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Hello and welcome to 2020 Politics War Room with James Carvelle and I'm Al Hunt.

We're proud partners with the signed institute at American University in Washington, D.C.

We have quite a show this week, but first go ahead and subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher,

or wherever you listen to podcasts. Every new listener helps, so thank you for being here.

We do have a really interesting and I think important program today looking at the white working class voters,

a central component of Franklin Roosevelt's coalition and John F. Kennedy's 1960 victory,

and then a core of Ronald Reagan's support in the 80s and Donald Trump four years ago.

Our two guests have thought, researched and written a great deal about this.

David Paul Coon, author of a riveting new book, The Hard Hat Riot,

at the 1970s, seismic and violent confrontation between thousands of New York City construction workers,

and young college anti-war protesters. It was a critical moment in the move away he argues,

and I think he's right, from the Democratic Party, from their parents.

And Stanley Greenberg, one of America's premier pollsters and social scientists,

who first studied the so-called Reagan Democrats in McComb County, Michigan.

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