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DES MOINES, Iowa — Working-class voters delivered the Republican Party to Donald Trump. College-educated conservatives may ensure that he keeps it. Often overlooked in an increasingly blue-collar party, voters with a college degree remain at the heart of the lingering Republican cold war over abortion, foreign policy and cultural issues. These voters, who have long been more skeptical of Trump, have quietly powered his remarkable political recovery inside the party — a turnaround over the past y ....
Blue-collar white voters make up Donald Trump’s base. But his political resurgence has been fueled largely by Republicans from the other end of the socioeconomic scale. ....