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Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

The Strangest Alliance in Politics

Making the Argument with Nick Freitas

Nick Freitas

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.4743 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Politics makes for strange bedfellows. But, sometimes, a campaign coalition is so strange that it defies all expectations. And when that happens, some explanation is required. Today, we will discuss what the Trump Coalition looks like, what causes it to stay together, and whether it will be enough to get him to victory.


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0:00.0

Well, politics makes for strange bedfellows.

0:05.0

I mean, just look at Tina and myself.

0:07.0

She's way out of my league.

0:08.0

And yet.

0:09.0

Oh my gosh.

0:10.0

Sometimes, sometimes a campaign coalition is so strange that it almost defies explanation.

0:18.0

And it certainly defies expectations. And you can definitely say that of the

0:23.4

Trump Coalition. When you were looking at Donald Trump in 2016, I think most people looked at

0:30.4

the coalition of people who were voting for them and said, yeah, that kind of makes sense, right?

0:33.8

You had especially a lot of people kind of, you know, the working class and whatnot that

0:40.2

have felt abandoned by the Democratic Party.

0:42.0

And here was a guy that was speaking their language.

0:44.1

And so you had a lot of people come out and vote and droves that nobody really anticipated.

0:49.0

But it's not like you were expecting Silicon Valley to be plugging for Donald Trump. It's not like you

0:55.1

were expecting big rallies in California for Donald Trump. And yet going into this election cycle,

1:00.8

the 2024 election cycle, we are looking at the Trump coalition right now. And it has got to be

1:06.7

one of the most eclectic I have ever seen on the right. I mean, it really is somewhat bizarre

1:14.1

and in a lot of ways very encouraging. But what we're going to do today is we're actually

1:18.2

going to go through the various elements in the Trump coalition as we see it. And we're going to

1:23.7

ask a couple of questions. One, we're going to ask, why are they all here?

1:28.3

Right?

1:28.6

What do voters for an Appalachia have in common with a bunch of tech bros?

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