For cultural and economic reasons the blue-collar vote is lining up with Trump.
The trend for the past decade has been that the working-class, blue-collar voter goes R. This still sits oddly with many, especially old-time Dems, but it has held sway the past two or three presidential elections.
Donald Trump made it happen in 2016, cobbling together a working-class voter coalition with his energy and man-of-the-people vibe that carried him to narrow victory across the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin and put him into the White House. It brought him to within a sliver of victory in 2020, as he succumbed to Joe Biden by the slimmest of margins in those same states and lost the electoral college vote.
