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In today’s edition, Steve Kornacki categorizes how gender and education emerged among white voters, as the NBC News poll shows. Additionally, Lawrence Hurley reports on the president’s rare responsibilities from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
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Gap within the gender gap
By Steve Kornacki
In last year’s presidential election, white voters made up an estimated 71% of national voters. This is a figure that has been lower for decades as the country’s population diversified, but is more than six times the share of black and Hispanic voters (11% each), and six times more than almost 25 times (3%) of Asian voters.
White votes are usually understood to be Republican-friendly, with a noticeable gap between gender and education.
However, there are more useful and clear ways to understand the politics of white voters. This is clear in a new NBC News poll. This is called a gap within a gap.
This represents the hierarchy of educational gaps (which exploded during the Trump era), in addition to the more established gender gaps. Combining these results in larger gaps and two specific groups focus.
On one end is a white man with no degree from a four-year university. This is generally a blue-collar demographic, and is now deeply aligned with Trump, opposed to progressive politics. On the other end is a white woman with at least four years of university degree. This is a wealthier demographic, competing to the left, particularly on cultural issues and straightforwardly opposed to President Donald Trump.
Both groups pack a terrifying punch. Last year, 18% of all voters were non-university white men, and 17% were white women with a college education. And they came to exist in polar regions opposite the political and cultural universes.
This is vividly captured in the NBC News polls. Ask the basic question: Do voters view Trump positively or negatively? Of all voters, regardless of race, gender or class, 46% have a positive view and 49% have a negative view. Among white voters alone, Trump is a little more popular. 52% have positive opinions compared to 45% who have negative opinions.
Meanwhile, 69% of white men without a degree look at Trump aggressively, with only 28% looking at him negatively. And among Caucasian women of a degree, 29% are positive and 67% are negative due to a 38-point net negative. This would be a 79-point net rating gap between these two groups regarding their perception of Trump.
The split is just as big when it comes to various aspects of Trump’s work performance.
Details from NBC News Voting: American voters are deeply divided by Bridget Bowman into DEI programs and political correctness
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Secretary John Roberts opposes a call to the Dominant Judge for Judges on Trump
By Lawrence Harley
Supreme Court Justice John Roberts issued an unusual statement today, blaming President Donald Trump and his allies for calling for the judge who controlled the administration on the bluff each.
“For over two centuries, it has been established that each is not an appropriate response to differences in opinion over judicial decisions. To that end, there is a normal appeal review process,” Roberts said in a statement.
Trump’s allies are calling for various judges to be fired each in the first months of his second term to hamper control policies.
But Trump himself raised interests on Tuesday, calling for a blast for US District Judge James Boasberg after he stopped Venezuelan immigrants from being deported.
“This judge should be bounced each like many bent judges, as I am forced to appear before!!!” Trump posted.
Shortly after Roberts issued the statement, R-Texas Rep. Brandon Gill wrote in an X post that he had introduced an article on each of the bullets against Boasberg. He allegedly committed a pervertible crime by issuing a temporary restraining order to the administration on a new call to wartime laws called the alien enemy laws to deport certain illegal immigrants.
A small number of federal judges had been in office in the past, not as a result of individual decisions they made, but due to serious misconduct during their tenure, including taking bribes.
The federal judge has frequently stepped in on Trump’s agenda since re-instituting in January and began implementing a series of aggressive policies that raised several new legal issues. It has led to an increasingly frequent call for the administration and wider Magazine bases to raise ammo each and concerns within the judiciary.
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