VOTING BLOCS DEFINITION SERIES

And after winning Ohio by 8 points against Clinton, heвЂ™s effectively tied with Biden in the polls now. Trump is further behind in the polls in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin in 2020 than he was in 2016. These voters are crucial in the Rust Belt states of Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.Д«ut rather than cementing his relationship with these voters, which would have helped his reelection bid, Trump seems to be seeing the opposite happen. But they also saw Trump as a businessman who could restore AmericaвЂ™s luster. Some of them just didnвЂ™t like Hillary Clinton. Those people, many of whom had voted for Barack Obama, swung for Trump. Manufacturing workers from the industrial Midwest are remembered as the critical voting bloc in 2016. That wouldnвЂ™t have been the reaction four years ago. And heвЂ™s noticed something these past few weeks in his hometown of Clyde, Ohio, population 6,213: Some people, working guys like him, seem happy to see his swag supporting the Democrat. So now Noftz wears his Biden 2020 hat to work heвЂ™s got a sign in his car window. Caitlin McNaney for Vox Clyde, Ohio, is located in the northwestern part of the state that swung dramatically toward Trump in the 2016 election. New polls show the president and Biden tied with those voters. Trump won whites without a college degree in Ohio by 24 points in 2016. A lot of people in the world are really suffering.вЂќ вЂњAs a Christian, I also care about other things: justice, people who are poor, people who are sick,вЂќ he told me.

The Trump administration did deliver on some issues he cares about, but Noftz believes there are bigger principles at stake. He was aghast that Trump said he knew more than the medical experts. вЂњThen the Covid thing hit,вЂќ Noftz said, вЂњand I saw the way he behaved.вЂќ He liked the anti-abortion policies the president had pursued. Last year, Noftz actually thought he might vote for Trump in 2020. вЂњAnd IвЂ™ve been really disappointed about that. вЂњI was kind of hopeful, now that heвЂ™s won, and heвЂ™s through being rude, I thought he might be a competent leader,вЂќ Noftz told me. But he was still optimistic when Trump won. In 2016, he really didnвЂ™t want Hillary Clinton to be president - and he wasnвЂ™t sure about Trump - so he wrote in Marco Rubio.

Robert Noftz is a voter Donald Trump should have been able to win in the 2020 election: HeвЂ™s an anti-abortion Christian who works at a major appliance factory in northwestern Ohio.Д«ut Noftz, a lifelong Republican, is voting for Joe Biden instead. You can read Ella NilsenвЂ™s story on suburban women here and Li ZhouвЂ™s story on Arizona youth here.

VOTING BLOCS DEFINITION SERIES

This is the second in a series of stories looking at the people who could cast the most decisive votes in the 2020 election.

Voting blocs definition