{"id":1840241,"date":"2023-02-08T16:19:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840241"},"modified":"2023-02-08T16:20:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T21:20:22","slug":"bidens-speech-made-it-clear-hes-trying-to-win-back-the-forgotten-white-working-class-voter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-speech-made-it-clear-hes-trying-to-win-back-the-forgotten-white-working-class-voter\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Speech Made It Clear, He\u2019s Trying To Win Back The \u2018Forgotten\u2019 White Working-Class Voter"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-speech-made-it-clear-hes-trying-to-win-back-the-forgotten-white-working-class-voter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840241&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a>Despite his skill, he knows something that Hillary Clinton, twice-failed presidential candidate, never understood: The crucial role of the white working class vote in winning a seat in the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday night, the president made it known during his State of the Union address that he intends to win back non-college-educated white voters who have either stayed on the sidelines or flipped their support to the GOP thanks to former President Donald J. Trump\u2019s 2016 run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy economic plan is about investing in places and people that have been forgotten,\u201d Biden stated this in D.C., during the SOTU. \u201cAmid the economic upheaval of the past four decades, too many people have been left behind or treated like they\u2019re invisible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was clearly speaking to the voters of largely white, rustbelt states, who have seen their jobs shipped overseas by the thousands since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time in recent weeks that Biden has referenced such voters. Biden addressed the Democratic National Committee winter meeting. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2023\/02\/03\/president-biden-at-a-democratic-national-committee-winter-meeting-reception\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lamentable<\/a>, \u201cThose of you who were over 40, did you ever think we\u2019d be in a situation where blue-collar workers would vote Republican?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president continued. \u201cBecause they think we forgot them. They think we don\u2019t care. They\u2019re coming back, but they \u2014 that\u2019s what they thought. When those jobs left, a lot were left out and left behind. A lot of them came to believe we stopped paying attention to working-class the way we used to. A lot of them came to believe that the Democratic Party stopped caring about them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Biden is correct that the demographic feels forgotten by the Democratic Party \u2014 and for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>They were told by President Barack Obama that there was no such thing. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/blog-briefing-room\/news\/281936-obama-to-trump-what-magic-wand-do-you-have\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">magic wand<\/a>\u201d This would help to bring back manufacturing jobs. The Democratic Party\u2019s 2016 candidate didn\u2019t even listen to her own husband\u2019s warning that she needed to focus more on white, working-class voters in states like Wisconsin. She didn\u2019t even step foot in the badger state, and in turn, Trump swept the rust belt.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn\u2019t just animosity toward Clinton that drove those voters.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s 2016 message focused in large part on bringing back blue-collar jobs and addressing the plight of those in places such as Appalachia and beyond who watched their livelihoods and way of life be decimated due to policies in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was rewarded for focusing on the \u201cforgotten man\u201d They also promised to attend to their concerns in D.C. Most politicians have targeted their messages to the middle class and minorities. They do. Trump was the first candidate to target a specific message at non-college-educated, white voters in a while.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2016\/11\/09\/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> Pew \u201cTwo-thirds (67%) of non-college whites backed Trump, compared with just 28% who supported Clinton, resulting in a 39-point advantage for Trump among this group.\u201d When <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/2378023117736486\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Focus<\/a> The numbers for white working-class men were even worse. Only 23% supported the Democratic nominee.<\/p>\n<p>While non-college-educated white voters supported Republicans in the past two cycles, Trump\u2019s 2016 margins were dominant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2012 and 2008, non-college whites also preferred the Republican over the Democratic candidate but by less one-sided margins (61%-36% and 58%-40%, respectively),\u201d Pew <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2016\/11\/09\/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Additional<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed that Trump had taken this support as his in 2020. Instead, Trump&#8217;s campaign and his administration focused on minorities. They believed that increasing minorities&#8217; support was the key to winning. He also introduced the platinum plan and criminal justice reform.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, reaching into new communities for support isn\u2019t necessarily a bad strategy. Although the specifics of Trump&#8217;s strategy can be debated and debated, who can blame someone for wanting to bring in more Americans from all walks of life into the GOP?<\/p>\n<p>Some critics think he didn&#8217;t pay enough attention to his most passionate supporters. On the 2020 campaign trail, Biden made contact with white non-educated voters, which cut away Trump&#8217;s support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as he got inaugurated, he forgot the forgotten man,\u201d Biden made the remarks in Pittsburgh in September 2020. That sort of rhetoric was commonplace throughout \u2014 but was largely ignored by both mainstream media and conservative critics. Biden was called a &#8220;woke socialist&#8221; by the Right. Legacy media praised him because of his diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Anecdotal evidence shows that speeches such as those mentioned above were very effective. Biden won Pennsylvania and Wisconsin respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s popularity was higher among all demographics, except white men. Newsweek pointed out that Trump has improved with every demographic except white men. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/donald-trump-support-demographics-white-men-exit-poll-1545144\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">That<\/a>\u00a0\u201creflected an overall loss with not college-educated white voters, down from 67 percent of the vote to 64 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden, however, was able to improve on Clinton\u2019s anemic support amongst that same section of the population.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBiden won because he won back Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania,\u201d Havard Business Review Columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2020\/11\/how-biden-won-back-enough-of-the-white-working-class\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Observed<\/a>. \u201cThe percentage of white working-class men voting Democratic increased from 23% in 2016\u00a0to\u00a028% in 2020, while among white<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden, for all his deftness, understands something that twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton never learned: The white working-class vote is crucial for winning the Electoral College. Tuesday night, the president made it known during his State of the Union address that he intends to win back non-college-educated white voters who have either stayed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1840244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[3706,11791,11711,5599,4554,6459,3765,7627,18074],"class_list":["post-1840241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-bidens","tag-clear","tag-forgotten","tag-hes","tag-speech","tag-voter","tag-white","tag-win","tag-working-class"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}