Bridget sits down with Patrick Ruffini, a Republican pollster and author of Party of the People: Inside the Multiracial Populist Coalition Remaking the GOP. The book explores the transformative political landscape of recent American elections, challenging previous narratives about the Republican Party's demographics and highlighting a significant multi-racial shift in voter preferences, particularly noting how Donald Trump expanded Republican support among African American and Latino voters. Patrick and Bridget discuss what he got right about the 2024 election that everyone else missed, Gen Z's political realignment, suburban women's concerns, working-class voter migrations, the impact of COVID, identity politics agendas in schools, and gender identity debates. They cover the breakdown of traditional political paradigms, why 2020 was supposed to be a return to normal but was actually the opposite, why it felt okay to openly support Trump in this election, the yearning for strong leadership and stability, why Kamala wasn’t a good candidate, why it would have been a disaster for her to go on Joe Rogan’s podcast, and the key polling question that indicated the true direction America was leaning: “How are your neighbors are voting?”
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