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Originally Posted by always_learner11
You think people voted for Trump mainly because of his economic policies? I think there's a fairly solid argument that Trump campaigned heavily on social issues including immigration, pro-life, pro-isolationist, and pro-Christian (i.e. pro-white?) policies and that those policies helped bring people to the polls.
As long as the Democratic candidate campaigns strongly and successfully on the economy (i.e. income inequality) and other core policies (i.e. taxes, health care), social issues can bring out some extra Democrat to the polls. The margins were extremely close especially in the rust belt that decided the electoral college vote, and every Democrat vote counts.
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Are you kidding me? Yes some states such as Alabama, Oklahoma, Montana, Mississippi and other small red states did vote for the reasons you mentioned above.
HOWEVER, the most important states and the ones that handed the victory over to Trump such as Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio voted for him because they all felt that economically they were struggling and they had become the forgotten ones.
They didn’t vote for him for social issues. They wanted to know how he would help them better themselves. Do you’re research, all the states I mentioned voted for Trump for economic reasons were frustrated with how the Democratic Party had left behind and as matter of fact even Democrats voted for to Trump.
Trump is delivering on his economic issue which are key to the states he stole from the Democratic base. His red base will always be there regardless of what he says or does.