Can Trump Sway the Biggest Block of Nonvoters?
Believe it or not, there are still a lot of white non-college-educated men who didn’t vote for him in 2016
Are there still new voters that President Trump’s campaign can turn out in 2020?
With his campaign in a downward spiral, thanks in part to his belligerent debate performance, Covid-19 diagnosis, and botched handling of the crisis, Trump’s chance of victory in just over two weeks will rest on how well he’s able to expand the electorate — something he was able to accomplish beyond Democrats’ wildest expectations in 2016.
In the last election, Trump juiced turnout among working-class whites in the Rust Belt. That provided him with just enough of the margin he needed to win a narrow Electoral College victory over Hillary Clinton. Exit polls had Trump winning both white women and white college-educated voters in 2016, however, Trump’s standing among white college-educated and white female voters has collapsed since then; he was losing both demographics by double digits in recent polling.
Having lost the support of these key blocks, who are the new voters that Trump can pull off the sidelines?
