In a Trump-country squeaker, some Democrats see a blueprint
President Trump’s surprise victory in the rust belt – and thus the presidential election – 16 months ago left many Democrats despondent that they had “lost” white working-class America.
But in politics, the world never sits still. Democrat Conor Lamb’s apparent narrow win Tuesday in a special House election in western Pennsylvania, in a district that Mr. Trump had won by almost 20 points, shows that there’s a way for the party to win those voters back: Champion their issues.
Workers’ rights, wages, and protecting pensions, Social Security,
‘A wake-up call’Organized labor’s clout
