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NanceGreggs

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12. I don't know that I'd characterize it ...
Thu Apr 25, 2019, 09:35 PM
Apr 2019

… as “smarter”, but rather as more aware.

I think a lot of Trump voters have woken up to the fact that what they were promised and what they got are vastly different things, e.g. a middle-class tax cut that went to billionaires, a healthcare plan that’s ‘better and less expensive than Obamacare, and will cover everyone’, jobs in the coal industry coming back, etc.

Farmers are going under due to tariffs, wages are stagnant, and despite Trump’s bragging about the ‘great economy’, it hasn’t really improved for the middle-class.

You know how it is – if you want to lose Republican voters, just punch them in the pocketbook.

I think there are also a lot of former Trump supporters who are very uneasy about kids in cages, the endless lies, the damning info in the Mueller report, and so on.

If we had a do-over of 2016, there are Trumpsters who would switch their vote to HRC as a result of what they’ve seen and heard over the past two years. On the other hand, I can’t imagine a single Hillary supporter switching their vote to Trump.

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