Salena Zito writes for the Washington Examiner, her beat is the back roads of the rust belt. Today she writes of Donald Trump losing his hold on the blue collar people for whom nobody spoke, until he did.
She quotes with approval the following:
Bruce Haynes, a South Carolina native and conservative strategist, said there are 900 ways to say it. “When the concept of Trump was that he stood for the grievances of the voters, they were for him," he said. "At some point, it stopped being about the voters, and it started being about his own personal grievances. And that is when he started losing voters."My opinion: That’s a pretty darn good insight. Hat tip to Power Line for the link.
There is another piece of this that is pretty difficult for him, said Haynes. “A lot of the ethos of Trump was built around winning, but now he’s being accused by some of having a pretty substantial losing streak," he said.
“He used to say 'they,' now he says 'me,'” said Haynes, “That's where he's lost people — he stood for them, and now he's perceived as standing for himself.”
