More and more white voters are abandoning Trump — and race relations appear be the ‘driving factor’
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/more-and-more-white-voters-are-abandoning-trump-and-race-relations-appear-be-the-driving-factor/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4891 If President Donald Trump is reelected in November, he will do it with a lot of help from white voters — especially older white males in rural areas and small towns. But journalist David A. Graham, in a June 30 article for The Atlantic, asserts that Trump’s support among white voters is decreasing — and the top reason, Graham argues, is race. “When video of the police killing of George Floyd first emerged, Trump condemned it,” Graham writes. “But he quickly reverted to his standard rhetoric, seeing a chance to exploit and exacerbate divisions over race. It’s hard to believe that anyone is surprised: while not every offensive Trump comment has reached the same wide audience or been interpreted the same way, the president’s most widely covered remarks have touched on race. What is different this time i