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This is on point. I'm Magna Chakrabardi. On Thursday, Donald Trump became the first former president in

United States history to be convicted of felony crimes. A New York jury found

him guilty on all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally

influence the 2016 election through a hush money scheme. And yet the felony

convictions are unlikely to change Trump's 2024 presidential race polling

numbers at all, at least in the immediate term.

That is in part because voters in Trump's base have repeatedly shown they will stand by him regardless of what he does or says.

But it's also because of something else.

It's because of what Democrats won't say.

Not about Trump, but about the core interests of working-class voters.

Journalist Timothy Noah says, quote,

don't blame President Joe Biden, who has lavished more attention

on working class issues than any president since Harry Truman, end quote.

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