Can the GOP Become the Party of the Working Class?

Rubio attends an event with then Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis in November 2018. (Jeff J. Mitchell/Getty Images)
Marco Rubio is betting on it.
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“GOP voters are working class Americans and they are changing the party.”
That’s the message that Marco Rubio emphasized when we spoke on the phone a few days ago. But the line could have just as easily come from a host of Republicans—Tom Cotton, Ron DeSantis, Josh Hawley, J.D. Vance—who believe that their political future and that of their party is dep…
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