Chris Kenning

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The Excerpt · Is Trump losing his grip on working-class voters? · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

And so that hurt a lot of people.

Since then, there's been an agreement to buy more, but

Some of those purchases are now being made in South America where they weren't before.

So right now they're dealing with challenges like low prices and the cost of fuel and fertilizer has also gone up because of the war in Iran with oil and other things not getting through the Gulf.

So he said there's farmers that are in the red right now.

But as you mentioned, he said he believes the war was necessary to keep nuclear weapons out of the...

regime's hands.

And he kind of said, we have to see how this plays out.

He's not sure what the midterms are going to bring.

Trump's obviously not on the ballot, but he doesn't blame Trump for some of the struggles that they're facing now.

Yeah, I mean, it's typical that a president's party loses seats in the midterm elections.

I think during Trump's first term, the GOP lost like 41 seats in the House but retained the Senate.

But in 2018, you know, working class voters still approved of Trump's economic management by a much bigger margin than they do now.

So...

How that plays out is yet to be seen, but we've seen that some polling suggesting that more people among this group say that they're willing to consider voting for a Democrat, which is still under half, but it's up from the 2018 midterm.

So we could see a change, but I think, you know, some of the experts I talked to, as you mentioned, the stickiness, it's not necessarily that they believe a lot of people are going to suddenly vote Democrat who've been voting Republican.

It may just be that people stay home and that could cut into the GOP efforts to maintain their majorities.

That's interesting because, you know, I think what some of these experts saw was that there's been this really long since the 90s move of white working class and rural voters to the GOP from Democrats.

I mean, it's, you know, happened over time.

And it's not known if the polls might change if once, you know, gas prices go down and different things.

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