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Terri H.'s avatar

The biggest problem is that these folks literally live in a completely different world than we do. Every place they get their information/news is nothing but lies. How do we get them to see/hear the truth of things. Trump has such a following because of lies. It's the saddest most disgusting thing I've ever seen in my 65 years.

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Kim's avatar

I would love to see you follow up on the answer of immigrants getting benefits with asking what benefits they think illegal immigrants are receiving.

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Frank McMullin's avatar

This provided some great perspective - especially the immigration portion, which really stood out to me. I wish we could see their social media feeds to get some perspective on how their algorithms are talking about immigration with them. Maybe this is a blind spot in Democratic messaging -- where the message assumes that everyone knows that there are illegal/extrajudicial deportations being carried out, rather than informing the other side that deportations are in fact targeting people with proper documentation.

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Colleen McGloughlin's avatar

They missed Biden’s efforts for the working class, i guess. And healthcare! For Pete’s sake. Which party supports Medicaid, Medicare, Affordable Care Act? Honestly, I come from working class and i just don’t get how the folks you’ve highlighted think Dems do not support, fight for affordable healthcare.

Is it Fox or something else? I don’t get it.

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The Working Class Project's avatar

Thanks for your comment. We hope you keep following along to learn more as we’re listening to working class voters.

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Colleen McGloughlin's avatar

To be clear, i was not criticizing your work. Valuable and essential. I admire your tenacity and openmindedness. It’s just so frustrating that so many don’t have accurate information. And, i fear, it will get worse rather than improve.

I thank you for your efforts.

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Patty Cervantez's avatar

These voters have no clue regarding immigration facts! The immigrants being "attacked" are not criminals! They are every day folks just like them except brown! Where do they get their information from? Are they really that clueless to ICE and what they are doing?

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KellyAnn's avatar

Good to know what we need to SAY to get people's votes. (of course we know we already did that every F-in time we had Dems in the White House; but it seems that we need to just do what Amazing Elissa Slotkin is doing FOCUS ON AFFORDABILITY WORKING PEOPLE

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Nate's avatar

Have you noticed any interaction between their views on immigration and affordability? Do they perceive Trump's efforts on immigration to be driven, at least in part, by a desire to address affordability, or more generally, economic fairness? Or is it more exclusively related to feelings of safety/security?

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Carl Selfe's avatar

Now is our moment—take action against this harmful government. Covering up a pedophile ring. Ignoring court orders. Blatant corruption. The poor, the needy, and children are being abused—by our government. In the streets we must protest outright crooks and the pedophiles until after their shooting us starts, until we go down or we oust tyrants. I made 54 protest signs, and will make many more to share. You will see something different in these signs! Help yourself to this second batch, and share them as far as you can.

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/more-free-protest-signs?r=3m1bs

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