Trump has now transformed the identity of the Republican Party.
By Kristin Tate
Opinion Contributor
The Hill
Ask a suburban woman who voted for Joe Biden why she did not support Donald Trump, and you will likely get an answer about how the president is not a role model to her children or how “words matter” and his rhetoric is detrimental to our national discourse. What you will likely not get is an answer about the economic ideas or international affairs.
If Biden is inaugurated two months from now, it will not be because the agenda of the incumbent is unpopular. Most Americans have benefited from the policies of Trump. Only weeks before the election, over half of voters declared they were better off than they were four years ago. That figure is higher than in 1984, 1992, 2004, and 2012 when the incumbent president ran for a second term. It is not hard to see why.
Under Trump, the average household saved $1,600 each year thanks to tax cuts. Black and Hispanic Americans saw record low unemployment. There is a chance for peace in the Middle East thanks to an unorthodox deal brokered by the administration. Broad criminal justice reform gave thousands of the incarcerated a new lease on life. Manufacturing came roaring back in the United States. A coronavirus vaccine is now getting developed swiftly due in part to Operation Warp Speed.
Though most have benefited from his policies, white voters with college degrees, and many others, were weary of his bombastic personality and endless tweetstorms. After four years of the media sending viewers into frenzies over his rhetoric and some real mistakes by the president, many moderate and even right of center voters had their fill. Thus, Biden won the 72 percent of voters who said they “wanted a uniter.”
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