Trump Has Lost Working Class White Voters

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2026/03/17/trump-has-lost-working-class-white-voters/

Trump Has Lost Working Class White Voters
March 17, 2026 at 8:17 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

G. Elliot Morris: “In our data, this group recalled voting for Trump by 22 points in 2024. But these voters now give him a net approval of -4 — or a 26-point swing against him.”

“The working-class whites who powered Trump’s rise are, for the first time, opposed to how he’s handling his job as president.”

[Prairie Gates]

1. LOL...not the ones I know, unfortunately

They're all on a triple down.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Same here. He's still their guy.

[WSHazel]

4. These voters are going down with the ship

White working class is getting more dug in.

White collar Republicans, on the other hand, are giving up on Trump and the GOP. The Democrats will win the midterms in the suburbs and big cities. The white working class towns and small cities are gone.

[City Lights]

11. Same here. All my extended family members

that are MAGA are still thick in it with him.

[Coventina]

13. Same. n/t

[kimbutgar]

16. The magaloons i know are still entrenched in their cult leaders

propaganda and his lies. He can do no wrong and Iran threatened us they say!

[dem4decades]

3. They love that he's a fuck up, he's one of them.

[yaesu]

5. There's always enough brain dead voters to keep his dictatorship going if enough voter suppression happens

and it will happen is the fascist state big time.

[BannonsLiver]

6. Endlessly weird to me that people deny the political realities of all this.

And I’m talking about the people on this side of the fence who won’t accept the reality this is bad politics for him based solely on their own little anecdotal bubbles. There’s always some low info, low energy, intellectually lazy AF quip that is almost always utterly pointless. At least get some new lines, FFS.

[Torchlight]

7. I'll admit that neighbors and coworkers who had been loudly defending his behavior and actions

have all fallen back on “what about?” arguments over the course of the past two months. Support for the war is rapidly declining, even among his own base, leaving only a small, unfortunate group to continue insisting it's a valid and rational course of action despite the reality that the village idiot is in charge.

[rustbeltvoice]

8. He has not...

unfortunately the term is partly a euphemism for racist, and he will not lose that segment. There wasn't much before, but after Hoover's Depression began (1929), there has been no reason for any member of the "white working class" to vote for a Republican; with Orange Caligula's beyond obvious evil, moreso. Some may think, i have gone too far writing that. I have not.

[leftstreet]

14. +1

[70sEraVet]

9. They're still OK with becoming a fascist nation.....

They just wish it was more affordable.

[ffr]

10. They enjoyed the hell out of tearing up our government institutions & national security

But now GOP pocketbook policies are killing their bank accounts too. Oh no, they're feeling the pain they celebrated for others. Boo-hoo!

EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN. EPSTEIN.

[Hassler]

12. I have them in my family, which is why I live 2000 miles away

Anecdotally, the shitty MAGA flags have disappeared from my neighborhood. They're humiliated by him, but won't quit him. Think of little Marco in his clown shoes.

[Norbert]

15. Most that I know are sticking with the idiot

The other day one of them couldn't figure out why Iran has such control over the Strait of Hormuz. I told him to look at a map of the region. It isn't that difficult to understand. DAMN.

[Xavier Breath]

17. I'm betting they'll feel differently once they're in that voting booth and it really counts.

[senseandsensibility]

18. But probably not white working class males

Some of the females are waking up it sounds like.

[hibbing]

19. Convinced people to vote against their own interests

Reagan really did a number on our party. Remember "Reagan Democrats"? The Republican party and their friends in the media have somehow convinced many people to vote against their own economic self-interest. Is it all because of race?

[LuvLoogie]

20. Fuck em

All of them.

[OC375]

21. All the way to the scene of the crash

Everyone has already taken sides in their hearts. Figureheads matter little.

Alea iacta est

[Martin68]

22. It's about fucking time they woke up and smelled the coffee.