You've got to provide some backup to the claim that his base is shrinking.
I know quite a few and they are quite educated and certainly not racists. Some voted for Trump because they would never see Hilary in office. Others voted because they are Republicans and a Republican president, even Donald Trump, would help achieve their policy goals.
Originally Posted by grean
I guess it depends on how you define Trump's "base". Anyone who voted for him in 2016 or the subset that will support him through thick and thin no matter what.
If it's the latter, then no, Trump has lost none of his base. His mainline supporters are as devoted as ever. However, regarding the former, I think that either many people who voted for Trump in 2016 abandoned him, or many who did not vote in 2016 for whatever reason came out in 2018. More likely the former.
From what I have read, the biggest losses by Republicans were in the suburbs and among women voters, primarily college educated women. The only demographics that totally support Trump seem to be old white men without a college degree and evangelicals. There are other demographics where Trump is about 50-50 but not many. It will be a very interesting next 2 years.
"Three clear patterns emerge from this data. First, Democrats did better with white women than white men. Second, Democrats did significantly better with college-educated whites than non-college-educated whites. Third, the South is different: Republicans did far better with whites of all different sorts of backgrounds there than they did anywhere else in the country.
When you pile these patterns in the white vote on top of the now-familiar racial divides — CNN’s exit poll shows Democrats winning 90 percent of black voters, 69 percent of Latino voters, and 77 percent of Asian voters — you get a clear sense of what lead to last night’s results: Democrats winning big with minorities and educated whites.
But this isn’t just a race and educational divide — it’s also a regional one. Another Schaffner chart, on the suburbs, helped clarify how stark the regional differences are. The suburbs, home to many educated whites, are historically Republican bastions. But in 2018, suburban voters broke for Democrats — with the South, once again, the sole exception."
https://www.vox.com/midterm-election...s-race-surburb
