From beer track to wine track, from soccer moms to NASCAR dads, Trump’s performance among whites was dominant. According to Mother Jones, based on preelection polling data, if you only tallied the popular vote of “white America” to derive 2016 electoral votes, Trump would defeat Clinton 389 to 81, with the remaining 68 votes either a “toss-up” or unknown. Part of Trump’s dominance among whites is that he ran as a Republican, the party that has long cultivated white voters. Trump’s share of the white vote was similar to that of Mitt Romney in 2012. But unlike the others, Trump secured this
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