30 Issues: Who’s The Party of The Working Class?

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 28, 2022

Republicans have been making inroads with the Democrats' traditional base of working class voters and people of color. Bryan Mena, reporter with The Wall Street Journal's economics team, and Elena Schneider, national political reporter at Politico, join to discuss who the working class vote will go to this coming election.

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