Well! Even the Trumpy cheerleaders at The New York Times have been unable to ignore the soft underbelly of Benedict Donald's Super Tuesday wins. (Are they returning to sanity? Don't bet on it.)
Trump's problem? The suburbs hate him. That's how we would put it, but when the Times cited telling examples, it did so in its usual decorous fashion: "Mr. Trump lost suburban precincts in Virginia despite carrying the state by a staggering 28 percentage points. In North Carolina, his 51-point victory was tempered by much narrower margins in the highly educated and affluent suburbs around Charlotte and Raleigh."
Yep. Those folks didn't like him in 2020, and they still don't like him now — maybe even more so, after Dobbs, January 6, the documents scandal, and all the anti-democracy, run-down-America talk. In the last four years, Trump has done absolutely nothing to broaden his base. In fact, he's actively worked against it, not just saying and doing intemperate things but also threatening to boot everyone who isn't MAGA from the GOP. Who in politics, or just in life in general, thinks this is at all smart?
And oh, those Super Tuesday exit polls. We saw more of them today, and if there were any normal folks on Team Trump, those alarm bells would be ringing. Sixty-six percent of Haley voters said Benedict Donald was not mentally fit to be President, and 81 percent of them said they're not an automatic Republican vote in the fall. In Virginia, half of Haley supporters said they approved of Joe Biden's performance in office. Dobbs, as you'd expect, underlies nearly everything.
How wise, then, that President Biden immediately reached out to those voters to welcome them in. "Donald Trump made it clear he doesn’t want Nikki Haley's supporters," his statement said. "I want to be clear: There is a place for them in my
campaign." You got that right, Mr. President. We cats PURR.
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