On Tuesday, he presented his economic policies as a unifying factor. Now that he is president, Biden is trying to appeal to working-class whites without alienating the diverse coalition that now constitutes the Democratic Party. That top Democrat was Joe Biden, then the outgoing vice president. Shortly after the election, the New York Times interviewed a top Democrat who lamented Clinton’s apparent conclusion that working-class whites “were not even worth pursuing,” as the paper put it. Trump’s victory was a gut check for Democrats who had once campaigned in packed union halls and delivered speeches from bustling factory floors. Tom Harkin's annual fundraising steak fry dinner in 2013 in Indianola, Iowa. Then-Vice President Joe Biden at Iowa Sen.
Hillary Clinton was so confident in her appeal to working-class voters that she hardly campaigned in the upper Midwest, ignoring alarms emanating from Michigan and Wisconsin, where Donald Trump’s appeals were gaining ever more sway. “Put Bill Clinton back in the office, and we’ll be better off.”ĭemocrats tried that four years later - sort of. I’m still poor,” a nursing aide in Pennsylvania told Politico ahead of that year’s presidential election. “He sounded like he was going to make things better, but it just seems like it’s going downhill. By 2012, there was no hope of reconciliation. In 2008, working-class white voters chose Republican nominee John McCain over Democrat Barack Obama by a 3-2 margin. Many of them have been increasingly disaffected by what some saw as the Democratic Party’s elite turn. Since the 1980s, Republicans had been making steady gains with working-class white voters in particular. It’s part of an apparent electoral strategy - a blueprint for blue-collar voters - with which Biden and congressional Democrats hope to rebuild their appeal in key swing states.
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