To give the best chance for Ds it should probably be someone that *could*
conceivably win in Ohio. Or North Carolina. Not that they have to, but that it wouldn't be impossible.
It's not just 'white blue collar', it's anyone blue collar, if blue collar means no BA and not living in a major city, which is the majority of the population. Hispanic trend not good.
Not even the positions really but the image and focus and how you communicate. A San Francisco lawyer talking about pronouns is bad, someone not from CA or NYC talking about opportunity and building up the USA is good. They could have the same positions even in large part, but the communication style.
I tend to think DeSantis is a pretty strong candidate, but only if the Trump split thing works out in a way favorable to him which is questionable. Youngkin or someone like that could probably do alright (reverse version, R that could win in VA.) Rs are potentially in the process of overreaching with evangelical abortion stuff scaring people. The vast majority of available votes are moderate on that, and immigration, and all that stuff and either don't care or are actively alienated when it's far in one direction. The popular position on those is 15 weeks and dissatisfied with current immigration policy, but don't cut back and be a dick.
Trade is an interesting one, you can see Biden's reticence to reverse course from Trump aggressively there and I doubt any R would. The way to talk about that has definitely changed.
[Post edited by hoodeyo at 07/27/2022 7:22PM]
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