WORLDSTORY 639· JULY 28, 2026

Trump moves to reclaim blue-collar ground as midterm support fades

Support for President Donald Trump is slipping among blue-collar voters, a term for working-class Americans in manufacturing and manual trades, and the White House is making a deliberate push to reverse that ahead of November's midterm…

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