ANALYSIS — The race for working-class voters is underway, with President Joe Biden already working to erase Donald Trump’s edge with what again will be a key group in another close presidential race.
Trump’s convincing New Hampshire primary victory was more of a third coronation, further etching the Republican Party in the former president’s image — which includes his declarations that working-class voters were better off under his presidency. But Biden has been touting a key union’s endorsement and is back to his “Bidenomics” campaign pitch about policies to make the economy work from the “bottom up and the middle out, not the top down.”
Polls suggest Trump has an advantage with this bloc, including in key swing states. But recent economic data has given Biden and Democrats new hope about closing ground among working-class voters.
