CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten on Monday noted how strongly former President Donald Trump is performing with “working class voters.”
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters on Sept. 18 declined to endorse a 2024 presidential candidate just hours after releasing internal polling data indicating that nearly 60% of the workers it represents strongly favor Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris. Enten, on CNN News Central, said Trump is making significant gains with multiple groups of what he referred to as “working-class voters.”
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“Sometimes there are data points that just jump off off the screen, should set off sirens. Alright, this is union households, this is Democratic margin in presidential election. It ain’t what it used to be. You know, you go back to 1992, Bill Clinton won that union vote by 30 points, Hillary Clinton only won it by 12 points back in 2016,” Enten told host Sara Sidner. “That was the lowest mark for a Democrat since 1984, Mondale versus Reagan.”
“But look at where Kamala Harris is today. She’s only leading by nine points,” he continued. “That would be the worst Democratic performance in a generation, 10 points off the mark of Joe Biden, who of course won four years ago, was sort of that union guy, union Joe, right? Won it by 19 points.”
Enten then discussed workers “who use their hands,” which he clarified is a different demographic from union workers.
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“Look at this margin. This to me, oh boy, does this tell you about the state of our politics now versus back in the early 1990’s. Margin among vocational and trade school grads in pre-election polling. Bill Clinton was leading that vote over George H.W. Bush by seven points. Look at where Donald Trump is today over Kamala Harris, a 31 point advantage,” he said. “When I think people think of the working class, they think of people who use their hands.”
“And we know that Donald Trump has been going after that vote, and he is in a very, very strong position, more so perhaps than any other bloc, the folks who go to trade school, vocational school,” the data reporter continued. “That has moved from being a core Democratic group to now being a core group of Donald Trump’s massive amount of support among the working class.”
Trump has also been polling better with black and Hispanic voters than he has in previous elections. Enten specifically turned his attention to “voters of color” who are “non-college graduates.”
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“You go back four years ago, look at that, Joe Biden won that group by 45 points. Look at where Kamala Harris’ support is today. She’s still leading amongst that group, but that lead is down 17 points to just 28 points,” he said. “And I will note that the margin among voters of color who actually graduate college has only been changed by five points … compared to four years ago. The reason Donald Trump is doing so well amongst voters of color is because he has really gone in and grabbed a lot of voters that he didn’t previously have among those who didn’t graduate college.”
“And this is part of a larger trend that we’re seeing throughout our politics, Sara, in which Republicans, specifically Donald Trump is doing very, very well among working class voters, whether they were in unions, whether they went to trade school or whether they’re voters of color,” Enten added. “The fact is Donald Trump seems to have gone into a hotbed of traditional Democratic support and made a lot of movement in ways I don’t think a lot of people would have thought when he went down that escalator just back in 2015.”
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