Posted on Apr 13, 2021
Top Republicans Work To Rebrand GOP As Party Of Working Class
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A growing number of working-class voters were drawn to Donald Trump's Republican Party, and now top Republicans are searching for ways to keep those voters in the fold without Trump on the ballot.
"All of the statistics and polling coming out of the 2020 election show that Donald Trump did better with those voters across the board than any Republican has in my lifetime since Ronald Reagan," Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told NPR. "And if Republicans want to be successful as a party, win the majority in 2022, win back the White House in 2024, I think we have to learn lessons that Donald Trump taught us and how to appeal to these voters."
Since 2010, the most significant growth in the Republican coalition has been white voters without a college degree — an imperfect but widely used metric to quantify the working-class voting bloc — along with some marginal growth among similarly educated Black and Hispanic voters. Banks believes the only winning path forward for the GOP is to reimagine itself permanently as the party of working-class America.
"All of the statistics and polling coming out of the 2020 election show that Donald Trump did better with those voters across the board than any Republican has in my lifetime since Ronald Reagan," Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told NPR. "And if Republicans want to be successful as a party, win the majority in 2022, win back the White House in 2024, I think we have to learn lessons that Donald Trump taught us and how to appeal to these voters."
Since 2010, the most significant growth in the Republican coalition has been white voters without a college degree — an imperfect but widely used metric to quantify the working-class voting bloc — along with some marginal growth among similarly educated Black and Hispanic voters. Banks believes the only winning path forward for the GOP is to reimagine itself permanently as the party of working-class America.
Top Republicans Work To Rebrand GOP As Party Of Working Class
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SGT Charlie L. Not all are but the vast are and I'm not SFC James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4"
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SFC James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" yup everything good you were just miss tagged lol
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They need to become a party of ideas or they will lose many elections in the future.
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SGT Charlie Lee - Why do those two things have to be pitted against each other? Personally, when given the choice, I will vote for a moral individual with principle. Unfortunately those people are hard to fins in politics these days - especially at the national level.
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