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Now we know: Trump’s racist appeals have backfired
Trumpism is dependent on racism. Hopefully, the entire rotten Trump/GOP edifice will come tumbling down on November 3rd.
8/14/20
In the new NPR-PBS NewsHour-Marist poll, he now trails Democrat Joe Biden 40 percent to 57 percent. In 2016, among all women, Trump lost 54 to 41 percent; that is now 59/35. Trump lost White female college graduates 44 to 51 percent; that is now 37 to 59 percent. White non-college-educated women went for Trump by a 61-to-34 percent margin in 2016; that lead is down to 52/43. Trump’s support from White men is also dropping. Among White men without college degrees, he has gone from 71/23 to 58/37; among White men with college degrees, Trump went from up 53/39 over Hillary Clinton to down 43/54 to Biden. And here is the shocker: His 20-point advantage among White voters (57/37) has disappeared (48/48). In short, college graduates have shifted overwhelmingly away from Trump (from a 10-point deficit to a 25-point deficit). Whatever appeal Trump is making to Whites by embracing the Confederacy and otherwise flaunting his white-supremacist views has backfired. Between his appeals to bigotry and his incompetent handling of the coronavirus, he has ceded college-educated voters to the Democrats, lost White male college graduates almost entirely and made his problem with female voters worse. He has not gotten a boost among less-educated Whites; to the contrary, he has lost support from these voters, too.
Aside from Trump’s continuing slide, the evidence of his negative impact on fellow Republicans is piling up. He is dragging the House down with him. Cook Political Report has shifted “ratings in 15 more districts, including 11 moves towards Democrats and four towards Republicans.” The Democrats are now favored to expand their lead. Now the Democrats are favored to win back the Senate. Both House and Senate Republicans may be damaged by Trump’s baseless attacks against voting by mail and his efforts to hobble the U.S. Postal Service. Whether intentional or not, Trump is sabotaging his own party. Rather than break with Trump, Republicans are like deer in the headlights, awaiting their fate. He’s convinced there is an electoral majority of voters out there — albeit one he must artificially devise by suppressing votes for Democrats — so consumed by white grievance that they are prepared to ignore his gross incompetence. The good news for America is that there are far fewer of those voters than necessary to return Trump to office, and millions of Americans (especially the college-educated) who are disgusted by Trump and his minions. This time, they won’t stay home or throw their votes away on a third-party candidate.
Trumpism is dependent on racism. Hopefully, the entire rotten Trump/GOP edifice will come tumbling down on November 3rd.