God-given right to free speech. Whichever road voters ultimately
choose on Election Day, it’s likely to define America for years and possibly decades to come.
Those two roads diverge so sharply that
future historians are likely to single out the 2024 election as the choice that made all the difference. In an election cycle that’s already seen
more plot twists than a Tom Clancy thrill- er, Newsmax spoke with top analysts to get their thoughts on which way voters are leaning, and which candidate is landing the best political blows in the vital swing states that will ultimately decide the elec- tion. Now, as the campaigns race to the finish
line of what’s already become the most top- sy-turvy election ever, this much is clear: Both sides sincerely believe that the fate of the nation hangs in the balance.
Trump Transformed GOP One undeniable truth is already estab- lished: Trump has redefined what it means to be a Republican. The world hasn’t witnessed a paradigm
shift like this in American politics since at least 1980, when Ronald Reagan trounced Jimmy Carter by appealing to the disaf-
fected members of Carter’s own party, who came to be known as “Reagan Democrats.” Based on the latest Gallup polling,
about half of Republicans — 46% — consid- er themselves either working class or lower class, economically. Only 35% of Demo- crats say the same. And nearly two-thirds of Democrats — 62% — identify as either upper or middle class. So whatever pejorative label Democrats
care to use — MAGA Republicans, deplo- rables, or “bitter clingers” — Trump vot- ers are the everyday Americans, including union workers, who work and care for their families and struggle to get ahead. And their support for Trump has blos-
somed in a way that has made even union bosses take note. “The American people aren’t stupid,”
declared Teamsters Union President Sean O’Brien in June, marking the first time a Teamsters Union president has ever addressed the Republican National Committee. “They know the system is broken. We all know how Washington is run.” Long gone are the days when the modi-
fier “country club” routinely preceded the term “Republican.” For decades, working-class Americans watched as local factories closed and their
They also want to defend the right of middle- and lower-class voters to say what they mean and mean what they say in the public square, by protecting their God-given right to free speech.
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