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J. D. Vance: “Working class voters... don't necessarily show up to vote in…”

Featuring: J. D. Vance, Republican | Vice President of the United States | National

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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... don't necessarily show up to vote in the midterms all the time. We've got to motivate them. We've got to get them out to vote. I think that's one of the lessons that we learned in Virginia and New Jersey is that … (16:43–18:15)

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Asserts that working-class voters are less likely to vote in midterm elections.

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