GOP Rep. Banks: Important to 'Cement' the Relationship Between Republicans, Working-Class Voters

“The reason I wrote the memo to Leader McCarthy a couple of weeks ago is because it became clear, it’s become clearer and clearer to me that Donald Trump gave the Republican Party a really important gift,” he said.

Donald Trump did something unprecedented in cementing a relationship with blue-collar, working-class voters and brought them into the Republican fold in a way that I hope Republicans will soon recognize so that we can maintain it.”.

You see that in political donations, and you see that in the voting behaviors of working-class voters, and I believe, Steve, it’s important now more than ever for Republicans to cement this relationship and make our party, the party of working-class voters, permanently.”.