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That's misleading. Working class whites are 2/3 Trump but it doesn't necessarily mean the ones on welfare are these 2/3, but most importantly it's lumping social security with SNAP.Republican rubes voting against their own self-interest is their way. That image you posted earlier is allegedly from a poll 2004-2007 that I can't find. I can find articles like this, though:
Federal Anti-Poverty Programs Primarily Help the GOP's Base
Republicans want to shrink government. But their core voters benefit from assistance, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the most.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/02/gop-base-poverty-snap-social-security/516861/
In general people get SS benefits because they've contributed for a long time, while other forms of welfare are given to healthy, young people that cannot keep a job or women that have children with random men.
It's unlikely even the GOP would want to cut SS to old people.