President Trump will kick off his reelection campaign Tuesday at a rally in Orlando, and he is likely to make a full-throated pitch to keep his ardent supporters in line. Polls suggest he is right not to take his base for granted.
Since then, he has rarely sought to expand his appeal, as other White House incumbents have done. Instead, the president has geared his rhetoric, policies, travel and campaign apparatus almost exclusively toward the voters who unexpectedly put him in office.He lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton but won the election by turning a handful of traditional Democratic counties in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
As a result, Ekins found that many of Trump’s voters hold conflicting views on key issues, including whether to give tax breaks to the wealthy, as Trump has done in his tax reform legislation, and on immigration and trade, his signature causes.About 1 in 5 Trump voters that Ekins studied, a group she dubbed the “anti-elites,” was alarmed at alleged charges of cronyism and corruption in Clinton’s past — but now see the same problems in Trump’s scandal-plagued administration.
In more recent polling, a majority of these voters said they still disliked the president personally, underscoring their openness to other candidates. Trump clearly has decided voters are not concerned about his ethical lapses and unconventional behavior.on his political opponents from foreign governments even though his 2016 campaign’s contacts with Russian operatives and officials helped spark a special counsel investigation that led to U.S. indictments or charges against 34 individuals.
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