Are Biden Republicans the new Reagan Democrats?
by Emily Larsen, Political Reporter |
| July 23, 2020 02:37 PM
High-profile disaffected Republicans who oppose President Trump are not only voicing their discontent and support for Joe Biden but forming political operations on the bet that Republican voters in key swing states feel the same way.
The ultimate goal is to emulate the 1980 “Reagan Democrats†movement of largely working-class Rust Belt voters that helped put the Republican president in the White House.
But while there is some 2016 Trump voter appetite for turning away from him this year, the trouble for the Republican organizers hoping to create a “Biden Republicans†effect is that the electorate doesn’t operate in the same way as it did 40 years ago, and the Democratic presidential nominee does not generate enthusiasm in the way Ronald Reagan did.
Former Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who stayed in the 2016 Republican presidential primary long past the point of being able to win it due to his opposition to Trump, has reportedly been asked to speak at the Democratic National Convention in support of Biden. Biden himself has teased that high-profile Republicans are organizing to support him in the election.
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