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Wealthy, educated voters fuel Trump?s sweep
WASHINGTON/BETHESDA: Wealthy, well-educated voters helped carry Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump to victory in this week’s East Coast primaries, a demographic the famously blunt-spoken billionaire had struggled to attract in the past.
His sweep of Pennslvania, Maryland, Delaware, Connecticut and Rhode Island on Tuesday included wins in some of the richest and best-educated counties in the country - like Fairfield County, Connecticut, and Newport County, Rhode Island - and added to victories in his more traditional strongholds of white working-class neighborhoods. Exit polls from Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Maryland showed Trump winning about half of Republican voters with college degrees, and over half of Republican voters making more than $100,000 a year. “On its face, it is hard to believe he’d be improving with a demographic group that has been so averse to his style, his denigrating language,” said Randall Miller, a professor of American politics at Saint Joseph’s University in Pennsylvania. “But I think people may have gotten used to Trump, he’s **t as outrageous as he used to be,” he said, adding that familiarity with the businessman’s brand in the **rtheast may also have helped him. Still, the five states could be an uphill battle for Republicans in the **v 8 presidential election. The last Republican presidential **minee to win any of them was George H W Bush in 1988. The challenge for the New York billionaire could be to replicate Tuesday’s performance in other parts of the country as he seeks to lock down his party’s **mination, with 10 state contests remaining. Nationally, likely voters with a college degree have become increasingly critical of Trump in recent months, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling. He is also increasingly unpopular with those who make more than $100,000 a year. أكثر... ??????? ??????: Wealthy, educated voters fuel Trump?s sweep || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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