Trump/Biden ELECTION NEWS: Trump More Popular Among Military Households than Biden; Biden Suggests Michigan Voters Chose Trump Partly Because of Racism, and other Campaign/Poll News

By admin On Sep 14, 2020

Donald Trump More Popular Among Military Households than Joe Biden:

A poll shows that President Donald Trump is more popular among military households than Democrat presidential nominee Joe Biden.

According to the Morning Consult poll released Wednesday, Trump leads Biden by 10 percentage points — 52 percent to 42 percent — among 2,711 likely voters in military households, or households with an active-duty service member or veteran.

According to the poll, 53 percent of military households approve of Trump’s job performance, about the same share as at the beginning of his presidency.

The poll was conducted September 6-8 — after the Atlantic published a story claiming that Trump disparaged the World War II dead.

Trump’s advantage with military households was nine percentage points ahead of Biden before the report published, or statistically the same as after the report published. —>READ MORE HERE

Joe Biden Suggests Michigan Voters Chose Trump Partly Because of Racism

Former Vice President suggested Thursday that voters in Macomb County, Michigan, abandoned the Democratic Party to vote for Donald Trump in 2016 because they are racist.

In an interview with Jake Tapper of CNN, Biden said that some voters felt “taken for granted,” and speculated that they responded to Trump using a “dog whistle” on race.

From the CNN transcript (emphasis added):

TAPPER: Let’s turn to the 2020 race, and specifically the fact that we’re in Macomb County, Michigan, right now.

This is a county that President Obama and you carried twice, and then President Trump carried by 12 percentage points in 2016.

You’re a son of Scranton. You’re somebody who likes to talk about working class, the middle class. Why do you think so many of these folks turned against the Democratic Party in 2016?