'Disgusted I voted for him'

[struggle4progress]

By Julia Terruso
The Philadelphia Inquirer
May 31, 2020
Updated 7 hrs ago

PHILADELPHIA — Bob Banion has been a Republican all his life. A 68-year-old sales manager from Harleysville, Pa., he voted for Donald Trump in 2016. But he’s felt his political center shifting over the last four years — along with his support for the president.

“As you get older in life, you start to move toward the left, when you’re thinking about health care, when you’re thinking about other people’s rights and futures,” Banion said. “Older people believe in class, believe in dignity, believe in doing the right thing. And you see all (Trump’s) doing to break that down. I am really disgusted I voted for him.”

Trump .. may have a lurking problem. National polling averages show he’s in a relative dead heat with Joe Biden among voters over 65, a group he won by 10 points in 2016 ...

In a Morning Consult poll from April, voters 65 and older said defeating the virus was more important than healing the economy, counter to Trump’s recent push to reopen states. Trump’s approval rating with seniors also plummeted 20 points from March to April ...

https://www.yoursun.com/elections/disgusted-i-voted-for-him-some-swing-state-seniors-are-turning-on-trump/article_594d9afd-30a4-5a7c-a2c6-50cbf617e5f5.html

[rusty quoin]

1. I can never forgive them for voting for him.

[Freedomofspeech]

9. Neither can I.

[exboyfil]

2. Write an article like this and fail to bring up

Payroll withholding? Every year there is a moratorium on withholding brings the zeroing out of the SS Trust Fund by five years. Right now it is gone in 15 years.

[JI7]

3. Im disgusted he voted for him also. But im glad he realizes it was disgusting

and isn't demanding others reach out to him.

[Cha]

4. Good for him. Polls I've read Biden is AHEAD with

older folks.. like myself.

[sfstaxprep]

5. Yeah, Whatever Moron....

Just vote for Joe Biden.

[OnDoutside]

6. As you get older you move to the right, not left, but this selfish

asshole is only moving to the left because Trump's policies are affecting him, not his fellow citizens.

[Joinfortmill]

7. Trump had to turn full on monster

Trump never hid who he was. It was always out there in full view I, for one, won't forget what these fools did when they unleashed Trump on the country.

[handmade34]

8. any thinking person

(in 2016) knew who trump was and no good excuse for voting for him