Posted on 04/28/2016 12:30:08 PM PDT by VA Voter
Not only is Donald Trump likely to gather the most votes of any GOP Presidential nominee ever, having swept the East Coast and crushed the anti-Trump alliance between Kasich and Cruz even before it made the news cycle; but now, as Reuters reports, the GOP establishment faces an ever bigger problem. Wealthy, well-educated voters helped carry the Republican front-runner to victory this week - a demographic the famously blunt-spoken billionaire had struggled to attract in the past.
As we noted previously, with a number of states remaining including California, Trump is set to surpass current record holder George W. Bush, who received 10.8 million votes in 2000.
And, as Reuters reports, it's not just "angry blue collar white men"...
Trump's sweep of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island on Tuesday included wins in some of the richest and best-educated counties in the country - like Fairfield County, Connecticut, and Newport County, Rhode Island - and added to victories in his more traditional strongholds of white working-class neighborhoods.
Exit polls from Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Maryland showed Trump winning about half of Republican voters with college degrees, and over half of Republican voters making more than $100,000 a year.
“On its face, it is hard to believe he’d be improving with a demographic group that has been so averse to his style, his denigrating language,” said Randall Miller, a professor of American politics at Saint Joseph’s University in Pennsylvania.
“But I think people may have gotten used to Trump, he’s not as outrageous as he used to be,” he said, adding that familiarity with the businessman's brand in the Northeast may also have helped him.
But with Trump far ahead of his rivals, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas and Ohio Governor John Kasich, in the race for the presidential nomination, Miller said Republican voters of all stripes may become more resigned to voting for Trump.
"I think it is possible he replicates this."
Trump has historically done well in areas where the collapse of important local industries has put stress on working families - propelling his popularity among poorer white voters drawn to his rhetoric about inept government and failed international trade deals.
A Franklin and Marshall College voter survey released last week showed Trump's message of disaffection had sunk in across the state. Just under 40 percent of voters cited "government, politicians" as the most important problem facing Pennsylvania, with "unemployment, personal finances” ranked a distant second at 14 percent.
In the affluent Maryland suburbs of Montgomery and Howard counties, where more than 60 percent of whites hold college degrees, Trump claimed a smaller 40 percent share of the Republican vote. It was still enough for a first-place finish over Cruz and Kasich.
Fred Stubbs, 72, a retired accountant from Potomac, Maryland, said he voted for Trump on Tuesday because he believed the real estate mogul would improve the country's standing in the world.
As Trump said aftewr "the sweep" - "as far as I'm concerned, it's over"
Polls did not match actual voter demographics which have remained steady across all demographics, including wealthy educated -since New Hampshire.
Kevin Williamson and the rest of the snobs over a National Review need to form their own party. The tent’s not big enough for their type...
Works for me.
Nothing. That was my point. GWB was a Republican. Not a Conservative. Trump isn't either. But I hope he isn't a Lib either. And I hope he beats Hillary by double digits so all of her cheating will avail her not.
What other option is there? Go to work I guess. But, I'll be there for The Donald.
We have a neighbor/friend who grew up in New Jersey. Very nice man with a good sense of humor. He likes Trump. (his wife doesn’t) He says that’s just how people talk/are in NJ and NY.
Bwahahaha.
Only to idiots.
I would have told them, accurately.
Trump is more conservative than GWB. He will build a wall.
The Establishment including the LSM weren’t smart enough to know what they didn’t know. That We Trump supporters were actually the smart ones , and they are the dumb ones.
“Polls did not match actual voter demographics which have remained steady across all demographics, including wealthy educated -since New Hampshire.”
I’m not trying to be a jerk - I haven’t the slightest idea what you’re trying to say here?
I was responding to your saying this:
“Was nationalism not popular earlier this year when Trump wasn’t polling as well with “Wealthy, well-educated” voters?”
There has never been a time in this primary where he did not do very well with ‘wealthy, well-educated’ voters in actual vote results. The polls saying he did not do well lied.
That’s who we are!
You would have been a bargain at 5 mil, but I was glad to see the pricks blow 100 million.
LOL
Off base PR, he’s everywhere with or without debates.
His rallys bring in 20K or more per youtube viewing.
He’s on the network news and their instagrams/facebooks/twitter.
Try another tact, this one is full of holes.
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