Trump’s Big Tent

For years, the GOP establishment has prattled on endlessly about needing to be a “big tent” to attract more voters, especially minority voters. But their way of “expanding the tent” almost always involved sacrificing conservative values.

Donald Trump expanded the GOP coalition without compromising conservative principles.

The left has been doing a lot of horrible things to the country. But their strategy of identity politics -- dividing us into tribes (especially by race and gender) to keep us at each other’s throats for their own political benefit -- is the worst.

They put that strategy on steroids in this race against Donald Trump. Unlike every other Republican who ran from it, Trump didn’t back down. Instead, he ran into the teeth of it.

The left spent billions of dollars calling Trump a racist. He got 25% of the black male vote and flipped a heavily black county in North Carolina.

The left spent billions of dollars calling Trump a xenophobe because he wants to secure the border. He won 54% of Hispanic men. He became the first Republican presidential candidate to win Florida’s Miami-Dade County in 30 years. All the left’s predictions of demography destroying the GOP were blown up last night.

The left spent billions of dollars saying Donald Trump hates women. He did much better with female voters than anyone expected, while Harris struggled with a gender gap among men.

How many times have you heard someone say, “Donald Trump is destroying the GOP’s chances?” Under his leadership, Florida, Iowa, and Ohio – once brutal battleground states – are now deep Red. Moreover, he has demolished the “Blue Wall” twice. Trump is expanding the GOP’s base in the Electoral College.