Matt Boyle, the national political editor at Breitbart News, said former President Donald Trump needs to turn out the “disaffected, working class voters” in November in order to pull off a victory against President Joe Biden.
“This election is going to be won much like how 2016 was won for Trump,” Boyle explained on Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show. “It’s going to be, can Trump turn out those disaffected working class voters? Also, can he flip some of these college-educated voters back away from the Democrats that we’re seeing slide a little bit in some of these polls and exit polls?”
Boyle said from now to November, Trump must return to places like East Palestine, Ohio where he can “give a voice” to the “working class folks” and “forgotten men and women.”
“Look, the Democrats are going to have more money than the Republicans,” Boyle said. “They always do. They’re going to have Hollywood. They’re going to have big media. They’re going to have all the big corporations behind them. Yes, Trump being under attack from lawfare from the left and all this stuff, that’s important and that helped him solidify his lead, but the moment he took the lead in this election was when he went to East Palestine, Ohio. Trump went there and he heard these people that were the forgotten men and women of this country, the working class folks.”
“So what Trump needs to do is he needs to keep going back to the well here, right? Keep going back to these forgotten men and women and focusing on them. There’s a million opportunities out there all across America in the hills and hollers, all around this country where Trump should be focusing on. Yes, he should do major events in battleground states and so on and so forth, but what he should do is target the certain areas that are where these folks are,” Boyle added, giving the example of the “empty factories in Virginia” as a place Trump should visit to highlight the manufacturing decline under Biden.
Boyle also said Trump needs to focus on articulating his stance on specific policy issues, including the two biggest issues among voters which is the economy and immigration.
“The way you do that is you focus in on the issues of trade, immigration foreign policy, national security, public safety, and more broadly, of course, immigration and the economy, which are the top two major issues. How do you do that? You go to those places and you talk directly to those people. Cut around the media, make them chase you. Don’t you be chasing them. If he does that then I think he can win substantially in November,” Boyle said.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
