Sentences with phrase «working class voters who»

He has just solidified his support from the working class voters who gave him victory in OH, PA, WI, WV etc. etc..

But regardless of talking to the far - right, Blue Labour's potential to engage working class voters, and to be «on my side» is an obvious threat to the current Conservative leadership, which failed to attract «Essex man» - working class voters who want to get on in life and live without fear of crime - sufficiently in 2010.

Blue Labour's relationship with working class populism: Blue Labour has the potential to gain support amongst white working class voters who usually stay at home on election day, by articulating populist themes.

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

It follows research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies making it clear that those who benefit most from cutting inheritance tax are not the working class voters who Nuttall has claimed to champion.

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.

It would also be an affront to trade unions and working class voters who would lose the one influence they have over the metropolitan elites who currently wield power in all major parties.

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

May, however, insisted that the spending plans should focus more on working - class voters who feel they have been left behind by globalisation, and who voted in large numbers to leave the European Union in June.

Warren is expected to try tugging her party toward more progressive policies, while some more moderate Democrats are emphasizing the need to appeal to the type of working - class white voters who helped Trump win Midwestern states carried in recent elections by Democrats.

For instance, George Washington University political scientist John Sides found that the white working - class voters who had first backed Barack Obama only to vote for Trump in 2016 were already moving toward the Republican Party before the campaign got underway.

But the most interesting divide is over how Democrats should relate to white working - class voters who supported President Trump in 2016.

These working - class Trump voters were not poor, and their own lives were not a mess, but they were the neighbors, siblings, parents, and grandparents of those who were struggling to form families.

He did, however, appeal to many less - educated voters in the white working class who hadn't previously taken much interest in politics.

The national Republican candidate who came closest to trying to recapture Reagan's appeal to working - class voters was Mike Huckabee.

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.

While senior Labour politicians seem to feel comfortable speaking to pro-EU middle - class voters who have seen the visible gains of EU membership, they have little to say to Eurosceptic working - class voters who have suffered on the other end.

This proposal will also completely disenfranchise the majority of working class and middle class voters, and empower those who will be utterly alienated from the consequences of exploiting them.

By attempting to secure the votes of forgotten working - class voters, UKIP risks alienating its core middle - class supporters from the south east of England — who remain attached to the party's libertarian agenda.

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.

(The fact that this is often said by people who both regard themselves as working class and voted Conservative at the last election probably says as much about the strength of the Labour brand as it does about the caprice of voters).

It seems likely that the one - third of Labour voters from the last general election who want to leave the EU are disproportionately drawn from the Labour party's historic — but increasingly perilous — working - class base, and there is little doubt that these economic concerns are a major explanation for their dissatisfaction.

We are beginning to lose noyt onl; y working class voters to ~ UKIP and abstention, but radical voters, including those who switched from the Lib Dems, to the Greens.

Electorally, Labour also stands to lose most from pursuing such a xenophobic line as it will alienate ethnic minority voters who are a major component of the most deprived sections of the working class, and are a core constituency of its support in most metropolitan areas.

In parts of old industrial Lancashire and Yorkshire, Ukip are beginning to pick the votes of disaffected working class voters, especially the low paid and low skilled workers who feel left behind by Labour.

«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.

It is interesting to note that these disenfranchised voters weren't poor people who couldn't vote, they were working class people who hadn't bothered to vote... until sufficient motivation was presented.

Voters here are demanding working class representation from someone who has survived a few North Country winters and knows the problems we face every day.»

Voters sprinkled across the vast Adirondacks and environs «are demanding working class representation from someone who has survived a few North Country winters and knows the problems we face every day,» she said, an evident dig at Stefanik's Albany area roots.

The New York Times notes that upstate figured heavily in Clinton's first U.S. Senate win in 2000 — particularly white, working - class voters who had previously voted Republican — and that she feels personally connected to the region.

Landless peasant insulting ex labour voters who went to ukip, you sound like those labour members who 33 years ago couldn't understand why the working class voted tory

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.

It is this battle in the Labour marginals that will determine the scale of May's expected victory and it is these working - class voters who hold the key.

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.

It's Nice Ed's coming back he was at stoke after all, Ed dropped the triangulation line that Blair liked, funny as he actually appealed to both Daivd Owen, Maurice Glasman and Tony benn in 2010 ′ but the triangulation of middle / working class votes has gone that it's not even Left / Right anymore, and the dozen or so policies that unite ex Labour voters who vote Libdem, and the ones who vote Ukip can be summed up in, ignore Soctland and Northern Ireland politics concentrate on the economy, Defence, freedom of speech and women's rights,

Wilson, who runs a small business in Keene, said Stefanik has done little to benefit the lives of working class voters.

David Miliband has been applauded by sections of the liberal press — most notably Martin Kettle in The Guardian — essentially for acknowledging the bleeding obvious; that the parties of the European Left are losing three main groups of voters; working class voters in insecure jobs who are fearful of migrant labour; middle income voters, who are scared of losing their standard of living, and younger middle class graduates who are alienated by the compromises of power.

He insisted David Cameron's privileged background was not an insurmountable barrier, pointing out that Harold Macmillan, who married the daughter of the 9th Duke of Devonshire, did more than any other postwar Tory prime minister to appeal to working class voters.

5) Economic factors continue to decline daily and the voters who are the working class will vote Democratic come November.

Speaking from the Midlands, where the Tories became the biggest party in Walsall and made gains in Dudley, Jess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, said the party has to address issues of concern for white working - class voters in industrial areas who appear to have switched from Ukip to the Tories.

The comments by Lord Glasman, who devised Ed Miliband's «Blue Labour» initiative aimed at persuading working - class voters to return to the party, provoked an angry Labour backlash.

I think in fairness to Steve Hart, Unite's strategy makes union backed candidates from a broader social background part of their political strategy, but certainly not the end of it: At the Unite meeting at Labour Conference, Jon Trickett & Len McCluskey made the case for Unite & Labour developing MP's from down to earth backgrounds, but linked this very much to having policies that adress the needs of working class voters: The Unite strategy is fairly broad, including recruitng union members to Labour, developing MP's (who as McCluskey are backed because they «reflect the values of the union movement» — rather than just being from a particular social class), and supporting the CLASS think tank to develop policy — I did a write up of this meeting for the Morning Star (and a rival Progress one), which may be of interest (I think it will appear if you click on my name)

And the winner of last night's by - election in Rochester, UKIP's Mark Reckless, said the large number of Labour voters who switched their support to him showed «the radical tradition, which has stood and spoken for the working class, has found a new home in UKIP».

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.

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.

However, their candidate is a Remainer, and Stoke's status as «capital of Brexit» is likely to prove a challenge for a party increasingly seen as out of touch with the many of the working - class voters who used to assure it their vote.

Labour gained strongly among younger, more affluent urban voters while the Conservatives reached working - class voters who had never supported them before.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the IDC responded, «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.

To those who suggested that Quinn, long the frontrunner in the Democratic mayoral field, stumbled on the homophobia voters reflect once at the ballot box, Menchaca's and Torres» victories demonstrate that LGBT candidates can win in outer borough districts dominated by working class and poor people of color and without large visible gay and lesbian voting blocs.