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From Breitbart: Working-class voters in the deep blue city of Philadelphia are showing dramatic signs of switching their support to former President Donald Trump’s Republican Party.
“Democrats keep saying [Trump] is going to bring down the economy, but he was already president for four years, and taxes were lower,” former Hillary Clinton supporter Gabriel Lopez told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Tuesday. “We’re tired of the same politics. We got a different type of guy, and the people actually love him.”
Lopez’s story appears to be indicative of many voters in Philadelphia, a city not immune to the ongoing political realignment. Democrats outnumber Republicans by 7-to-1.
The Republican Party appeared to be the party of big business and corporate interests before 2016. Now the Democrat party is taking up that mantle under the banner of globalism and “democracy,” a reformation of political identities dating back to Franklin D. Roosevelt and beyond. Some of the biggest issues driving the realignment are soaring costs, low wages, and tariffs. Under Trump, real wages rose amid Trump’s support of tariffs and border security to protect American workers. Trump’s proposals are especially popular in the Rust Belt states where the U.S. government allowed big-business leaders to ship manufacturing jobs out of the U.S.
The Philadelphia Inquirer notes that Republicans have outpaced Democrats in the registration battle statewide, including in Philadelphia, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 7-to-1 in the city.
Since the end of 2023, the GOP gained more than 10,300 registrants in Philadelphia, while Democrats netted about 9,800, the report reveals.
Another noteworthy shift: While working class voters in Philadelphia have moved to the right, in 2020, the most pronounced losses for Democrats were in the city’s majority-Latino areas, the Inquirer reports.
According to Census data, the fastest growing demographic group in Philadelphia are Latinos. There are more than 600,000 eligible Latino voters in the state of Pennsylvania.
Today’s Philly Inquirer 👀📰 pic.twitter.com/67QJf3AQrT
— Karoline Leavitt (@kleavittnh) October 2, 2024
🚨This is huge. President Trump is going to win the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:
Working class voters are massively shifting toward Republicans in Philadelphia! pic.twitter.com/NQXNhSKCh9
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) October 2, 2024
This is The Philadelphia Inquirer this morning 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/SsVR9KzgYv
— Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 (@alexbruesewitz) October 2, 2024
The new GOP coalition is multi-ethnic, multi-racial & working class (finally!). It is our only hope of preserve capitalism, our military and the American Dream. People are waking up to this.
Dems are losing ground with Philly’s working class https://t.co/xbmUp4m03v
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) October 2, 2024
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