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But the set piece — a liberal politician standing in front of heavy machinery, talking blue-collar jobs in a county that backed President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 5 — appeared to be a response to the election, in which Democrats took a drubbing after critics said they were out of touch on economic issues.

Bozeman, who spent four seasons in Baltimore and is the starting center, says the similarities are apparent down to the smallest details, such as practicing during the off week or wearing custom blue-collar work shirts.

With freaking Donald Trump now having won the presidency twice, openness is emerging to candidates who don’t feel like members of the so-called establishment—i.e. mavericks, people who have blue-collar backgrounds or those who might be considered a bit too revolutionary in the kinds of law-finance-tech circles that Kamala Harris comes from.

College-educated professionals, younger people, blacks, Latinos and other ethnic minorities, and blue-collar workers were part of a “coalition of the ascendant”.

This year, Trump supplemented his gains with the blue-collar workers by also cutting into the Democratic margins among young, Latino and black voters.