{"id":1502168,"date":"2024-11-13T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1502168"},"modified":"2024-11-13T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T03:00:00","slug":"why-many-working-class-voters-shifted-rightward-this-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/why-many-working-class-voters-shifted-rightward-this-election\/1502168\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Many Working Class Voters Shifted Rightward This Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why Many Working Class Voters Shifted Rightward This Election<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Lawrence Wilson via The Epoch Times,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

President-elect Donald Trump won the 2024 election in part because working-class voters continued their migration toward the America First populism that Trump has advocated for the past three election cycles.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One indicator of that shift is the working-class city of Fall River, Massachusetts, which voted Republican for the first time in 100 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsider that from \u201996 through the last Obama election, Democrats got 70 to 75 percent of the vote in Fall River. That\u2019s an enormous swing,\u201d <\/strong>author and political commentator E.J. Dionne said at a Nov. 12 panel discussion hosted by the Brookings Institution.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that does speak to the decline of the Democratic vote among non-college whites and others without a college degree.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The shift is significant enough to be termed a global phenomenon, according to William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are witnessing the emergence of a new politics of class,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Galston said at the panel discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cClass, defined as educational attainment, dominates the scene in the United States and throughout the industrialized world.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

How America Voted<\/h2>\n

Here\u2019s how the class divide looked in 2024 and what it means for the future of both parties.<\/p>\n

Analysts commonly use education and income levels as indicators of working-class identity.<\/p>\n

Among those who never attended college, Trump won 63 percent of the vote,<\/strong> according to exit polling conducted by Edison Research for a consortium of news organizations.<\/p>\n

Among those having some college education but not earning a degree, the number was 51 percent.<\/p>\n

Trump did best among voters near the middle of the income scale.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Among those with an annual household income between $30,000 and $99,000, who accounted for nearly half of all voters, the majority voted for Trump.<\/p>\n

The median household income in 2023 was $80,610, according<\/a> to the U.S. Census Bureau.<\/p>\n

Harris did best with voters from the top and bottom of the income scale.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The vice president won 50 percent of the votes from households earning below $30,000 per year. The federal poverty<\/a> level for a family of four is $31,200 per year.<\/p>\n

Harris won 51 percent among households earning $200,000 annually.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Households earning more than double the U.S. median are considered upper-income, according<\/a> to Pew Research.<\/p>\n

While the majority of all women, 53 percent, voted for Harris, that trend did not hold for all working women, according to Galston.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhite working-class women voted a lot more like white working-class men than they did women with college degrees,\u201d Galston said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t even close.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Reckoning for Democrats<\/h2>\n

Democrats lost the White House because they ignored the needs of working-class voters, according to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).<\/p>\n

\u201cIt should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Sanders wrote<\/a> on Nov. 6.<\/p>\n

Jamie Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee, criticized Sanders\u2019s remarks, saying,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cBiden was the most pro-worker president of my lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others, including Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), agreed with Sanders that the Democratic Party had lost touch with the working class.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t listen enough; we tell people what\u2019s good for them,\u201d<\/strong> Murphy wrote<\/a>, adding that the party should listen to poor and rural people and men in crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cReal economic populism should be our tentpole.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe reason we didn\u2019t win, ultimately, is we didn\u2019t listen enough to people on the ground,\u201d Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said on \u201cFace the Nation\u201d on Nov. 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople like Chris Deluzio, Pat Ryan, who were saying, \u2018Talk about the economy, talk about people\u2019s economic struggles, convince people you have the better policies and better vision.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Economic factors were the driving force behind this migration into the Republican coalition for at least one portion of the working class, according to Gabriel Sanchez, a professor of political science at the University of New Mexico.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverwhelmingly, the economy is what Latino men have actually been talking about for three election cycles in a row,\u201d<\/strong><\/em> Sanchez said, noting that one in five Latino men work in the building industry.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s outreach to men in particular helped close the deal, according to Sanchez.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump and Vance were communicating a much different message [than Harris] \u2026 that men, you belong here. We appreciate you and everything you bring to the table,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

While Democrats spent much of their time campaigning against Trump\u2019s character, voters had other concerns, according to Dionne.<\/p>\n

\u201c[We thought] Trump\u2019s unpopularity and the danger he posed to the republic would move more voters than actually happened,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Dionne said. \u201cIt was a run-of-the-mill election because people were still deeply upset about the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Latino men, in particular, were willing to overlook Trump\u2019s drawbacks because they trusted him to fix the economy, Sanchez said.<\/p>\n

They told him, \u201cI believe Trump will prioritize the economy over everything else because he did that during COVID,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Republican Opportunity, Not a Guarantee<\/h2>\n

While working-class voters helped put Trump on top in this election, experts say that should not be taken as a guarantee of future loyalty.<\/p>\n

One reason is that the victory is not as decisive as it may appear.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s very important to underscore that when all the votes are counted, it could be a point or a point and a half victory in the popular vote,\u201d <\/strong><\/em>Dionne said.<\/p>\n

According to David Schultz, a professor of political science at Hamline University, the electoral victory hinged on a relatively small percentage of votes in swing states.<\/p>\n

\u201cA shift of 121,000 votes across Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin would have produced a different result with Harris winning,\u201d Schultz told The Epoch Times.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also, Harris won the majority of union voters at 53 percent, a slight decrease<\/a> from 2020 but an increase<\/a> from 2016 for her party.<\/p>\n

Although union members account<\/a> for just 10 percent of the workforce, they were heavily courted by both Trump and Harris.<\/p>\n

If Republicans can make good on their promise to improve the economy, their compact with the working class and with Latino voters in particular may go beyond one election, Sanchez said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 11\/13\/2024 – 17:00<\/span><\/p>\n

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