He was the first president to walk a picket line. And he crowed regularly about being the “most pro-union” president ever. But after four years as president, Joe Biden could not stop a growing working-class coalition, one that increasingly includes rank-and-file union members, from flocking to Donald Trump.
Reflecting on election night about the coalition that returned him to the White House, Trump called it “a historic realignment.” John McLaughlin wondered if it would endure.
While Republicans celebrated in the weeks after the election, Trump’s longtime pollster looked to the future.
“Right now, these Trump voters—the GOP is just renting them,” McLaughlin told RealClearPolitics. Speaking of the coalition Trump cobbled together consisting of disaffected Democrats and traditionally liberal constituencies, he added that Republicans “need…
