Sentences with phrase «with working class voters»

In October 2012 it was reported that Young supported a new group of Conservative MPs established to reconnect the Tories with working class voters.

Nick Robinson thinks Alan Johnson will be missed: «Alan Johnson was picked for the job because the former postman who rose to be his union's leader and then a cabinet minister could connect with the working class voters Labour had lost touch with and yet was a Blairite who worried about government spending too much.

In the House magazine interview two months ago, Mr McGinn accused left - wing politicians of «sneering» at the public and warned Mr Corbyn that Labour is losing touch with working class voters.

In seeking the post, the NYPD officer's son had touted his blue collar outer borough roots, and argued his experiences could help the delegation reconnect with the working class voters who supported Trump on Election Day.

After all that was the political thinking that made council house sales so popular with working class voters.

This is worth bearing in mind when you see the countless vox - pop interviews with working class voters who used to support Labour, saying they feel the party's MPs are nothing like them.

Not exact matches

During the election, Trump scored points with an array of working - class voters by saying he would renegotiate trade deals, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA, which the president has said favored other countries over the U.S.

Springer's proponents have highlighted his ability in the era of President Donald Trump to provide his own funding for a campaign and to connect with working - class voters familiar with his television show and history in Ohio politics.

Rather than assuming that all women or African Americans or working - class whites will respond to the same message, they target individual voters with emotionally charged content — in other words, ads designed to tug on emotional biases.

Pawlenty might also be able to help Romney a little with working - class white voters.

Second, immigration policy, if it is not coupled with a wider agenda, has a chance to hurt the Republicans among middle and working - class voters if they aren't careful.

As a middle - class white volunteer at work on black voter registration in the Deep South, I rode along a highway one day in a car with three young black men.

Recognizing that wining over working - class swing voters (or non-working-class voters with many struggling people in their social networks) requires, at minimum, addressing the everyday concerns of those voters — and recognizing that the fates of American working - class voters of all races and ethnicities are linked.

This strategy would seek to cement a coalition between orthodox conservatives and working - class white swing voters who have never been fully comfortable with conservative small government politics.

This strategy largely writes off the non-evangelical white working - class in the hopes of winning over nonwhite voters and it aligns Republican policy even more closely with the policy preferences of the Washington business lobbies.

«I feel a strong connection with voters when I talk about how my parents worked hard to lift us to the middle class and instilled hard working values that allowed me to succeed,» Delgado said in a statement.

In my experience in focus groups with lower middle class and affluent working class swing voters, people are obsessed about two things: the NHS; and welfare.

He also impressed many MPs with his remarks about how to win back working class voters.

A group of 63 Conservative MPs launched the Blue Collar Conservatism group today, with the aim of winning over working class voters.

As I wrote before the election, speaking with Americans gave me the impression that voter turnout could put Trump in the White House; it seemed that an increase in white, working class Republican votes together with a decrease in Democrat voters from parts of President Obama's support base could tip the result Trump's way.

Labour has always been a broad church, but a move towards the liberal attitudes of its metropolitan voters has in turn alienated a working class with genuine social concerns.

Unless Miliband could present the public with a bigger and more inspiring message, Axelrod told him, it would be impossible to regain the support of the white working - class voters who were deserting the Labour party.

While they lost ground in seats with high concentrations of working - class voters, or those with no cars and poor health, they gained 2 percentage points or more in English and Welsh seats with the highest concentrations of middle - class professionals, car owners and those in good health.

The former shadow education minister Tristram Hunt had a decidedly mixed 2015, but he recently talked pretty powerfully at the Fabian Society about the politics of inequality, Labour's frayed bond with working - class voters and the necessity of reinventing the party's belief in redistribution.

The aspirational voters of suburban England — middle - class seats with falling unemployment and rising incomes — swung behind the Cameron - Osborne «long - term economic plan», while Ukip surged in seats with large concentrations of poorer, white working - class English nationalists, many of whom sympathised with Labour's economic message but not the people delivering it.

