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

Cracks are opening in the foundation of President Donald Trump’s coalition: working-class White voters. That could be crucial in November’s midterm elections. For Democrats, improving their performance among those voters is the key to expanding their map of opportunities in both the House and Senate.

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.