Posted on 05/17/2024 12:33:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
Some of President Joe Biden’s 2020 voters named inflation, foreign policy and illegal immigration as their main reasons for considering backing former President Donald Trump, instead, in November, The New York Times reported on Friday.
The NYT/Siena College survey released on Monday across Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania found that 14% of those who said they backed Biden in 2020 won’t do so this cycle. The outlet spoke with some of the Biden defectors included in the poll, with some planning to vote for Trump despite qualms with his personality.
Frederick Westbrook, a retired hotel worker in Las Vegas, told the NYT that voting for Biden last cycle was “the biggest mistake of my life.” The retiree added that while he still believes Trump has “a big mouth” and is “not a nice person,” his financial situation has made him consider backing the former president.
“Everything is just about the economy,” Westbrook said. “I don’t really trust Donald Trump at all. I just think housing, food, my car, my insurance, every single piece of living has gone up.”
Amelia Earwood, a 47-year-old safety trainer at the U.S. Postal Service, was also critical of Trump, but said she’s “voting on his policies, and I think that he could straighten this country out, while Biden made a ginormous mess out of it.”
The Georgian cited inflation, illegal immigration and Biden’s recently delaying sending arms to Israel as reasons for her dissatisfaction.
Virginia Faris of Wisconsin told the outlet she believes “Biden’s policies of overspending and printing money” are attributable for her children’s financial struggles. The 54-year-old plans to vote for Trump.
A 25-year-old marketing professional in Atlanta, Jaredd Johnson, also has reservations about Trump, but told the outlet he’ll support him in November.
“Our conversations are suddenly less about what’s happening overseas and more about how we are struggling here, too,” Johnson said.
Christopher Sheffield, a 61-year-old counselor for veterans in Georgia, will similarly back Trump due to the conflict overseas, according to the outlet. Sheffield told the outlet that Trump’s stance on race is concerning, he plans to vote for him.
“When I look at [Biden], he looks weak,” Sheffield told the NYT. “With North Korea, Putin, and all those boys ready to act, I think they will be a little bit more reluctant to challenge Trump than they would with Biden.”
Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told the Daily Caller News Foundation in a statement that “Joe Biden’s campaign should be terrified.”
“Joe Biden is so weak, and Democrats are in such disarray, that not only is President Trump winning every traditional battleground state, but longtime blue states such as Minnesota, Virginia, and New Jersey are now in play,” said Leavitt. “President Trump is on offense with a winning message and growing his movement every single day.”
The NYT survey found Trump leading Biden in all of the swing states polled except for Michigan, where the president was ahead by just one point among likely voters. The former president was ahead by 13 points in Nevada, nine points in Georgia, six points in Arizona, three points in Pennsylvania and one point in Wisconsin.
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to include a statement from the Trump campaign.
Interesting, nobody mentions Joe’s mental state.
81 million? With the “new” inhabitants it could be a 100 million this time. Grrrrrrr!
They don't act like it. Everything the voters hate, they're doubling down on.
What do they know that the voters don't?
All these Biden voters are getting a lesson from Mr Obvious. Personally, even if they voted for Trump in 2024, I would never trust them. They were too stupid to know what’s going on the real world.
The Fix is in.....................
What stance on race?
PLEASE don’t prove you are stupid nd vote for this fraud Biden.
So by my math, if you believe the laughable assertion that Joe Biden received 81 million votes, a 14% defection rate would equate to an 11 million vote swing in Trumps favor.
Exactly. The fact that they even voted for Biden is telling.
I was about to ask the same thing.
In all of those states listed, 14% equates to 1,784,173 votes.
Gonna have to turbocharge the cheat machine now.
Doesn’t matter. He’ll get all the “votes” he needs to win.
I’m always amazed that there are so many “undecideds” out there. Really?
Then I observe how people drive and realize that obliviousness is a lifestyle for some people.
Oblivtards.
“They were too stupid to know what’s going on the real world”.
The ones in this story spelled it out pretty well. But if they weren’t being hurt at the personal level, they wouldn’t have a clue of what’s going on in the real world.
When people feel the pain, they wake up. Otherwise, they have tunnel vision and can’t see the big picture.
Too many people have that opinion because they listen to mainstream media only, and are very much uninformed/misinformed as to what is going on in this country, and even less informed as to what is happening worldwide.
But when it comes to hardships, they quickly learn that the perceived mean, nasty, bad orange man, did provide a better life for them around their limited world exposure. It's the economy stupid. How many times does that have be stated? 😋
They’re all standing right up there in a line - Jill, WH doctors, Cabinet Secretaries, aides, handlers and Democrat principals all saying, “Nope, ain’t a thing wrong with him. He’s as sane and cogent as can possibly be!”
It reminds be back during the time of Slick and Monica and Slick said “I ain’t had no sex with that woman, ML.” There were FOUR Cabinet Secretaries who all stood up in a line in the Rose Garden and if front of the Press and everybody said, “We believe President Clinton.”
So true
🙂👍
Editor’s Note: This article has been updated to include a statement from the Trump campaign.
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