A lifelong Democrat, she said in the poll that she would vote for Mr. Trump over Mr. Biden, whom she called “too old and a bit out of touch” and “a bit of a doofus.” Yet she believes the problems in the country had more to do with gerrymandered congressional districts than with Mr. Biden. By the end of the interview, she said she “will likely vote for him again — I’m just not happy about it.”
“Honestly, it was more of a choice of it just not being Joe Biden,” said Clara Carrillo-Hinojosa, a 21-year-old financial analyst in Las Vegas, of her support for Ms. Harris. She said she would probably vote for Mr. Trump: “Personally, I think we were doing a lot better when he was in the presidency, price-wise, money-wise, income-wise.
Yet in some ways, Ms. Carrillo-Hinojosa is the kind of voter Mr. Biden hopes he can win once people start focusing on the race. Mr. Trump has offended her as a woman, she said, and she likes some of what Mr. Biden has done, including his support for Israel.
“My biggest thing is not seeing America fall in shambles,” he said. “With this war I think Biden is way too lenient — with Hamas, Iran, Iraq, the whole nine yards. What I like about Trump is he was keeping everybody at bay and not wanting to mess with America.”
Mr. Maxon, who is Black, said Mr. Trump had made racist remarks, yet he plans to vote for him. “He’s helped out countless Black people, more than Biden did by a landslide,” he said. Specifically, he said, it was through pandemic unemployment assistance and other relief funding at the start of the pandemic (the Biden administration also distributed relief funding).
Honestly I think it just highlights a lot of the political illiteracy in the general public.
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People's memories are just weird. Before the pandemic forced Trump and the federal government to step in to save capital, people were in dire straits. The 2016 and 2020 election in their totality were a referendum on the economic struggles that most Americans were experiencing post-2008 financial crisis. There a reason why we saw populist like Trump and Bernie rise above the field of neo-liberal politicians. But people seemingly act like the government wouldn't have ended the pandemic relief programs even if Trump had been reelected.
He's not wrong of course. The Biden administration's greatest failure before going genocidal was ending pandemic relief as soon as it did. But again, this highlights the problem with how Americans think about politics outside of the very limited scope they have. If Trump is reelected he has no reason to do the same as he did during the pandemic unless capital faces another threat.
Didn't he promise $2k, but smudged the math to include the previous payment plus a tax credit and only paid out $600?
People remember shit when it comes to money that can make a big difference in their lives. I have no idea why centrist Dems thought borderline gaslighting people was going to be effective.
Yeah, that's just some dumb Snopes smuglord lib nonsense by the author. Like yeah he sent out one ~~$600~~ 1400 check (after lying about giving 2k as you said) and extended some of the relief programs, but ended most of the programs right when inflation was hitting people the hardest.
Yeah renewing student loan payments was a dumb shit move and I think he lost the youth vote with that strategy + genocide.