A growing body of research shows wealthier Americans flocking to the Democratic Party. The working class, meanwhile, has been forgotten.
Business-Friendly Liberals
In other efforts designed to appeal to the rich, Democrats created a sizeable rift not just between party moderates and progressives, but between themselves and the working class, who have recently gravitated to the GOP. "Qualitatively it seemed like there was a pretty big change between 2012 and 2016 in terms of what the parties were talking about," Fowler told."You had Obama doing a pretty good job going to working-class places in Pennsylvania and Indiana and so forth. By 2016, it almost seemed like it had slipped. Hillary Clinton didn't make much of an effort to reach out to those working-class voters.
Morris Pearl, Chair of the Patriotic Millionaires, speaks during a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on April 18, 2023. The group is committed to raising taxes on the rich.Once the managing director of one of the world's most preeminent investment companies, former BlackRock executive Morris Pearl now serves as chairman of a group of affluent activists called Patriotic Millionaires, a group committed to raising taxes on the rich.
Australia Latest News, Australia Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Virginia Democratic Party’s direction at stake in competing donationsClean Virginia Fund and Dominion Energy each steered big contributions to candidates in the June 20 primary election who support their vision.
Read more »
Oregon Democratic Party will return illegal $500,000 contribution from former FTX executiveThe Democratic Party of Oregon announced the return of $500,000 that was illegally donated by a former cryptocurrency executive to the United States Marshals Service as part of an agreement from several party lawmakers.
Read more »
Cornel West to Run for President With Green Party, Ditches People's Party'In the spirit of a broad United Front and coalition strategy, I am pursuing the nomination of the Green Party for President of the United States,” West announced on Twitter Wednesday.
Read more »
Cornel West seeks Green Party nomination after already declaring People's Party candidacyProgressive scholar and activist Cornel West on Wednesday announced he is seeking the Green Party's nomination for president of the United States.
Read more »
The 2024 GOP Field Faces a Choice: Law and Order or LoyaltyThe federal indictment of former President Donald Trump has left the Republican Party — and his rivals for the party’s nomination — with a stark choice between deferring to a system of law and order that has been central to the party’s identity for half a century or a more radical path of resistance, to the Democratic Party in power and to the nation’s highest institutions that Trump now derides. How the men and women who seek to lead the party into the 2024 election respond to the indictments o
Read more »
Newsom and Democratic lawmakers remain divided on infrastructure planDemocratic lawmakers in California on Monday announced an agreement between the Senate and Assembly on the state budget, but they remain at odds with Gov. Gavin Newsom over his plan to speed up the process of building infrastructure.
Read more »