jerry falwell jr. said the same thing at the republican national convention. blue collar in this instance has nothing to do with wealth, but with cultural identity. and donald trump was very, very good at using -- at least in the campaign. his policies have not really followed through on that but the way he talks about -- he talked about coal mining. he has the very famous picture of him in the truck outside of the white house. when he talks about jobs, he's talking about manufacturing jobs. he's talking about blue collar work. jobs that don't exist the way they used to but that's the sort of mindset he has and people hear it and respond to it. host: generally speaking and i know it's a monolithic group, but the white working class voter, if you look at the voting trends, went for lyndon johnson in 1964, richard nixon in 1972, went for reagan in 1980 and 1984, the so-called reagan democrats, then back to clinton in 1992, barack obama in 2008 and generally speaking donald trump in 2016. is that correct? timothy: for the most part. one of the things to really un

with former president jimmy carter at liberty university, school founded by conservative pastor jerry falwell. devos atlowed by betsy ave maria university. and mark meadows at patrick and -- henry college and keisha bottoms at georgia tech. he can find all the commencement speeches we have covered at our website. [applause] mr. carter: thank you very much. i enjoyed that very much. i want to say anybody here who does not believe in prayer, just look at the rain coming down. if it hadn't been for prayer, i think we hadn't have had rain this morning. thank you for that. for dr. hawkins who is retiring now of this great university and secretary carson who is here who i have admired for longtime. the president and all of his family, to the students who are graduating, to the parent to -- the parents who have supported them, and all the rest of you, this is a wonderful crowd. jerry told me before we came here that it is even bigger than it was last year. [applause] i do not know if president trump will admit that or not. i'm truly grateful for the invitation to speak. to this wonderful graduating

with former president jimmy carter at liberty university, school founded by conservative pastor jerry falwell. devos atlowed by betsy ave maria university. and mark meadows at patrick and -- henry college and keisha bottoms at georgia tech. he can find all the commencement speeches we have covered at our website.