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Vice President J.D. Vance may have delivered the keys to victory to Republicans this week when he offered valuable insight on how to reach a key voting demographic in America today.
During a special conversation with Breitbart’s Matthew Doyle during a fireside chat event, the vice president discussed how congressional Republicans should motivate working-class voters to show up at the polls next year.
“The Republican coalition in the 1990s was more upscale – they showed up in midterms, so Republicans tended to do a little bit better in midterm elections in the 1990s, than, say, Republicans do today – and that’s because, while these working class voters are great, they’re also people who don’t necessarily show up to vote in the midterms all the time,” he said. “We’ve got to MOTIVATE them. We’ve got to get them out to vote.”
The vice president acknowledged a lesson that Republicans learned in the recent Democratic gubernatorial victories in Virginia and New Jersey just a few weeks ago.
“When Donald Trump is not on the ballot, you’ve got to give people something to actually believe in, something to be inspired by, to get out there and vote,” Vice President Vance explained. “They’re not going to vote just because you have an R next to your name. You’ve got to speak to this new working-class coalition.”
The vice president said that he worried that some Republicans in Congress would prefer to go back to the Republican days of yesteryear – a GOP platform that lost robustly to enigmatic Democrat candidates before President Trump came on the scene.
“The one worry that I have when I look at so many of our great congressional allies, I do think that some of our folks in Congress, they want to go back to the Republican Party of 20 years ago,” he remarked. “That Republican Party was a Republican Party that lost, and it couldn’t successfully govern the country.”
The key to potential Republican victories in next year’s midterms, Vance suggested, was to heavily embrace the working-class coalition that got President Trump elected.
“We need to lean into this new coalition, do a better job serving them, and that’s how we get them to show up in these midterm elections so that we can win – not just presidential races, but midterm races, too,” he concluded.