Trump Is Harnessing Voter Anxiety About Electric Vehicles

  • 📰 TIME
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 66 sec. here
  • 3 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 30%
  • Publisher: 53%

Energy Energy Headlines News

Energy Energy Latest News,Energy Energy Headlines

A new poll finds 44% of American voters hold a negative view of electric vehicles. Trump is likely to bring up EVs at the June 27 debate.

The actual roadmap for 2024 might have moved when you were not looking. Maybe—and it’s a big maybe, admittedly—the biggest detour in politics right now is parked in the driveway.

The voters most turned off by talks of Tesla Cybertrucks and Chevy Bolts? Young voters, voters without college degrees, and Latinos, according to newTheir surveys find a surprising 44% of the American electorate hold a negative view of electric vehicles. The numbers are about the same for voters in battleground states of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, and Georgia.

Both perspectives, to be clear, are incomplete at best and shading many of the facts. Americans bought more than 1 million electric vehicles last year, but that representsof new auto registrations and the West Coast continues to dominate the market. This helps explain why Donald Trump keeps talking about slamming the brakes on a transition to EVs, a point he is likely to throw at Biden directly at this month’s highly anticipated presidential debate.

That’s not to say Climate Voters can be ignored, strategists say. They are likely to be highly educated, high-propensity voters who favor Biden by a solid 96-point margin. The problem is there just aren’t enough of them to counter their intellectual inverse, a group lumped together in Third Way research as Economy First Voters. This conservative bloc tends to be heavily tilted toward Latinos, women, younger voters, and those who lack a college degree.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 93. in ENERGY

Energy Energy Latest News, Energy Energy Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Jimmy Thelin harnessing Aberdeen FC energy from ElfsborgThe Swede has two matches left in charge before he officially takes charge at Pittodrie on June 3.
Source: Daily_Record - 🏆 9. / 89 Read more »