With his law-and-order, tough-on-protesters rhetoric, Donald Trump is courting a suburban vote that might no longer exist
“There’s a lot of concern about the way the Minneapolis police acted,” said former Rep. Tom Davis, a seven-term Republican from the suburbs of Northern Virginia. “But whenever you start looting — and now the stuff’s spread out to Leesburg, it’s in Manassas … the politics takes a different turn.”
In Minnesota alone — where Floyd died and where protests have roiled Minneapolis and St. Paul — the state Democratic Party estimates there are 250,000 white, non-college-educated men who are eligible to vote but aren’t registered — more than five times the number of votes Trump would have needed to catch Hillary Clinton in the state in 2016.
It is unclear how much more Trump can squeeze from his base. Rural areas have few voters to offer, Democratic-heavy cities detest the president, and the once-bright lines between them and the suburbs have blurred as people of color diversified the commuter belts and wealthy whites gentrified urban cores.
In Minnesota, first-term Rep. Dean Phillips, appearing with protesters over the weekend, addressed his suburban constituents directly: “To the people that I represent in Wayzata and Minnetonka and Chanhassen and Long Lake,” he said, “I ask that you not be afraid to come here and to listen and to feel this pain. I ask you to be afraid if you don’t … Because if we don’t do something now, my friends, shame on all of us. We’re brothers and sisters.
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