Despite helping send President Donald Trump to the White House twice, some of the president’s most loyal supporters are now “growing angrier and angrier” with the administration, according to MS NOW’s Nicolle Wallace. On Monday’s “Deadline: White House,” Wallace shared new data that shows a significant portion of working-class white voters, a key part of the president’s base, are abandoning him over his handling of the economy.
An analysis of polling by The New York Times found a notable swing among white voters without college degrees between Trump’s first midterm election and now. In 2018, the group approved of the president’s handling of the economy by margins of 30 percentage points or more. However, recent polls show a majority of blue-collar white voters now disapprove, at rates ranging from 14 to more than 30 points.
“It’s just such a dramatic swing,” the MS NOW host said, adding that the steep drop in support among key members of his base showed Trump was “completely, willfully out of step” with the voters who helped put him in power.
Wallace said during his first term, Trump at least projected to Americans that he was “holding court” and listening to their concerns.