One of the more interesting things about the Trump/Vance blowout in the election just concluded isn’t the near-landslide of 312 electoral votes that Donald Trump and JD Vance racked up. It’s not even the near-five million vote advantage in the total vote count. It’s not even the Trump campaign’s brilliant use of the new media, not least of which was the President-elect and Vice President-elects’ three-hours-each unscripted, unedited sessions with Joe Rogan. (Rumor has it that Barron Trump was the mastermind behind this new media strategy, and if that’s true, the young man has a future ahead of him as a campaign consultant.)
The really big news is the political realignment of some key demographics – some of which were formerly Democratic mainstays.
NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki has the numbers. Here, watch:
PRE-TRUMP vs. NOW:
— Voters under 30: 12-point shift
— Voters w/ incomes <$50K: 25-point shift
— Voters w/o college degrees: 18-point shift
— Black voters: 15-point shift
— Hispanic voters: 38-point shift
— Asian voters: 32-point shift pic.twitter.com/crlECm5nsb
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) November 10, 2024
(It’s) not just Donald Trump winning the election but winning the popular vote. First time in two decades for a Republican, and how did he do it? He did it by transforming the Republican Party. It is now more diverse than it’s ever been in modern times and certainly more so than when Donald Trump first came on the scene eight years ago.
Some key shifts include:
Voters under 30: Before Trump, Democrats had a 23-point lead in this demo – and Trump cut it to 11.
Voters with an income under $50,000: Before Trump, Democrats had a 22-point lead; Trump blew that up into a three-point lead for the GOP.
Voters with no college degree: Before Trump, they voted Dem by four points; Trump exploded that demographic to a 14-point lead for the GOP.
Black voters: Before Trump, they voted Dem by a whopping 87 points. Trump cut that to 72.
Hispanic/Latino voters: Before Trump, they voted Dem by a 44-point lead. Trump slashed that to six.
Asian voters: Before Trump, they voted Dem by a 47-point lead. Trump cut that to 15.
Democrats, especially the tattered remnants of the Harris/Walz campaign, are probably still scratching their heads and wondering why. While, personally, I’m hoping they never catch on, there are some pretty obvious reasons for anyone with eyes to see.
First: The Democrats have gone all-in for the loony left. They have ditched people like Joe Manchin for AOC and The Squad, who don’t have five IQ points to rub together among them. They literally drove the last few sensible people out of their party – people like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Hawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, both of whom will have roles in the new Trump administration. Oh, the Dems siphoned off a couple of squishy establishment Republicans, like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, and you know, I’ll make that trade any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Second: The Democrats have abandoned regular, working Americans. The Democratic Party now consists largely of coastal elites and ivory-tower academics, who don’t see $5.00 a gallon gasoline and skyrocketing grocery prices as a problem because their incomes are generous enough that they aren’t affected much, and besides, they reckon that most of up peasants are driving around too much anyway. They don’t see a problem with boys smashing volleyballs into our daughter’s faces or sharing their showers and locker rooms, and they don’t understand why people are peevish about all the tax-payer funded handouts to people who are in the country illegally.
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Unless the Democrats figure this out – unless they start once more looking at what the majority of the electorate is concerned about – these demographic shifts are only going to continue.
Frankly, I’m hoping they never catch on.
