Why More White Voters Aren't Supporting President Trump In 2020
Consider This from NPR
NPR
4.2 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 15 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
That support adds up to record support with white voters for a Democratic presidential candidate. Nearly half of white voters, overall, support Joe Biden.
NPR's Sam Gringlas spoke with a few of them in battleground states. And NPR's Domenico Montanaro explains why this shift fits a longer pattern of the Republican party losing college-educated whites.
In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment that will help you make sense of what's going on in your community.
Email us at considerthis@npr.org.
To manage podcast ad preferences, review the links below:
See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.
NPR Privacy Policy
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Questions about how white people voted in the last presidential election kicked off |
| 0:05.3 | barely 24 hours after election day 2016. |
| 0:08.6 | And Democrats, for the brunt of it. |
| 0:10.9 | Is there a chronic problem for the Democrats with white working class voters? |
| 0:17.1 | The answer it seemed to be yes, and at the time there was a lot of media attention paid |
| 0:21.8 | to the so-called white working class. |
| 0:24.0 | Has the relationship between the party and that very, very large block in the population |
| 0:29.3 | has it been broken? |
| 0:30.9 | I was in an NPR studio that day after the election, watching host Robert Siegel get into it |
| 0:36.4 | with Michigan Democrat Debbie Dingel. |
| 0:38.5 | I don't know that it's broken, but we as Democrats have to take a very strong look at |
| 0:43.6 | what happened. |
| 0:45.2 | What happened was Donald Trump won Michigan. |
| 0:48.1 | Let's take a look at the electoral college map. |
| 0:50.2 | In Wisconsin. |
| 0:51.2 | With that win in Wisconsin, look at how close he is. |
| 0:54.6 | Right now he has 257 electoral votes. |
| 0:57.8 | In Pennsylvania. |
| 0:58.8 | It's the first time Pennsylvania has gone red since 1988. |
| 1:02.9 | This was a so-called blue wall of states where white voters had helped Democrats win for |
| 1:07.6 | decades. |
| 1:08.6 | And the wall comes tumbling down. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from NPR, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of NPR and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.