Trump’s loyal base

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🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The White men without college degrees who love the president more than ever. How evangelical Latinos could swing the vote for Trump in Florida. And, a bakery in Beirut reopens two months after an explosion.

Polls show Biden with a significant lead over the president, but national political reporter Jenna Johnson says there is still one demographic group that can’t be swayed: White men without college degrees. Johnson talked to some of Trump’s most loyal fans.

In the battleground state of Florida, an oft overlooked group of swing voters may have the power to sway the election: evangelical Latinos. National features reporter Jose Del Real reports.

In Beirut, a beloved Manousheh bakery returns after the Aug. 4 explosion that devastated the city. Foreign affairs reporter Siobhan O’Grady and Beirut-based reporter Nader Durgham with a baker’s tale of struggle and survival.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Cleveland, some of the Washington Post.
0:11.1	It's Ellen Nakashima with Washington Post.
0:13.3	This is Post Reports.
0:14.8	I'm Martin Powers.
0:18.9	It's Friday, October 9.
0:23.5	Today some of the people who are planning to vote for President Trump and the reopening
0:29.2	of a bakery in Beirut.
0:36.1	With just over three weeks left until the election, most national polls show Democratic
0:40.5	candidate Joe Biden with a significant lead over President Trump.
0:44.6	But there are still a lot of people who are planning to vote for Trump.
0:49.2	Some people that you might expect and others that might surprise you.
0:53.3	And we wanted to look at who some of these Trump die hards are.
1:00.9	Over a Labor Day weekend, I really wanted to go to a Trump vote parade.
1:07.2	It's this thing that has kind of become a cultural phenomenon, especially over the last few
1:12.1	months, because the president can't have as many big rallies.
1:16.2	A lot of his supporters have been kind of having rallies of their own out on waterways and
1:22.3	lakes and gathering in their boats, covering them with Trump flags and just trying to give
1:28.2	this visual representation of their support for the president.
1:35.4	And I came across this one in San Dusky, Ohio that really stood out to me because it wasn't
1:40.8	just a vote parade.
1:43.1	There was also going to be a barge leading the vote parade and that barge was going to
1:48.2	be covered with 10 cannons.
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