CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten pointed out Monday how former President Donald Trump has taken strong actions against “working-class voters.”
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Sept. 18 released internal polling data showing nearly 60% of the workers it represents strongly support Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris. Hours later, he declined to endorse a 2024 presidential candidate. Enten said on CNN News Central that Trump has gained significant support among groups he calls “working class voters.” (Related: New report reveals powerful labor union suddenly courting Republicans, spending millions of dollars defending liberals)
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“Every now and then there's a data point that jumps off the screen and should set off a siren. Okay, this is a union household, this is Democratic approval ratings in presidential elections. That's not what it used to be. Back in 1992. , Bill Clinton won the union vote by 30 points, whereas Hillary Clinton only won by 12 points in 2016,” Enten told host Sarah Sydner. “This was the worst performance by a Democrat since Mondale v. Reagan in 1984.”
“But look at where Kamala Harris is today. She's only leading by nine points,” he continued. “This would be the worst Democratic performance in a generation, 10 points short of Joe Biden's standard. Of course it was the kind of union Joes who won four years ago. We won by 19 points.”
Mr. Enten then discussed “workers who use their hands'' and clarified that they are a different group from labor union members.
“Look at this white space. What does this say to me about the state of politics in the early 1990s and now? “Bill Clinton had a 7-point lead over George H.W. Bush. Look at Donald Trump's 31-point lead over Kamala Harris today,” he said. . “When I think of the working class, I think of people who use their hands.”
“And we know that Donald Trump is going after that vote. He's in a very strong position, probably more than any other bloc – more than the people who go to trade schools and trade schools. “The data reporter continued. “It has gone from being a core group of the Democratic Party to now a core group of huge support for Donald Trump among the working class.”
Trump also received better approval ratings from black and Hispanic voters than in past elections. Enten particularly focused on “people of color'' who were “non-university graduates.''
“Go back four years ago, look, Joe Biden won that group by 45 points. Look at Kamala Harris' support status today. She's still within that group. “We are in the lead, but that lead has decreased by 17 points to just 28 points,” he said. “And I want to note that the gap among voters of color who actually graduated from college has only changed by 5 points from four years ago. He's doing well because he's really going in and winning over a lot of voters that he didn't have before, among voters who didn't graduate from college.”
“And this is part of a larger trend that we're seeing across politics, Sarah, that the Republican Party, and Donald Trump in particular, is increasing its popularity among working-class voters, whether they were unionized or not, whether they were in a union, whether they were in a trade school.” They're doing very well whether they went to school or not,' or whether they're voters of color,'' Enten added. “The fact is that Donald Trump appears to have penetrated traditional Democratic hotbeds and made many moves in ways that many never imagined when he first came off the escalator in 2015. ”
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