out he could be your spokesperson.
Just look at Free Republic. How many of the people who were against Trump are now totally on board The Trump Train?
It's gonna be a boring primary season this time around.
AND, the very best of all, “I like to kill babies.”
Don’t forget ‘reparations’, that’s a sure winner!
The Dems are totally delusional: not only is Trump’s base more committed than ever, but it growing by leaps and bounds as more and more people see what this man has done as President, and more and more people Walk Away from the leftist lunacy, intolerance, intellectual bankruptcy and hatred of America and our citizens of the Democrat Party ...
Trump’s base is rather distant philosophically from the dem candidates.
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