“When President Trump’s campaign advisers laid out his re-election strategy for reporters last December, they identified a couple types of voters as particularly important targets,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“One was ‘Trump disengagers’—voters who backed the president in 2016 but sat out the midterms two years later. Another was nonvoters, who in many swing states are disproportionately white, working-class and viewed as open to Mr. Trump’s message.”
“As Election Day looms, voter registration and polling data suggest that Mr. Trump has successfully executed on those goals. The question is whether Mr. Trump’s gains are big enough to carry those states once again—and whether he has paid too big a price for them. Polling suggests that as he has drawn new voters into the electorate and energized his supporters from 2016, Mr. Trump has pushed away others, including some who identify as Republican or even approve of his job performance.”
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