Rev. Barber Breaks Down Why Democrats Must Engage With Low-Wealth Voters

'There's not a state in this country where poor and low-wage voters do not have at least 30% of the electorate... So you can't win by ignoring poor and low-wealth votes.' RevDrBarber

In future elections, said the co-chair of the Poor People's Campaign, Democrats must"focus clearly and intensely on poor and low-wealth voters who tend to, when they vote, vote progressive if they're targeted."The Rev. Dr. William J.

"Those persons making under $30,000 a year voted 12 points higher for Democrats, according to exit polls," he told Ali Velshi on"There's not a state in this country where poor and low-wage voters do not have at least 30% of the electorate," Barber added."And in every state where the margin of victories is within 3%, poor and low-wealth voters have over 40% of the electorate. So you can't win by ignoring poor and low-wealth votes.

Barber's comments come weeks after Democrats maintained a narrow majority in the U.S. Senate and lost control of the House, with someearlier this month, Ocasio-Cortez is among the progressives who have called on Democratic leaders to look closely at which candidates were successful, pointing out that U.S. Sen.-elect John Fetterman ran a very different campaign than fellow Rust Belt candidate Rep. Tim Ryan , who lost a Senate race to Republican J.D. Vance.

"In Arizona, in 2020, for instance, the number of poor and low-wealth voters who didn't vote was 756,000, and the margin of victory was only 10,000 votes." While Ryan was one of the most vocal critics of President Joe Biden's student debt relief plan, Fetterman adamantly supports student loan debt cancellation and drew national attention to his campaign by taking aim at his GOP opponent's

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