Trump's New Coalition

At this time, the election winner has not been named, but President Donald Trump has shifted his voting demographics in interesting ways. According to the Edison Exit Poll, president trump gained in every demographic except for white men.

In 2016, commentators claimed Donald Trump’s win was due to racism. Van Jones called it a “whitelash,” yet pundits were baffled that many voters who voted for Obama did the same for Trump. For four years, we’ve heard claims that Donald Trump and his supporters were terrible racists. Yet, Donald Trump has done what no Republican has been able to do in my lifetime: expand the base.

From 2016, Trump went up +4 for black men and women, +3 for Latino men and women, +2 in white women, and +5 in other.

Some are astonished by Trump’s blowout in Florida, owed to his impressive showing with Latino voters. Nichole Hannah Jones of The New York Times, infamously known for her role in the 1619 Project, went as far as to belittle the Cuban community and dismiss them as a “contrived ethnic category.” She’d rather explain their support of the president as a sign of whiteness rather than accepting that the Democrats veered too far to the left. Other verified Twitter leftists also expressed disappointment and terrible racism toward minorities who dared to think for themselves.

Cuban Americans don’t like far-left policies that remind them of socialist policies they fled. Black Americans care about school choice, economic opportunities, and minority communities are deeply religious. They care about safety and stability, and watching Democrats like Joe Biden cozy up to “defund the police” movements by being open to “reallocating funds,” was an error. Yes, Covid-19 factored into the election, but Americans are also over lockdowns. Trump said we should open the country. Biden said we’re in for a dark winter and wants to enforce unconstitutional federal mask mandates.

Whatever happens, moving forward, Republicans have to analyze the good about the Trump campaign. Establishment Republicans are eager to blot him out of existence, but his willingness to fight boldly against a broken and corrupt system is what drew in record crowds and historic turnout to the polls. Americans were sick of politicians who don’t keep their promises, endless wars, seeing their jobs go overseas, rising energy prices, and losing the fight in the culture war.

If folks like Cindy McCain and Michael Steele believe they’re the future of the Republican Party, they’re sadly mistaken. Mitt Romney couldn’t dream of building this type of coalition. Jeff Flake would rather concede to the Democrats and see policies he supports—like school choice—be obliterated, just to go back to the days of grinning and bearing losses.

The only reason Donald Trump became president is that he filled a void. Every supporter of the president understands his faults and flaws, even more than his critics. But they stand with Trump because he stands for them. If Republicans don’t find other candidates like Trump who will boldly stand against the establishment for the sake of the American people, they won’t be able to build on his lead.