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kpete

(71,901 posts)
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 09:25 AM Jun 2022

NYT -Focus Group of Trump voters reject him for the first time

In her latest New York Times column, Michelle Goldberg notes that GOP strategist Sarah Longwell has been conducting a long-term focus group of Trump voters for more than a year, and she found this week that, for the first time ever, none of the participants wanted to see him run in 2024.

Longwell tells Goldberg that even though none of her participants are watching the hearings, information from them is nonetheless reaching them and reminding them of the massive amount of baggage that Trump would bring to a potential rematch with President Joe Biden in 2024.

"It is plausible that part of what the Jan. 6 hearings are doing is just creating more of that reminder that Trump is a lot to have to defend, a lot to deal with," Longwell explains.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/24/opinion/jan-6-hearings-trump.html

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NYT -Focus Group of Trump voters reject him for the first time (Original Post) kpete Jun 2022 OP
Thanks Kpete. This is what i was asking yesterday. Solomon Jun 2022 #1
He has a way of showing that... 2naSalit Jun 2022 #2
Eventually he does wear out his welcome and people just want him to go away. PoliticAverse Jun 2022 #3
He is persecuted like Jesus superpatriotman Jun 2022 #4
Which means we need to help amplify Lars39 Jun 2022 #5
Enough, already ,of Teflon Don. His fickle followers not seeing all of his promised "winning" lindysalsagal Jun 2022 #6
I'm not able to read the article (paywall), but it sounds like....... Jade Fox Jun 2022 #7

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
3. Eventually he does wear out his welcome and people just want him to go away.
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 09:29 AM
Jun 2022

This is not unusual for abrasive personalities.

superpatriotman

(6,232 posts)
4. He is persecuted like Jesus
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 09:32 AM
Jun 2022

It will be too much for the entire deep state and the socialists to be against him.

lindysalsagal

(20,444 posts)
6. Enough, already ,of Teflon Don. His fickle followers not seeing all of his promised "winning"
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 09:42 AM
Jun 2022

Maybe they're not complete rubes, after all, Donnie.

Jade Fox

(10,030 posts)
7. I'm not able to read the article (paywall), but it sounds like.......
Fri Jun 24, 2022, 10:04 AM
Jun 2022

they are not rejecting Trump's ideas, just him as being more trouble than he's worth.

That's something, but not much.

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