«The reason why the Democratic Party is losing across the nation and at home is that they are coopted by a small band of misfits who continue to talk to each other in echo chambers and refuse to acknowledge that the party of Roosevelt, Kennedy and Clinton no longer has the ability to communicate with working - class voters,» she said.

Holding swing voters will be in vain if Labour has not also got its working class support to the polls, and reconnected with disillusioned left - liberals.

The recent book Revolt on the Right (co-written by Robert Ford) showed that Ukip draw their support from a very clear demographic: the «left - behind» electorate of older, working - class white voters with few educational qualifications.

She argued despite his principles, the party under Mr Corbyn was not «communicating with our voters» and stressed her northern working class roots as well as her experience with «metropolitan things».

Blair destroyed his own credibility with the working class core voter even before the Iraq war.

Elsewhere in New York, Iowa, Michigan and Maine, Trump's appeal with white working - class voters has actually boosted Republicans.

Working - class voters are most concerned with immigration, and they are more likely than other groups to vote for UKIP.

Appealing to the north of England, working class voters and ethnic minorities with an aspirational agenda was at the heart of this launch, with a focus on «bread and butter issues such as the cost of living,» as well as ensuring environmental problems aren't merely seen as a concern of the left.

«I wanted to see if there was unity within the party on how we can speak with a single voice and a single mind to win over these working class voters,» he told me.

To reconnect with millions of voters lost since 2001, we need to reassert the coalition between working - class communities and liberal - minded professionals.

added that concern «only» with winning elections was how the centrist wing of the Labour party drove working class voters away.

On television, commentators like Peter Kellner and Andrew Marr were quick to advise that Labour return to the «successful» Blairite New Labour formula with a stronger pro-business orientation, a distancing from the unions and working - class voters and an alignment with the (largely mythical) Middle England.

Paul Nuttall could struggle with his latest plans to win over working class voters (and a certain former leader).

«We intend on changing that by sending another Republican to Washington to fight for our working class and middle class voters, building on the GOP victories of last year with Congressman Michael Grimm and Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis beating incumbents to take seats in Congress and the NYS Assembly.»

They warned a packed audience that Labour is in danger of turning its back on its traditional voters and the party has to do more to connect with white working class voters in historically Labour constituencies if it is to have any chance of winning power.

He has a reputation as someone who connects with working - class voters — just the kind of voters who defected to Trump and whom Democrats need to win back.

«I was re-elected... five months ago with a bigger majority and I am determined to finish that job; to reconnect Labour with our working - class voters and values so we can win power to rebuild and transform Britain for the many, not just the few.»

But today, the Tories lead among all groups of voters, with a massive surge in support among the working class for Theresa May.

Davis would give a punchy, no - nonsense line of crime and order issues, and also plays well with swing voters and upper working / lower middle class voters.

The decision to campaign as Better Together in conjunction with the Coalition parties alienated large numbers of working class voters from Scottish Labour.The lack of a «more devolution» option polarised working class opinion though that option was effectively revived in «the vow «agreed between the Westminster parties last month.

Ed Miliband doesn't need to set out concrete policies — it would be good if the Labour movement is given a real opportunity now to help draw up that political alternative, but the party desperately needs a narrative and to be seen identifying with working and middle class voters who now find themselves at the sharp end.

Trump ended up over-performing past Republican presidents with white, working class voters who were once reliable Democratic voters.

He added: «It angers me that they're playing these games with corporate governance, that they could both represent working class voters in this district.»

The backbencher warned against those close to Mr Corbyn who might be assuming the election result was a solid resurgence of the core vote, saying: «Even on polling day there was still a major problem with white working - class voters.

For a start you're not questioning why working class socialist labour voters went Ukip in the first place, it wasn't some guardian reading, snobbery that the working class are think, therefore are bigoted, so they must vote UKIP as they're nasty right wingers who dint like immigration, the decrease in wages among blue collar workers, due to immigration, is by the bosses seeking immigration to pay lower wages to make themselves more profits, Appeasing implies going along with something through fear of something worse, to agree with controlling immigration, because ex labour voters are going UKIP isn't appeasing it, why would us being afraid of losing is our votes to.