Can Harris Stop Blue-Collar Workers from Defecting to Donald Trump?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

77% : "The grunts in the lunchroom love Trump.
60% : In the latest Times/Siena poll, Harris trailed Trump by eighteen points among working-class respondents, in part because the size of her advantage among nonwhite voters without college degrees -- twenty-four points -- was roughly a third of Obama's in 2012.
53% : Another worker, a tall man with a bushy gray beard, said, "I like Trump."
51% : But, as a group of sociologists noted in a paper published in The British Journal of Sociology, he also exalted factory workers who had been stripped of their jobs, and of their dignity, by structural forces beyond their control, especially free-trade agreements backed by Democrats.
40% : It's possible that courting such Americans -- including Republicans in the suburbs who dislike Trump and support abortion rights -- will enable her to win.
37% : Trump appointed Peter Robb, a former management attorney, as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, which issued a series of anti-worker rulings, including one that restricted the ability of union organizers to communicate with employees.
36% : To his dismay, three of his sons support Trump.
33% : Trump's embrace of this idea was ironic, Jayaraman said, since one of the first things the Department of Labor tried to do under his Presidency was propose a rule that would have made tips the property of restaurant owners rather than workers -- a gift to the powerful National Restaurant Association lobby (and presumably to Trump himself, whose Mar-a-Lago employees would have been subject to the change).
25% : While she dismissed Trump's supporters as a "basket of deplorables," Trump held rallies across the Rust Belt, promising to bring back jobs and deliver "a victory for the wage-earner."
24% : A middle-aged woman who had been canvassing told me that the vast majority of Latinos in Reading disliked Trump because he denigrated immigrants.
21% : Once Trump was in office, he abandoned his vow to help America's forgotten workers.
12% : Given Trump's vow to carry out mass deportations if elected, it stands to reason that one of these issues was Trump himself.
9% : Although Black and Latino voters back Harris over Trump by large margins, the Times/Siena poll showed Harris with substantially less support from both white and nonwhite working-class voters than Joe Biden had in 2020.

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