Trump's Base Is Tiring of Him at a Bad Time

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Trump’s Base Is Tiring of Him at a Bad Time

February 3, 2026 at 11:39 am EST By Taegan Goddard 46 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2026/02/03/trumps-base-is-tiring-of-him-at-a-bad-time/

Ron Brownstein: “Since emerging as the GOP’s leader in 2016, Trump’s hold on working-class White voters — often defined as White adults without a four-year college degree — has been almost impregnable. These voters have leaned right since the social upheavals of the late 1960s. But even against that backdrop, Trump has impressively widened the Republican Party’s advantage, winning about two-thirds of non-college White voters in all three of his presidential races, according to the exit polls. That was the strongest showing with these voters for any candidate in either party since Ronald Reagan’s 49-state landslide victory in 1984.”

“But now Trump’s blue-collar advantage is fraying. National polls released last week by the Pew Research Center and Fox News Channel each showed these non-college White voters dividing almost exactly 50-50 on whether they approved or disapproved of his job performance as president.”