Mike and I sat on this bench and talked for a while this morning. A Trump 2016/Biden 2020 voter, I wanted to hear his story. #WalkCT #Middletown
1/ Here it is:
1/ Here it is:
2/ Mike is a lifelong Democrat, but felt like the economy was going nowhere and nobody had a good answer on how to deal with China. He knew we couldn’t bring all the jobs back, but we needed a strategy.
He thought electing “a businessman” would help. In 2016 he voted for Trump.
He thought electing “a businessman” would help. In 2016 he voted for Trump.
3/ But Trump’s bungling of COVID shocked Mike. “He’s up there telling us to inject disinfectant into our bodies!” He decided to give Biden a shot.
4/ He still likes Biden. Says he got a raw deal on Afghanistan. “It was becoming another Vietnam,” Mike says. But he doesn’t know where to turn for objective information.
“There’s no Cronkite anymore. Who’s right? Who’s wrong? I don’t know.”
“There’s no Cronkite anymore. Who’s right? Who’s wrong? I don’t know.”
5/ Mike is going to stick w Biden. But he still struggles w where to get the truth about what’s going on.
And he wants more common sense in government. More focus on the economy, less focus on divisive issues.
“Biden has a lot of messes to clean up,” he laments.
And he wants more common sense in government. More focus on the economy, less focus on divisive issues.
“Biden has a lot of messes to clean up,” he laments.
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