The first polling reactions to last week’s summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, should extinguish the last doubts, if any remained, that outrage over Trump’s behavior is likely to ever dislodge a meaningful portion of his core supporters.
And that may encourage Democrats to take a second look at important new economic ideas from the centrist party group Third Way about how to reach the rural and blue-collar voters central to Trump’s coalition. Their message is that Democrats are more likely to loosen Trump’s grip on at least some of his supporters if the party stresses opportunity over outrage. CONT.
Ronald Brownstein, CNN