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Perhaps it was the degradation of our educational system by liberal policy that has brought our young people to the level of ignorance they suffer today.

That's rich, and laughable. Trump is clearly one of the least educated, most willfully ignorant, intellectually lazy, dumbest presidents of the 20th century.

One cannot listen to him, speaking with a grammar school level vocabulary, repeating himself ad nauseum, without realizing that he was elected largely by people with similar shortcomings.

The statement 'he says what I think' is the most damming indictment of both Trump and those of his supporters who made such a statement.

No one who accepts Trump's semiliteracy, historical illiteracy, economic illiteracy, and junk science pronouncements can make any credible claims for the quality of their own education, much less opine credibly about some vague liberal policies degrading education.


Who's Behind Trump's Big Deficit? College-Educated Whites and Seniors

David Wasserman

July 24, 2020

https://cookpolitical.com/analysis/national/national-politics/whos-behind-trumps-big-deficit-college-educated-whites-and

In an average of nine live-interview national surveys conducted since the start of June, Biden is clobbering Trump 58 percent to 37 percent among whites with college degrees, more than double Clinton's 51 percent to 42 percent lead among that group in 2016 according to the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, a nationally representative sample of 64,600 adults. Biden has also modestly cut Trump's lead among whites without degrees to 55 percent to 37 percent, down from 59 percent to 35 percent in 2016.

Trump's erosion among college-educated whites helps explain why Biden is polling so competitively in Texas and Georgia, traditionally GOP states with vast numbers of suburban white professionals who supported Trump in 2016. It also tracks with congressional district-level polling showing Trump's numbers weighing Republican candidates down in traditionally GOP-leaning suburbs near places like Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Omaha.

A silver lining for Trump has always been that whites without college degrees, by far his best group, are overrepresented in battleground states - especially in Great Lakes states like Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. But they are gradually shrinking as a share of the electorate everywhere, as the nation becomes more diverse and college-educated.

Census estimates suggest that in 2020, the number of voting-eligible whites without college degrees could decline seven percent versus 2016. Meanwhile, the number of voting-eligible college-educated whites is poised to increase 16 percent and the number of eligible non-whites is on track to increase 11 percent. In addition, the number of eligible voters 65 and older is on track to surge by 13 percent as more Boomers age into that category.

Unless Trump can reverse his backslide with college-educated whites and seniors, the demographic math will heavily favor Biden winning the White House.