Trump losing rural support…

[pdq]

…or so says recent polling:

The 2024 election saw Trump win 63 percent of rural voters, up from 60 percent in 2020, according to AP VoteCast.

But a new PBS/NPR/Marist poll, conducted between April 21 and 23 among 1,439 adults, shows that Trump's support among rural voters is declining.

…According to the poll, just 46 percent of rural voters now approve of Trump's job performance, while 45 percent disapprove. In February, 59 percent approved and 37 percent disapproved.

Newsweek’s overall poll tracker:



This is before Medicaid, which rural areas are highly dependent on, gets gutted.

[Speedy]

Trump will win back a lot of rural voters once their crop subsidies are increased.

[rgG]

If Medicaid gets gutted the blowback for rural hospitals could be devastating.

[Speedy]

Rural hospitals got a big boost from the Affordable Care Act. It’s Obamacare that’s killing them. Ask any rural Trump voter, they know.

[pdq]

…also, center-left parties around the world continue to benefit from Trump’s presidency.

The conservatives in Canada, who had a big polling lead before Trump, saw that collapse entirely thanks to the Orange one. Their leader and candidate for PM Pierre Poilievre actually lost his own seat.

And yesterday, the same thing happened in Australia:

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has secured a second term in office in what appears to be an election wipeout for the Liberal Party leader, as voters chose stability over change against a backdrop of global turmoil inflicted by a returning US President Donald Trump.

Note: The “Liberal party” is the main conservative, right-wing party in Australia.

I think it must be that down under, they’re all upside down :wink:

Albanese’s Labor Party was on course to secure a majority, and while votes were still being counted, early results showed a sharp swing towards his center-left party, according to projections from national broadcaster the ABC and CNN affiliate Sky News.

Liberal Party leader Peter Dutton, who had hoped to end the night as prime minister, lost the outer-suburban Brisbane seat that he’s held for more than 20 years, ending a brutal night for the veteran politician who held senior seats in the last Coalition government.

Dutton entered the five-week campaign…

Five-week campaign! We can’t we have nice things like that?

… on a strong footing. But analysts say his chances were badly damaged by policy misses and reversals, and weighed down by Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to the global order.

Thanks Don! You’re like a hit! (…upside the head with a baseball bat…)

[Black]

Speedy wrote:
Rural hospitals got a big boost from the Affordable Care Act. It’s Obamacare that’s killing them. Ask any rural Trump voter, they know.

:goodone:

[graylocks]

Black wrote:
[quote=Speedy]
Rural hospitals got a big boost from the Affordable Care Act. It’s Obamacare that’s killing them. Ask any rural Trump voter, they know.

:goodone:
sardonically sad but true.

[mrbigstuff]

Rural and suburban hospitals are going under with increasing frequency, and no signs of slowing.

[Acer]

mrbigstuff wrote:
Rural and suburban hospitals are going under with increasing frequency, and no signs of slowing.

Many of these hospitals around here are being bought by health system conglomerates. Which, to be fair, seems to have saved them for now, at least until the inevitable budget shortfall necessitates their closure.

[RAMd®d]

So besides Big Pharma we're getting more and more Big Hospa.