I've been calling undecided Americans who voted for Trump in 2016 to ask about last night's debate.
“Any predisposition I had in my soul to vote for Donald Trump again has been distinguished by last night,” Lori Jo Peters of Manheim, PA told me.
[THREAD] 👇
“Any predisposition I had in my soul to vote for Donald Trump again has been distinguished by last night,” Lori Jo Peters of Manheim, PA told me.
[THREAD] 👇
“I still don’t know that I can fully throw my support behind Joe Biden," Peters said.
She’s looking for “stability” during the VP debate next week, but is not getting her hopes up. “I have been annoyed by politics before, amused even. Now, I’m pissed. And I don't use bad words."
She’s looking for “stability” during the VP debate next week, but is not getting her hopes up. “I have been annoyed by politics before, amused even. Now, I’m pissed. And I don't use bad words."
Diane Brainard of Eagle River, WI felt both candidates behaved “childishly” and said she’d hoped to hear more about voting integrity ahead of November’s election.
“The constant interrupting was very distracting," she told me.
“The constant interrupting was very distracting," she told me.
Former Marine Ed Privé of Franklin, NH voted for Obama twice before casting his 2016 ballot for Donald Trump.
He summed up the race way: “We’re all sitting in this firefight. But it’s you and I who are going to pay the price.”
He sighed. “I’m just so discouraged by this.”
He summed up the race way: “We’re all sitting in this firefight. But it’s you and I who are going to pay the price.”
He sighed. “I’m just so discouraged by this.”
Many looked for answers on the debate stage that never came. “It didn’t clarify anything for my wife or myself,” Russ Dejulio of Mount Lebanon, PA told CBS News. “We’re still looking at both candidates. I need to hear more about their economic plans.”
Dejulio hoped to hear more condemnation of extremist groups from both candidates. “What I didn’t hear the president say is, ‘I definitely disavow extreme right wing groups.’ What I didn’t hear Biden say was ‘I disavow ANTIFA,’” Dejulio remarked.
extinguished***
Meanwhile, outside the Trump rally in Duluth, MN, voters lining up to see the president pledge their support for him, but concede the debate was "annoying," "hard to watch," "irritating," and one suggests she'd like to "shoot the moderator."
DULUTH, MN -- A group college students waiting in line for President Trump's rally tonight confessed they turned the presidential debate into a drinking game after the first round to make it bearable.
"Every time Biden smirked, we took a sip. We took a lot of sips," one offers.
"Every time Biden smirked, we took a sip. We took a lot of sips," one offers.
I informally polled the line of people standing outside before the Trump rally to ask if the debate changed any hearts or minds. There was a resounding “NO!” as a chant of “four more years” broke out.
One Trump supporter waiting in line for President Trump's rally tonight said Tuesday night’s debate offered zero surprises. “Trump has been this way for four years. Even in the primaries, he over-talked people... We know that’s his style. He got elected on that style.”
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
