Democrats are fighting each other. Trump doesn’t even have to try if they can’t agree amongst themselves.
And now AOC kicked Kamala’s legs out from under her in the most critical moment.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., made it clear she isn’t thrilled about Vice President Kamala Harris teaming up with former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney in her campaign push.
Speaking on CNN with host Kate Bolduan, Ocasio-Cortez acknowledged the frustration many on the left feel with Harris’s latest strategy of touting Cheney as a “true patriot.”
Asked if Cheney’s involvement could alienate left-leaning Democrats, Ocasio-Cortez responded, “there’s plenty of people that aren’t happy about that, and I think that is part of the nature of putting together a coalition.”
She added, “I don’t love it, but that doesn’t mean that we aren’t on the same team and we aren’t on the same page when it comes to who is unequivocally the better candidate in order to win the presidential election.”
Progressive Democrats, according to recent reports, are unsettled by Harris’s choice to elevate Cheney on the campaign trail rather than rallying her core Democratic base.
Cheney, known for her anti-Trump stance, has shared the stage with Harris at multiple events, while high-profile progressives like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., have been sidelined into “low-profile roles,” as reported by the AP.
“The truth of the matter is that there are a hell of a lot more working-class people who could vote for Kamala Harris than there are conservative Republicans,” Sanders told the AP, underscoring the sense that Harris’s reliance on Cheney may be missing the mark with traditional Democratic voters.
Despite this contention, Trump has made major inroads with working class voters.
In fact, he is making history with his commanding support among working-class voters, leading all GOP candidates in the past 40 years, according to a new poll.
Harry Enten, CNN analyst and host of Margins of Error, noted Trump is poised to achieve the strongest Republican showing among union voters in four decades. Harris currently leads Trump among union voters by just 9 points—a slim margin that Enten pointed out would mark “the worst Democratic performance in a generation.”
Union voter support for Democrats has been steadily declining over the years. While President Joe Biden captured union support by a 19-point lead in 2020, Bill Clinton won it by a full 30 points back in 1992.
Enten also highlighted Trump’s significant lead among vocational and trade school graduates, outpacing Harris by 31 points.
Though Harris retains an edge among non-college-educated voters of color, she leads by only 28 points, down from Biden’s 45-point margin in 2020.
“This is part of a larger trend that we’re seeing throughout our politics,” Enten explained on CNN, “in which Republicans, specifically Donald Trump, is doing very, very well among working-class voters.”
Enten went on to add, “The fact is, Donald Trump seems to have gone into a hotbed of traditional Democratic support and made a lot of movement in ways I don’t think a lot of people would have thought when he went down that escalator just back in 2015.”
In recent years, working-class allegiance has swung increasingly toward Republicans, eroding the once-solid support Democrats enjoyed among blue-collar workers.
Trump’s 2016 victory was widely credited to his strong working-class backing, which he has continually bolstered by positioning Democrats as disconnected elites, far removed from the realities facing everyday Americans.
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