'It's a big, big swing': Trump loses ground with white voters

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‘It’s a big, big swing’: Trump loses ground with white voters


https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/21/trump-white-voters-support-418420

The president is running well behind his 2016 pace with the demographic that sent him to the White House.
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White voters have not proved immune to the damage inflicted on President Donald Trump by the coronavirus and its resulting economic wreckage, which have been a drag on his reelection campaign since spring. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo

By DAVID SIDERS 09/21/2020 04:30 AM EDT


Donald Trump is making modest inroads with Latinos. Polls suggest he’s pulling slightly more Black support than in 2016.

But Trump is tilting at the margins with those groups. His bigger problem is the demographic that sent him to the White House — white voters, whose embrace of Trump appears to be slipping in critical, predominantly white swing states.



In Minnesota, where the contest between Trump and Joe Biden had seemed to tighten in recent weeks — and where both candidates stumped on Friday — a CBS News/YouGov survey last week had Trump running 2 percentage points behind Biden with white voters, after carrying them by 7 points in 2016. Even among white voters without college degrees — Trump’s base — the president was far short of the margin he put up against Hillary Clinton there.

It’s the same story in Wisconsin, where Trump won non-college educated white women by 16 percentage points four years ago but is now losing them by 9 percentage points, according to an ABC News/Washington Post poll. In Pennsylvania, Biden has now pulled even with Trump among white voters, according to an NBC News/Marist Poll...................................

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1. It's about damn time.

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2. these are guys that don't move until

it hits them in the wallet.

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3. Rt.. TY!

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4. So much for all those "good genes...."

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5. Yes. I tend to believe that grandma and grandpa realizing that they won't be alive next

April if Trump wins has an impact on their thinking.

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6. Blue Senate majority in sight!