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Juan Williams: Trump's base begins to crack
thehill ^ | 07/06/20 | JUAN WILLIAMS

Posted on 07/07/2020 4:54:36 PM PDT by MarvinStinson

Here is a checklist for fans of the “greatest of all presidents.”

Where’s the wall — and is Mexico paying for it?

Where’s the fabulous plan to replace ObamaCare?

Where’s the deal with North Korea to end their nuclear threat?

Where’s the racial healing in retweeting a supporter shouting “white power”?

Oh, didn’t he tell you in February the virus was going to magically disappear and then repeat it to you last week after more than 125,000 Americans died from it?

Now that’s a record of failure.

And here is one more question on empty promises for Trump’s biggest fans, white evangelicals:

Has Trump delivered for you after the Supreme Court’s recent rulings in support of gay rights and abortion rights?

Trump’s standing with evangelicals started fraying before the court’s decisions.

First, the failure to protect the country from the virus hurt him, especially with seniors.

Then evangelicals of all ages saw a lack of Christian empathy in his attacks on people standing together, across racial lines, to protest police brutality. “We’re one race and we need to love each other,” said Pat Robertson, a major evangelical leader.

To shore up his base, Trump is now resorting to open appeals to white racial grievance.

He has retweeted videos of black and white people fighting. Last week, he retweeted a video of a white St. Louis couple holding guns to threaten people marching for racial justice.

Putting fear into his white base — to get them back in line — can be seen in his damning comments on protestors. They are all “thugs,” and “hoodlums,” even as the instances of rioting are few amid overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations.

Similarly, Trump’s strategy includes demonizing people pulling down statues of Confederate generals. He says they are “terrorists.” He refuses to admit the damage done by ever-present symbols of white supremacy, including the Confederate flag.

So, exactly which white people are the audience for Trump’s acid politics?

Trump won 57 percent of the white vote in 2016. One-third of that support came from white evangelicals. Another 20 percent of Trump’s 2016 base of support came from white Catholics, according to a Pew Research Center analysis.

That means white evangelicals and white Catholics made up half of the people who voted for Trump in 2016.

But now several polls showing Trump losing to Democrat Joe Biden by a substantial margin. The decline is due to sliding support from white evangelicals and white Catholics.

“In March, nearly 80 percent of white evangelicals said they approved of the job Mr. Trump was doing, [according to polling by PRRI],” the New York Times reported in early June.

“But by the end of May, with the country convulsed by racial discord, Mr. Trump’s favorability among white evangelicals had fallen 15 percentage points to 62 percent, according to a PRRI poll,” according to the Times story, by Jeremy W. Peters. The article noted that Trump’s white Catholic support is down 27 points since March.

David Brody, the chief political analyst for the Christian Broadcasting Network, recently told Politico that “any slippage” of Trump’s support among evangelical voters would doom him to defeat in November.

Trump is potentially losing those few percentage points of evangelical support in a nation showing increasing support for the Black Lives Matter movement but also dealing, as Brody put it, with “everything from the coronavirus to George Floyd and Trump calling himself the ‘law and order president.’"

If evangelicals are the target of Trump’s racial grievance strategy, the bull’s-eye on that target are white people without a college degree.

Since the end of May, Trump has lost 15 percentage points of support among whites without a college degree, according to an average of polls by The Washington Post.

He had a 37-percentage point lead among those voters over Hillary Clinton in 2016. It is now down to a 22-point lead over Biden.

There is deadly political consequence for Trump’s reelection bid in those numbers.

The loss of those voters is a big reason behind a June New York Times poll showing Trump and Biden basically tied among white voters.

The RealClearPolitics average of polls shows Biden currently leading Trump in six states Trump won in 2016: Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona and North Carolina.

With four months to go before Election Day, all Trump can do now is ask his evangelical supporters to overlook his failures in exchange for more promises, especially continuing to pack the federal courts with conservative judges who are hostile to abortion rights and gay rights.

He thinks that promise will be enough to motivate evangelicals and Catholics to turn out for him.

“You won’t have religious liberty — you won’t have anything,” if Biden wins in November, Trump predicted in a recent interview with his former press secretary Sean Spicer, after highlighting his appointment of “two Supreme Court justices.”

If a few evangelicals decide a few more judges aren’t worth sacrificing their most cherished principles of Christian love and morality, they may end up voting for a white Catholic.

His name is Joe Biden.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
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To: rovenstinez

My remote has a ‘nojuan’ button.


61 posted on 07/07/2020 5:28:46 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: MarvinStinson

If according to the polls Biden is a shoo-in why are you guys so dead bent on running him down? Your real polls don’t say that do they?


