For Some Reluctant Trump Voters, Coronavirus Was The Last Straw.
'Heidi and Dennis Hodges were proud to vote for President Donald Trump in 2016. “I liked his tough stance. I liked that he wasn’t a politician,” says Dennis, who runs a window-tinting company in Erie, Penn. “I supported him for three and a half years,” says Heidi, who manages the office of an auto service shop.
Then came the coronavirus crisis. For Dennis, the last straw was seeing Trump downplay the seriousness of COVID-19, even as troubling reports about the disease emerged from China. “Before the pandemic, Trump would have gotten my vote again,” he says. “Business was booming, the economy was good, it looked like everything was turned around.”
For Heidi, the stakes were personal: In March, her uncle had to visit the ER three times before he could get tested for COVID-19, she says. By the time he was finally admitted to the hospital on March 23, he was so sick he had to be put in a medically induced coma. He was on a ventilator for 28 days before his condition improved, she says. Trump “is sitting there touting that nobody has an issue with getting a test,” says Heidi. “And that’s not true.” . .
“If you look at all the swing states, virtually all of them, he’s underwater,” says Douglas Schoen, a former pollster for President Bill Clinton and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. “This election is a referendum on Trump,” Schoen continues. “And so far from what we see over the last month, month and a half, he’s losing that referendum.”
The coronavirus pandemic has revealed that not every Trump voter is a loyalist. In a 2016 race between two historically unpopular candidates, some Trump voters made a choice for the candidate they disliked less, not the one they liked more. Trump lost the popular vote in 2016 but was lifted to victory in the Electoral College by about 80,000 votes cast in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Now his lackluster response to a global health crisis may cost him the support of some of those reluctant voters. Pamela Rodriguez, 60, is a retired teacher in Arizona who voted for Trump in 2016. The lifelong Republican says she first started to nurse doubts about the President when he mocked the late Arizona Senator John McCain. But Trump’s response to the coronavirus, she says, has sealed her departure from the GOP. “It’s really cemented that I don’t belong in this party any longer,” she says. She plans to vote for Biden, as well as Democratic Senate candidate Mark Kelly.'>>>
https://time.com/5829244/trump-voters-coronavirus-2020/?
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"Brandon Hughes, a 32-year-old patient-access director at a Kentucky hospital, says he voted for Trump over Clinton partly because he figured “they’re both terrible choices.” He says he now feels a deep shame about that decision as he thinks about explaining Trump’s pandemic response to his six-year old daughter."
I guess he had no problem explaining that his "favorite guy" was out boinking a porn star while the guy's wife was in the hospital having his third - fourth - fifth - sixth (?) child?
I guess he thought it would be easy to explain why a guy would pay $130,000 secretly to that same star to "keep it quiet."
I guess that he was going to explain to his six-year old daughter that "grabbing them by the p***y" was just a part of normal behavior that you can expect from the "leader of the free world." (there's a question as to whether that "title" applies to the office anymore.)
And THAT is just my short list of questions as to why any parent of any child would have considered IQ45 even closely worthy of the vote. 
I'm afraid that for some you'll be VERY busy counting down, and from far higher numbers........ 
My rhetoric tends to be a form of wishful thinking disguised as commentary. 
Though all the lying, bragging, "grab em by the ******" "Good people", caged children, Ukraine, .....NOW they have a problem with him?
"For Heidi, the stakes were personal" Ah, I see now.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida
