Alum ignores that Trump's largest ad buy was the Kamala Progressive Taxpayer Funded Sex Change Surgery for Prisoners and Illegals that ran on a loop during football games....Kamala is for they/them had zilch to do with her losing men...and women and youth voters.
That transgender ad was primarily designed to keep the base energized and motivated across the country. It served as a spark for the true believers to talk to their friends and family, plus volunteering to knock on doors. My MAGA neighbors brought up the issue repeatedly in our conversations. So did the two Trump canvassers who stopped by. It was the second or third issue they pitched to me. They didn’t even bring up the economy, which is understandable.
However, that ad was not meant for the working class and minority voters. I bet more than half of them didn’t even see it. Just look at the states and cities that Trump visited. His message was much more targeted and nuanced in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
The working class voters felt like he understood their economic hardships at the personal level. He made an emotional connection. It’s one of the reasons he did the McDonalds photo-op. He talked about putting the working class first, returning manufacturing jobs to the U.S. and then pivoted to immigrant labor.
It was a good strategy that Harris was unable to counter.