Working-class voters in the deep-blue city of Philadelphia are showing dramatic signs of switching to former President Donald Trump's Republican Party.
“Democrats keep saying [Trump] The economy will be weaker, but he's already been president for four years and his taxes were lower,” said Gabriel Lopez, a former Hillary Clinton supporter. said of philadelphia inquirer on tuesday. “We're tired of the same politics. We had a different type of player, but we all really loved him.”
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Lopez's story seems to suggest that many Philadelphia voters are unaffected by the ongoing political realignment. Democrats outnumber Republicans 7 to 1.
The Republican Party, until 2016, seemed to be the party of big business and their interests, but now the Democratic Party is under the banner of globalism and “democracy,” dating back to the post-Franklin D. Roosevelt era. It has taken over its role, which is the reform of political identity. . The biggest issues driving restructuring include rising costs, low wages, and tariffs. Real wages rose under the Trump administration as the president supported tariffs and border security to protect American workers. Mr. Trump's proposal is especially popular in Rust Belt countries, where the U.S. government has allowed big business leaders to move manufacturing jobs out of the United States.
“Lopez embodies one of the Democrats' biggest problems in Pennsylvania: Philadelphia's working-class voters, once a reliable voting bloc for the party, have shifted to the right in recent years.” questioner's Reported by Anna Orso, Leila A. Jones, Julia Terruso, and Aseem Shukla. “And they have been disproportionately affected by the rising prices of the past few years, and many are blaming the Democratic Party for this problem.”
Opinion polls seem to support that idea. Nonwhite identification with the Democratic Party is “at its lowest point since the 1960s and before the civil rights movement and the 1964 election, when black voters aligned themselves with the Democratic and anti-Republican sides.” financial times John Byrne-Murdoch, columnist and chief data reporter explained earlier this year. “In 2020, the richest third of voters supported Democrats for the first time, and Republicans gained support among the poorest,” Byrne-Murdoch explained. “Republicans now appeal to working-class and middle-class voters of all ethnicities.”
Jim Cohn, a lifelong Democrat and former truck driver who lives in South Philadelphia, said he plans to vote for Trump and believes his neighbors will too. “Everything was cheaper when Trump was president,” he said. “Everything is up in the air right now.”
Charlie O'Connor, the Republican leader for Northeast Philadelphia's 45th District, said he thinks Republicans will perform much better in Philadelphia than they did in 2020. Republicans have been gaining strength in the City of Brotherly Love since 2023, with 10,300 people registered, compared to Democrats' 9,800, according to the State Department.
“When I first entered politics in 1978, management was Republican. No one votes the way their bosses vote,” O'Connor said. questioner. “Right now, most people in the management class vote Democratic, and no one votes like their bosses do. So it's flipped. Most of the bosses are Democrats, and the Democrats are It has become a party of the upper middle class.”
“The question we ask at the door, whether you're black or white, is: Is your life better than it was four years ago?” O'Connor said. “That's the universal message. And people don't.”
Wendell Husebo is a political reporter for Breitbart News and a former RNC war room analyst. he is the author of politics of slave morality. Follow Wendell “×” @WendellHusebø or society of truth @WendellHusebo.
