Donald Trump’s 2016 e******n win may have been propelled by white working-class men, but another key group in that narrowest of victories was white women with college degrees.
After heavily favoring Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, enough of these v**ers broke ranks to help Trump over the line, tipping the balance in crucial states in the midwest and elsewhere.
In 2020, however, after four years of tumult, there are signs that Trump has not managed to hang on to that constituency.
“I really failed my fellow American citizens,” said Claudia Luckenbach-Boman. “I’m extremely disappointed in myself, and sometimes I am really afraid to talk about it.
“If I were to v**e again for Donald Trump in 2020, it would be just as much a failure as an American, but also a failure as a human being.”
Luckenbach-Boman was a 19-year-old college student in November 2016. From a Republican-v****g family, she cast her b****t for Trump in Wisconsin, a swing state which he won by just 22,748 v**es.
V****g for her first time, Luckenbach-Boman said she believed Trump, as a political outsider, was the change the US needed. She quickly changed her mind.
“It was just a few months into his presidency that I realized the biggest mistake I could have made as an American citizen was not informing myself,” Luckenbach-Boman said.