Trump voters’ sense that they occupy an increasingly tenuous place in the nation has ebbed as quickly as Clinton voters’ faith in the progress they’ve made, a new survey finds

One of the starkest fault lines last year between voters who supported Donald Trump and those who backed his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton lay in their answers to a question that wasn’t explicitly political: whether they felt life had gotten better or worse for “people like them” in the last 50 years.

By a 70-point margin, Trump supporters said that life had gotten worse, not better, according to a Pew Research survey in August. By a 40-point margin, Clinton supporters said it had improved.

The gap between each candidate’s backers was wider than the divides along a host of other demographics, including gender, race, age and education.

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