Is This the End of the White Working-Class Democrat? Democrats hoped to lose by less in blue-collar areas that had drifted toward Donald Trump. In many places, they may have lost by more.

By Free Republic | Created at 2024-11-18 14:29:17 | Updated at 2024-11-18 16:28:45 2 hours ago

Is This the End of the White Working-Class Democrat? Democrats hoped to lose by less in blue-collar areas that had drifted toward Donald Trump. In many places, they may have lost by more.
New York Times ^ | Nov. 18, 2024, | atie Glueck

Posted on 11/18/2024 6:24:57 AM PST by Cronos

In Ohio, Senator Sherrod Brown, a longtime champion of working-class voters, was toppled by a rich Republican former car dealer.

In Washington, President Biden must now hand back power to Republicans and surrender leadership of a party increasingly dominated by highly educated voters.

And in Pennsylvania, Senator Bob Casey, whose family name has for years been synonymous with white working-class Democrats, is confronting the real possibility of defeat.

Eight years after fury among white working-class voters propelled Donald J. Trump to victory, Democrats swore that this time, they would try to do better with that group.

Instead, the party’s staggering challenges with blue-collar voters have only worsened. Widespread frustration with high prices and alienation from Democrats have turned the party’s lawmakers in Trump territory into an ever-more-endangered species.

“When the change doesn’t show up, the hope for change turns into anger,” said Representative Matt Cartwright, a battle-tested Pennsylvania Democrat from the Scranton area who narrowly lost this month. “The anger showed up.”

The new inroads Mr. Trump made this year with working-class voters of color, particularly Latino ones, have alarmed Democrats. At the same time, the party’s Trump-era Achilles’ heel — its struggle to earn the trust of white working-class voters — was even starker this year, especially in the Industrial Midwest, where the “blue wall” states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all broke for Mr. Trump.

...she and other Democrats also faced a deepening, newly worrisome perception problem: a widespread belief among working-class Americans that the Democratic Party does not fully grasp their struggles — and in some cases, disdains them outright.

...But one of the biggest problems, these Democrats say, is that voters in white working-class neighborhoods now see the party as unresponsive to their most pressing daily troubles.

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
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“‘Pro-labor, pro-life, pro gun’ — that was a big part of the Democratic Party in Pennsylvania,” said Mr. Dent, who supported Ms. Harris this year. “It seems that that population has migrated solidly into the Republican camp.”

1 posted on 11/18/2024 6:24:57 AM PST by Cronos

To: Cronos

Presidential results

Congressional results

2 posted on 11/18/2024 6:26:52 AM PST by Cronos

To: Cronos

Smug lefties say its because working-class whites are less educated.

It’s because they’ve been screwing the working class, and we’re not going to take it.

3 posted on 11/18/2024 6:27:45 AM PST by Fido969

To: Cronos

“Casey,confronting the possibility of defeat”

He was defeated. He just won’t concede and is openly trying to steal back what he lost.

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