{"id":12608,"date":"2020-09-10T06:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=12608"},"modified":"2020-09-08T22:58:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T05:58:50","slug":"trump-race-and-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/trump-race-and-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, Race, and Class"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There&nbsp;are some stunning indications that the supposedly satanic racist Donald Trump could be polling in some surveys around a 35-40 approval rate among Latinos and 20\u201330 percent among African Americans. Other polls are more equivocal but suggest an unexpected Trump surge among minority voters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If those polls are accurate and predict November voting patterns, then Joe Biden could lose the popular vote as well as the key swing states by larger margins than Hillary Clinton\u2019s Electoral College losses in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, some state polls by CNN and Trafalgar already show Trump to be near even in these purple states. The polling also suggests that, contrary to stereotypical exegeses, nonwhites of the large cities in the Midwest are not necessarily a monolithic voting bloc. So how can this be \u2014 given the Obama verdict that Trump is our generation\u2019s Bull Connor, and the Never Trump assurances that the divisive Trump lacks the empathy and appeal of a \u201ccoalition building\u201d John McCain or a BLM-sympathizer such as a marching Mitt Romney, and lacks as well the natural resonance the Bush family enjoys with Hispanics?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A number of things are going on that may explain some of these apparent mysteries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2020\/09\/trump-race-and-class\/\">Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review There&nbsp;are some stunning indications that the supposedly satanic racist Donald Trump could be polling in some surveys around a 35-40 approval rate among Latinos and 20\u201330 percent among African Americans. Other polls are more equivocal but suggest an unexpected Trump surge among minority voters. If those polls are accurate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3hm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9390,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ten-reasons-why-trump-could-win\/","url_meta":{"origin":12608,"position":0},"title":"Ten Reasons Why Trump Could Win","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"With four more months until Election Day, be prepared for chills and spills. 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