62 posted on 07/07/2020 5:31:12 PM PDT by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: MarvinStinson

If there are issues concerning Trump’s base Juan has managed to identify NONE of them.


63 posted on 07/07/2020 5:32:55 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Thunder Struck!


64 posted on 07/07/2020 5:35:03 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: MarvinStinson

Here is a long checklist for every time that Juan Williams has lied or has been wrong:


65 posted on 07/07/2020 5:35:28 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: MarvinStinson

Biden has probably mentioned that there was a recent time when Juan would be bringing him his coffee/gin.


66 posted on 07/07/2020 5:37:37 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: MarvinStinson
“First, the failure to protect the country from the virus hurt him, especially with seniors.”

LOL

Cuomo purposefully puts WuhanFlu infected patients into assisted living places and senior living homes, thereby, murdering tens of thousands and Jose the moron blames Trump?

67 posted on 07/07/2020 5:37:43 PM PDT by Chgogal (ALL lives matter. If you disagree with me, YOU are the racist.)
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To: MarvinStinson

In my best Dan Ackroyd/Brit Hume voice

“Juan, you ignorant slut”


68 posted on 07/07/2020 5:38:54 PM PDT by digger48
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To: MarvinStinson
Juan Williams: Trump's base begins to crack

Not this supporter. I see President Trump working to bring back Americans manufacturing and rebuild our cities

OTOH, I see the democrats obstructing him every step of the way.

Withholding aid meant to help Puerto Ricans after Hurricane Maria?

Keeping masks in storage in NY while complaining the feds aren't sending enough masks and forcing nursing homes to take in COVID-19 patients even though they had several other options available?

Impeaching him over something that didn't even happen while a pandemic was starting?

Allowing murders to skyrocket in the cities they run while accusing their opponents of racism?

The democrats don't care how many of their own supporters die as a result of their actions as long as they think they can use them to make President Trump look bad.

And Juan Williams thinks I'm going to vote for them?

69 posted on 07/07/2020 5:39:51 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: MarvinStinson

I don’t consider Juan as any kind of threat to Trump. I don’t consider him hardly at all.


70 posted on 07/07/2020 5:43:31 PM PDT by Leep (We can go to the grocery store but we can't go to work?)
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To: MarvinStinson

Just Juan reason I don’t watch much Fox anymore.


71 posted on 07/07/2020 5:43:55 PM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: MarvinStinson

If a few evangelicals decide a few more judges aren’t worth sacrificing their most cherished principles of Christian love and morality, they may end up voting for a white Catholic.

Juan is the moral accountant?

Very verbose for a losing argument


72 posted on 07/07/2020 5:44:09 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: euram

He’s an idiot! I love The Five in spite of this moron.


73 posted on 07/07/2020 5:45:16 PM PDT by Wm F Buckley Republican
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To: Vendome

Calling Joe Biden a Catholic at this point is a slur on all Catholics.

Who knew Juan William’s was a religious bigot?


74 posted on 07/07/2020 5:47:35 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: MarvinStinson

even as the instances of rioting are few amid overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations.

That’s bullshit Juan Hole.

Obviously you don’t get out much

Here in Liberal San Francisco Bay Area city after city has various districts and shopping centers destroyed

That happened nationwide as well.

Krack pot


75 posted on 07/07/2020 5:47:43 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: MarvinStinson

Did Jesus, Grant, Lincoln, and Washington fight for the south? I swear you never trumpers are the most embarrassing people on the planet


76 posted on 07/07/2020 5:48:18 PM PDT by Lod881019
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To: MarvinStinson
even as the instances of rioting are few amid overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrations.

If all whites are to blame for all racism throughout the history of the US, why are not all "mostly peaceful demonstrators" to blame for all the violence and damage done during riots, or all blacks at fault for all violence (against blacks and whites) done by violent black criminals?

Just asking for a friend.

77 posted on 07/07/2020 5:49:27 PM PDT by Turbo Pig (To close with and destroy....)
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To: hsmomx3

Juan has job security at Fox because no women would get near him.


78 posted on 07/07/2020 5:49:34 PM PDT by cnsmom
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To: MarvinStinson
Is this in code? I think the demonicrats are the ones on crack. Two words jumped out at me “white power”. Shouldn't that be white powder. That may be what the author is on.
79 posted on 07/07/2020 5:50:22 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: MarvinStinson

I’m trying to remember when Juan Williams was right about something. I can’t.


80 posted on 07/07/2020 5:51:48 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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