Why school choice could deliver Trump the swing states

Former President Donald Trump promoted school choice at hiꦦs campaign stop in deep-blue Milwaukee last w🤪eek. This was a smart move.

Milwaukee is home to the longest-standing modern-day private school-cho🍸ice initiative in the country. About 30,000 students benefit from the program, which allows their taxpayer-funded education dollars t🍸o follow them to the public or private school of their family’s choosing.

ꦬThe initiative has been a success base✨d on demand, and research shows improvements in test , , and even .

Tens of thousands of families acro🎃ss the rest♓ of the state also benefit from various private school-choice options.

The latest Morning Consult finds that nearly three-quarters of Wis🎀consin school parents support private school choice in the form of education savings accounts.

The for education freedom crosses party lines, and students benefiting from private school choice in Wisconsin come from low-income househ🍒olds.

School choice is — as Trump declared last week — “the civil-r꧙ights𒁃 issue of our age.”

It can also help Rꦫepublicans make inroads with voters who have otherwise backed Democrats in the past.

In Florida, for example, “school-choice moms” helped Ron DeSantis narrowly his 2018 gub🤪ernatorial election.

Exit polling showed DeSantis overperformed with black mothers after his Democratic opponent, Andrew Gillum, opposed the state’s private school-choice program that had already helped more than 100,000 students who were disproportionately nonwhite and from low-income house🐈holds.

Wisconsin is not an outlier. Arizona passed uniꦇversal school choice 🐠in 2022, and now about 80,000 students benefit from its education-savings-account initiative.

So many Grand Canyꦿon State families demanded scꦺhool choice that the government website crashed when it first opened up applications.

North Carolina passed universal school choice in✃ 2023, and the Legislature had to pass a bill this year to clear a waitlist of abou🥂t 55,000 students by funding their scholarships.

Even Pennsylvania’s Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro has already figured out school choice is a political winner in his state. He seemed like Kamala Harris’ obvious pick for vice president. He is popular with Pen🦋nsylvania voters and hails from a swing state that’s a must-win for Democrats.

But the teachers unions were not g🍷oing to let th⛦at happen. Why not?

Shortly before his election in 2022, Shapiro wisely changed his education to include support for private school choice. By embracing educational ♏freedom publicly, he was able to deflect accusations of hypocrisy from his Republican opponent, Doug Mastriano, who highlighted the fact the Democrat went to private school himself.

Not to mention 75% of school parents school choice in Pennsylvania, and more thꦬan 60,000 scholarships are awarded to K-12 students to attend private schools in the state each year.

In factജ, Shapiro went on Fox News just last year to reiterate his for sc♊hool choice.

Josh Shapiro read the tea leaves. Buꦡt it’s too late for Kama𒉰la Harris to do the same.

She 𒉰instead went with the teachers union’s preferred candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, showing parents she is not on their side.

She is against sc💮hool choice and an enemy of parental rights 💦in education. Donald Trump understands parents are the primary decisionmakers for their children.

Trump would be wise to♎ expose Harris’ anti-parent policies from now until Election Day.

The latest nat🅠ional by America’s most accurate pollster the former president beating the vice president on the issue of🎃 education by 3 points.

That re꧙sult is a huge win Republicans shouldn’t ignore, as Democrats have held a double-digit advantage on education 🌳for decades.

We all witnessed what🅘 happened to former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe when Republican Glenn Youngkin exposed his anti-parent positions.

Kamala Harris’ obedience to the special interests that own the Democratic Party may c🐽ost her in November.

Corey DeAngelis is a senior fellow at the American Culture Project and the national bestselling author of “The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools.”