Non-college-educated whites' affinity for the Republican Party was growing even before the rise of Donald Trump's political career -- and it has grown stronger since, according to Gallup Poll Senior Editor Jeff Jones' latest analysis. Jones joins the podcast to discuss what this means, and later, The Washington Post's national correspondent Philip Bump unpacks these and other Gallup data.
White Americans without college degrees have been aligned with the Republican Party for most of the past two decades, but their affiliation with the GOP has grown stronger during the Trump era.
Differences in Trump's job approval by gender, education and other characteristics appear to stem more from the party leanings of certain subgroups than his appeal to members of those groups.