Remarkable: In Virginia and New Jersey, Spanberger and Sherrill erased the GOP edge among working class. Per exit polls, each got 50% of noncollege voters, big gains over previous contests. Anti-Trump politics appeals to working class, too! New piece: https://newrepublic.com/articl...
An absurd media trope in runup to the election said Dems must choose between being "anti-Trump" and running on substance. Lesson from this elex is that anti-Trump politics *is* affordability politics, and affordability politics *is* anti-Trump politics: https://newrepublic.com/articl...
The results decisively refute need for false choice between "anti-Trump" and affordability. In exit polls, Spanberger and Sherrill both got 50% of noncollege voters, and both got *huge* majorities of nonwhite noncollege voters. Reverses Trump gains bigly: https://newrepublic.com/articl...
“This firewall in the punditry between Trump and economic messaging—that is not how working-class voters thought about these issues,” Dem strategist tells me. I looked at Spanberger/Sherrill ads. Shockingly, they attacked Trump AND talked about economy: https://newrepublic.com/articl...
Zohran's campaign was all about costs and affordability. But he ALSO went hard at Trump's lawlessness. He attacked economic AND authoritarian power. He ran the most pro-immigrant, pro-cosmopolitan campaign in memory. That complemented affordability issue! https://newrepublic.com/articl...
The media sneering about "anti-Trump" politics reflects a deeper inability to acknowledge that he's really unpopular. To some journos, "anti-Trump" codes as "delusional Resistance doesn't grasp Trump's mystical connection with the Real American People." https://newrepublic.com/articl...
