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'There's only Trump': Analyst reveals what the 'actual' MAGA base really cares about
When President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden, some GOP strategists complained that he was too heavily focused on rallying his MAGA base and didn't do enough to expand his support. In 2024, however, Trump had more of a coalition, firing up his hardcore MAGA followers but also reaching out to independents, swing voters, Latinos and tech bros in a big way.
It worked: Trump didn't win by a "landslide" as the president and many of his allies claim, but the coalition was enough to get him past the finish line and give him a narrow victory of roughly 1.5 percent victory over Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the national popular vote.
Recently, there has been much discussion of conflicts within Trump's coalition, especially over his decision to attack Iran militiarily. But Never Trump conservative Matt K. Lewis, in an opinion column published by the Los Angeles Times on June 23, offers some reasons why he believes that cracks in Trump's coalition won't matter.
Lewis notes Trump's disagreement with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson over Iran policy; Trump attacked Carlson's anti-interventionist views on Iran as "kooky."
It worked: Trump didn't win by a "landslide" as the president and many of his allies claim, but the coalition was enough to get him past the finish line and give him a narrow victory of roughly 1.5 percent victory over Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the national popular vote.
Recently, there has been much discussion of conflicts within Trump's coalition, especially over his decision to attack Iran militiarily. But Never Trump conservative Matt K. Lewis, in an opinion column published by the Los Angeles Times on June 23, offers some reasons why he believes that cracks in Trump's coalition won't matter.
Lewis notes Trump's disagreement with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson over Iran policy; Trump attacked Carlson's anti-interventionist views on Iran as "kooky."
https://www.alternet.org/matt-k-lewis-trump-coalition/