The New York Times polls show that the multiracial populist GOP has arrived
(And the book about this hits bookstores in two days.)
Not only are these a brutal set of topline numbers for the president, but they show the Democratic coalition completely falling apart. Hispanic voters in the battlegrounds are within single digits. Trump gets 22 percent of the Black vote.
The driving force? The economy.
From the writeup: “Another ominous sign for Democrats is that voters across all income levels felt that Mr. Biden’s policies had hurt them personally, while they credited Mr. Trump’s policies for helping them. The results were mirror opposites: Voters gave Mr. Trump a 17-point advantage for having helped them and Mr. Biden a 18-point disadvantage for having hurt them.”
Voters trust Trump 59 to 37 percent over Biden on the economy.
Twice as many voters say economic issues rather than social issues will decide their vote, and Trump leads those voters 60 to 32 percent.
If this is not a bright red warning sign for Democrats that Republicans have swiped a critical mass of nonwhite working class voters from under their fe…
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