How Trump Is Losing His Base

[kpete]

Focus groups with working-class and rural voters show the deep health care crisis in America, and trouble for Trump’s re-election.

These are mostly low-wage families, many with children raised by a single parent. They are consumed with rising opioid deaths and disabilities and a deadly expensive health care system. That was a big part of why they voted for Donald Trump in 2016: so he could end Obamacare and its costly mandate, and deliver affordable health insurance for all. When he failed to do so, many voted against the Republicans in the midterms.

But the pandemic was the perfect storm. I have never seen such a poignant discussion of the health and disability problems facing families and their children, the risks they faced at work, and the prospect of even higher health care and prescription drug costs. The final straw was a president who battled not for the “forgotten Americans,” but for himself, the top one percent, and the biggest, greediest companies.

That is why most in the Zoom focus groups pulled back from President Trump. Three-quarters of these voters supported Trump in 2016, but less than half planned to vote for him now.

https://prospect.org/politics/the-perfect-storm-working-class-voters-2020/

[CaptYossarian]

1. Now we know who the suckers and losers really are.

Have they also heard about his SS/Medicare/Medicaid plans?

[dawg day]

2. Obamacare And its costly mandate?

What cost? You paid a mandate if you hadn't sensibly taken the subsidized health insurance or the expanded Medicaid.
It might be understandable for some overworked single parent in Kentucky not to understand that, but the reporter should not have repeated a Trump lie.

[lagomorph777]

4. +1 Sick of "reporters" taking BS at face value.

[LizBeth]

3. If they were single, low income then the HC would not have been unaffordable. I am on ACA

and at silver I was 148 a month. I dropped to bronze this year and pay 1.11