Biden Was the Fluke in 2020, Not Trump in 2016

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : "Fetterman told me in both 2016 and earlier this year that Trump and the people in Pennsylvania have a connection.
63% : CNN exit polls show that Trump won 13% of Black voters nationally but here in Pennsylvania did much better.
58% : In interview after interview, waitresses, welders, rank-and-file union members, plumbers, HVAC small-business owners, hairdressers and barbers would tell national news reporters, including me, that they were voting for Trump.
57% : Trump won the state with more votes than any statewide candidate in our history.
47% : Trump saw me and spoke to me and the concerns in my life, like the costs of groceries.
45% : Plus, they share other cultural touchstones, such as church attendance, elevated concerns about crime in their neighborhoods, and the economic stress that affects them all.Middle-class Latino, Black and white voters voted together as a continuum of the working-class realignment in this state that catapulted Trump over Vice President Kamala Harris.
45% : They kept the working class in their version of the Democratic coalition and won voters who also voted for Trump.
22% : And all three -- Trump, Shapiro and Fetterman -- spent more time in places like Cambria, Luzerne and Erie counties than in the bigger cities of Pittsburgh and Philadelphia where voters feel they and their issues are "seen.
21% : They would eventually join with an unlikely coalition of traditional Republican voters that included evangelical, suburban and business types and shock the world by voting for Trump over former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2016.
19% : By May of this year, long before Biden dropped out, the working-class coalition had not only moved back to Trump already but actually expanded beyond white voters as more and more Black and Latino voters fled toward Trump for addressing their concerns.

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