John Fetterman and the Fight for White Working-Class Voters

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🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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For the Democrats to hold on to power in Washington, they have to do what President Biden did in Pennsylvania two years ago: Break the Republican Party’s grip on the white working-class vote, once the core of the Democratic base. In tomorrow’s midterm election, no race better encapsulates that challenge than the Pennsylvania Senate candidacy of John Fetterman. Is the plan working or is this crucial group of voters now a lost cause for the Democrats? Guest: Shane Goldmacher, a national political reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	We are driving north on Highway 81 approaching Scranton and about to pass an interchange for President
0:12.4	Biden Expressway.
0:13.6	You can see from New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow.
0:17.5	This is the daily.
0:18.5	You can literally see the freeway sign has been pasted over to make it the President
0:23.1	Biden Expressway named after obviously the hometown kid.
0:27.5	But yeah, there's not that many roads.
0:30.1	For Democrats to hold on to any power at all in Washington, they have to do what Joe
0:35.9	Biden did in his home state of Pennsylvania two years ago.
0:40.3	Break the Republican Party's grip on the white working class voters who used to be at the
0:45.9	core of the Democratic Party base.
0:48.7	The outcome is going to shape our country for decades to come and the power to shape
0:54.3	that outcome is in your hands.
0:57.4	No race better encapsulates that challenge than the Pennsylvania Senate candidacy of John
1:03.6	Federman.
1:04.6	I know Pennsylvania well and John Federman is Pennsylvania.
1:09.6	He is Pennsylvania.
1:13.7	Today National political correspondent Shane Goldmacher traveled to Pennsylvania to understand
1:20.5	how Federman fits into the Democratic Party plan to lure those voters back.
1:26.1	If the plan is actually working or whether Biden was a fluke and that crucial group of
1:33.0	voters is now a lost cause.
1:40.3	It's Monday, November 7.
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