A recent poll of voters in battleground states showed that former President Trump is ahead of President Biden in six battleground states that he narrowly lost four years ago.
Now, some voters who supported Biden in 2020 are looking ahead to the 2024 election and are explaining why they want President Trump to take office again.
Frederick Westbrook, a former Las Vegas hotel worker, said in an interview with the New York Times that voting for Biden to oust President Trump was “the biggest mistake of my life.”
“As a black American, I felt he was doing an injustice,” Westbrook said of Trump. “He’s got a big mouth and he’s not a nice guy.” But Westbrook told the Times that while his views on Trump haven’t changed over the past four years, he thinks the cost of living has risen too much under Biden’s watch. Ta.
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President Biden and former President Donald Trump, the Democratic and Republican candidates for the 2024 presidential election, will face off in an unusual presidential rematch this November. (Getty Images)
“It’s all about economics,” Westbrook said. He currently drives for Lyft to support his fixed income in retirement. “I don’t trust Donald Trump at all. I just think the cost of living has gone up: housing, food, cars, insurance, everything.”
A poll released Monday by a New York newspaper found that 14% of survey respondents say Americans are no better off now than they were four years ago, second only to Biden. Even people who said they would not vote are sharing it. The Times, Siena College, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The findings and subsequent interviews reported in the Times on Friday suggested dissatisfaction with the economy and the Israeli-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, as well as worsening support for Biden among young, black and Hispanic voters. There is a risk that the president’s Democratic Party government will collapse.” Union. ”
Jared Johnson, a 25-year-old marketing worker in Atlanta, told the Times he had hoped Biden would return the country to pre-pandemic normalcy, but that hasn’t happened. He said he has reservations about Trump but plans to vote for the presumptive Republican nominee in November.
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Voters told The New York Times they were dissatisfied with Biden’s handling of the economy, illegal immigration and foreign crises, including wars in Ukraine and Gaza. (Getty Images)
Mr Johnson said he understood the importance of supporting Ukraine and Israel, providing aid to Gaza and helping migrants, but that conversations with friends and family “suddenly made me wonder what was going on overseas.” “We started talking about how we’re struggling here too, rather than talking about how we’re doing.”
Christopher Sheffield, a 61-year-old veterans counselor from Thomasville, Georgia, told the Times that whatever concerns he has about President Trump’s attitudes toward race, he has no doubt that he’s worried about his concerns overseas, which could lead to another world war. He said it was not as important as the crisis.
“I’m African American, so of course I’m concerned about racism,” he told the paper. “But guess what? I’ve been dealing with this my whole life.”
Mr. Sheffield said Mr. Biden is “a good man.” “But when I look at him, he looks weak. With North Korea and Putin and all those boys ready to act, they’re going to challenge Trump compared to Biden. “I’m going to be a little bit more reluctant,” he said, adding that he would vote for Trump in November.
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Amelia Arwood told the New York Times that she thinks Trump is a “terrible human being.” But she said, “I’m voting for his policies. While Biden has thrown this country into chaos, I think he can fix this country.” (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Fox News political analyst Janno Caldwell said it’s not surprising that black voters like Westbrook and Sheffield are turning away from Biden and toward Trump.
“Experts and analysts view black voters’ support for Trump as an anomaly, and they are wrong,” Caldwell said. “In 2020, many Black voters were intimidated into voting for Biden by the media and prominent cultural figures like Charlemagne with promises and prophecies of a presidency that would benefit the Black community. are now realizing that they have been fooled by the left,” and the media too. ”
“Given that the economic situation under the Biden administration is much worse than under the Trump administration, we have no choice but to support someone who actually got the job done and gave many people a sense of financial security.” “Many people feel that way,” he added.
Other voters are concerned about persistent inflation (which reached 3.4% in April, down from a high of 9% in 2022 but still well above the Federal Reserve’s 2% target). He spoke to the Times about Biden’s decision to withhold arms shipments to Israel, illegal immigration, and Biden’s decision to withhold arms shipments to Israel. It shows that big changes are needed in America.
“All of our core values are gone. I’m not happy at all,” said Amelia Arwood, 47, a safety trainer for the U.S. Postal Service in Georgia.
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She told the Times that she thinks Trump is a “terrible person,” but added, “I vote for his policies, and while Biden has messed this country up so much, he could fix this country.” I think he will,” he said.
The Trump and Biden campaigns did not respond to requests for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
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