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Democrats Being Party of the Rich Could Cost Them 2024 Election
Newsweek ^ | June 14, 2023 | Nick Reynolds

Posted on 06/15/2023 3:23:18 AM PDT by DoodleBob

…Demographic data compiled in the 2016 and 2020 elections showed that the top 40 percent of income earners preferred the Democratic candidate for president (Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden) over the Republican (Donald Trump), signifying a sizable coalition shift from where the party was in the previous decade.

Recent data shows the trend is likely baked in. In a CNBC survey, America's millionaires said they are more likely to support Biden over Trump in the upcoming presidential election by double-digit margins. And most of the nation's voters are not wealthy.

In the 2016 election, approximately 60 percent of white working-class voters voted for Trump, according to a Vanderbilt University study. Four years later, demographic data showed Trump's vote share in lower-income counties across the U.S. increased by several points, while Biden ran up the tally in higher-educated (and more affluent) urban and suburban counties.

Other data shows the working class squarely in conservatives' domain as well. Republicans represent 64 percent of congressional districts with median incomes below the national median, while nine of the 10 wealthiest congressional districts are represented by Democrats, according to data compiled by Democratic Ohio Representative Marcy Kaptur's office. To some degree, Fowler said, the trend is likely explainable in both parties' rhetoric: Democrats used to embrace the working class until they didn't.

Republican thought leaders, meanwhile, have seized on the opportunity.

Recent columns published by conservative outlets like The National Review have called for an end to government subsidies for corporations long-considered engines for economic development. Conservative pollsters like Rasmussen have also found an increasing affinity for ending "corporate welfare" among Republican voters across the country.

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: potus2024; therich
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To: central_va
Sorry

I accept your apology.

21 posted on 06/15/2023 4:50:04 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Wallace T.

Maybe Hispanics will turn out to be a huge exploding cigar for the Democrats. I’m not banking on it but it seems like a distinct possibility.


22 posted on 06/15/2023 4:51:55 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: Sirius Lee

Name one pre Trump GOP sponsored policy that specifically targeted the working class ( wage earners) that actually helped them or did something that would increase wages of the working class?


23 posted on 06/15/2023 4:53:09 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
Name one pre Trump GOP sponsored policy that specifically targeted the working class ( wage earners) that actually helped them or did something that would increase wages of the working class?

Enjoy! https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/584190-irs-data-prove-trump-tax-cuts-benefited-middle-working-class-americans-most/

I'm going outside to play zzzzing zzzzzzzing on the jet skis now. Have a nice day!

24 posted on 06/15/2023 4:57:33 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: DoodleBob
Well, speaking of the party of the rich...

U.S. officials block release of Prince Harry's U.S. visa files but conservative think-tank threatens to sue and blasts 'zero transparency Biden administration'

Wanna bet what thus us really about, what's being coveted up, is that Harry is here on the type of visa that allows the Harkles to get outta paying US income taxes?

None of the reporting EVER mentions the tax angle.

And if our Deep State is covering up the fact that the IRS's boot isn't on the Harkles' throats...

Someone should just the Harkles to confirm or deny: Is Harry here on a visa that allows them to dodge income taxes?

Silence coming from them, as it does our Deep State, would speak volumes.

25 posted on 06/15/2023 5:00:58 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: DoodleBob

“And most of the nation’s voters are not wealthy.”

Directly because of Socialist Democrats and their Liberty, Economic and Soul-crushing agendas!

My Fellow Americans - get a freakin’ CLUE!


26 posted on 06/15/2023 5:01:51 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Sirius Lee

Tax cuts were across the board. I am talking about specific policy that GOP sponsored pre Trump the was for the benefit the workiing class ( wage earners ). I can name dozens that hurt the working class.


27 posted on 06/15/2023 5:02:36 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Most small businesses and farms do no such thing. Medium and large corporations often do, but most small businesses have the owner doing much of the work and barely getting by in many cases.

You often seem agitated by issues of employment and interest rates. Sorry for whatever caused that.


28 posted on 06/15/2023 5:07:00 AM PDT by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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To: DoodleBob

Democrats can’t exist without the rich to help them steal elections cover up their crimes.


29 posted on 06/15/2023 5:23:17 AM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: central_va

That is the Bush, Cheney, Paul Ryan Republican party.


30 posted on 06/15/2023 5:45:29 AM PDT by CMailBag
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To: DoodleBob

The party of crooks and liars more fitting.


31 posted on 06/15/2023 5:55:03 AM PDT by FES0844
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To: central_va

Most businesses registered in the U.S. are sole proprietorships with no employees.


32 posted on 06/15/2023 5:59:56 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: DoodleBob

“Democrats Being Party of the Rich Could Cost Them 2024 Election”

I’m sure after wining the 2020 election via fraud they haven’t expanded their plans for the 2024 election.


33 posted on 06/15/2023 6:01:24 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (AS )
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To: DoodleBob

Uh, if it weren’t for the rich people, the Democrats wouldn’t be able to afford the costs of stealing an election . . .


34 posted on 06/15/2023 6:07:15 AM PDT by MCSETots (at)
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To: Codeflier
The GOP is the anti labor party. Fact.

The working class , in which include myself, have been for years voting for the GOP and against their self interest only because the alternative Dems are basically left wing fascist.

35 posted on 06/15/2023 6:34:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va
“Which leave the GOP in a quandary. The GOPe hates the working class and their rich donor class is going over to the Demo-fascist. What's a party to do?”

Republicans should advocate raising taxes on them. The more elite Democrats stop them the more the rest of Democrat voters will see the phonies they are. For the last generation we have lowered taxes on the wealthy and accomplished nothing else. And now that they have their lower taxes they vote Democrat. Does that explain why we never accomplished conservative agendas that did not benefit them?

36 posted on 06/15/2023 7:06:40 AM PDT by amnestynone (We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
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To: BlackbirdSST

BTTT


37 posted on 06/15/2023 7:20:48 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: DoodleBob
America's millionaires said they are more likely to support Biden over Trump

Biden won't be their candidate, they can't allow him to run.

38 posted on 06/15/2023 7:22:44 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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