ALBANY, New York — Blue collar cred for any candidate helps. Making voters think they’re part of a financially struggling working class is the newest playbook.
These efforts — meant to empathize with voters’ cost-of-living woes that have now enveloped people who earn more than six figures — are playing out across the country as both parties race to define who is truly hurting.
In New York, where left-flank candidates are beating institutional Democrats, this dynamic is set against the backdrop of voter fears that their generation will not experience the same sort of financial comfort their parents enjoyed…