Here’s another perfect example of how out of touch the media is. Millions of people who normally would have voted Democrat in the 2016 election, voted for Trump. It’s one of the many reasons he won! But the Washington Post doesn’t get it.
Check out this story from Twitchy:
Dan Milbank gets utterly destroyed over claim ‘there’s no such thing as a Trump Democrat’
Dana Milbank claims in his latest Washington Post column that “there’s no such thing as a Trump Democrat.” Did he miss the last election or what?
This is the story they tweeted:
Opinion: There’s no such thing as a Trump Democrat https://t.co/T0Di1UN7tI
— Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 5, 2017
Here are the responses they got:
.@Milbank respectfully not true. Take a drive to Wisconsin Ohio Michigan PA Minnesota & actually listen to folks
Don't fly
No interstate https://t.co/OAWQg8qnDQ— SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) August 5, 2017
May want to check President/Senate splits from upstate NY. https://t.co/nyvUwBDJSJ
— Derek Willis (@derekwillis) August 5, 2017
This is empirically false and the "data" in this piece is partisan farce; were it true, there is no way Trump could have won PA/WI/MI. https://t.co/wCoy05XHRh
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) August 5, 2017
Here is a map comparing Trump against Ron Johnson in WI 2016. Trump ran ahead of RJ in Dem-leaning western WI: Trump/Feingold Dem votes. pic.twitter.com/8BzeRVfkNe
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) August 5, 2017
(ironically, RJ outperformed Trump, winning by 3% as opposed to his <1%. Why? because that red strip you seen EASTERN WI is so vote-rich)
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) August 5, 2017
Now here's Trump vs. Toomey in PA 2016. What do you notice when you look at this map, @Milbank? pic.twitter.com/5lmDnGZ2R5
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) August 5, 2017
But what's hugely, eye-poppingly notable about this map is Trump's overperformance in NE PA: Scranton, Wilkes-Barre etc. Heavy blue-collar D
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) August 5, 2017
Those people are working-class union Democrats who voted for Trump on the Presidential line and Katie McGinty (D) on the Senate line.
— Jeff B/DDHQ (@EsotericCD) August 5, 2017
And yet the media wonders why no one trusts them!
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