GOP eyes working-class future
Axios
Mike Allen,
Jim VandeHei
Republicans,
long reliant on big business and the rich, see a post-Trump future centered on
working class white, Hispanic and Black voters, top GOP officials tell Axios.
Why it
matters: This is a substantial shift, born of necessity and the post-Trump
reality. It would push Republicans further away from the interests of corporate
America and traditional conservative ideas like entitlement reform.
Top
Republican officials tell Axios that if the party is going to survive, it needs
to copy Donald Trump’s fixation on blue-collar voters in 2016 and working-class
and minority voters in 2020 — and ditch, or at least downplay, allegiance to
big business.(…)
This is
a substantial shift, born of necessity and the post-Trump reality. It would
push Republicans further away from the interests of corporate America and
traditional conservative ideas like entitlement reform.
Top
Republican officials tell Axios that if the party is going to survive, it needs
to copy Donald Trump’s fixation on blue-collar voters in 2016 and working-class
and minority voters in 2020 — and ditch, or at least downplay, allegiance to
big business.
So
instead of Republican leaders talking about reforming Medicare or Social
Security, you’ll hear them talking about protecting entitlements. Instead of
corporate tax cuts, job “stability” will be a campaign theme for House
Republicans as they try to win the majority in next year’s midterms.
Numerous
corporations are cutting off money to a big chunk of Republicans who refused to
certify the Joe Biden victory. At the same time, Trump showed Republicans how
to invigorate not just working-class whites, but also some Hispanic and Black
voters, especially men.
The
piece suggests that House minority leader Kevin McCarthy of California and Sen
Marco Rubio of Florida are two of the leading figures pushing down this path.
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