Of all the post-election analysis, it’s interesting that no one seems to be talking much about wealth or income
I saw an FT headline that reads "Poorer voters flocked to Trump”
But that’s not true, Not by these statistics:
statista.com/statistics/153529…
The very lowest incomes favored Harris slightly, as did the highest
It was the mid-to-low incomes that “flocked” to Trump, not the very poorest
That seems important
U.S. presidential election exit polls: share of votes by income 2024
According to exit polling in ten key states of the 2024 presidential election in the United States, 46 percent of voters with a 2023 household income of 30,000 U.S.Statista
