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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 12:28 PM Aug 2016

Trump’s path to victory depends on surge of white men

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump needs a surge of white working-class voters to beat Hillary Clinton in November. Clinton has significant leads over Trump among minority voters and women, and is handily defeating him with white college-educated women.

That puts pressure on Trump to win white men like no other candidate in recent history. Trump believes his anti-trade, anti-immigration message will be popular with white, working-class voters in Pennsylvania and Ohio, and that it could help him compete in other Rust Belt states such as Michigan and Wisconsin.

His electoral strategy revolves around winning Pennsylvania, something the Republican nominee hasn’t done since 1988. Michigan and Wisconsin have also been reliably Democratic states for decades.

Trump would seem to face tough prospects.

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http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/290395-trumps-path-to-victory-depends-on-surge-of-white-men

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Trump’s path to victory depends on surge of white men (Original Post) DonViejo Aug 2016 OP
IOW, the Republicans have become the White nationalist party Yavin4 Aug 2016 #1
Trump will NOT win PA. The voters there were smart enough to kick Corbett's ass out. Avalux Aug 2016 #2
Every 4 years MFM008 Aug 2016 #3
Ok, whose going to start a White Men for Hillary PAC? bluestateguy Aug 2016 #4

Yavin4

(35,443 posts)
1. IOW, the Republicans have become the White nationalist party
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 12:35 PM
Aug 2016

That's not the position they want in a country that's growing more diverse every day.

Avalux

(35,015 posts)
2. Trump will NOT win PA. The voters there were smart enough to kick Corbett's ass out.
Thu Aug 4, 2016, 12:41 PM
Aug 2016

If his strategy revolves around winning my home state, he's a fool as well as an asshole and he'll lose.

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