Wisconsin swing voters tire of Trump--but are not hip on Dems either.....

[riversedge]

Mar 18


Wisconsin swing voters tire of Trump

https://www.axios.com/2020-presidential-election-wisconsin-swing-voters-4fba07f1-8455-48d2-8a4f-d457d9bcf524.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twsocialshare&utm_campaign=organic


Illustration: Lazaro Gamio/Axios

APPLETON, Wis. — Voters who supported Barack Obama in 2012 and then Donald Trump in 2016 are sick of Trump, saying in a focus group here that they're getting tired of his "lies" and the way he treats people.

Why it matters: Trump barely won Wisconsin, where he got roughly 22,000 more votes than Hillary Clinton, and these swing voters were decisive. If he's losing them, it will be harder to win the state again with just his base supporters.

This was the biggest takeaway from the focus group of swing voters I watched last week, conducted by the research firms Engagious and Focus Pointe Global.


The group included eight Obama/Trump voters and four Mitt Romney/Hillary Clinton voters.

Be smart: Their unhappiness with Trump reveals a larger re-election problem for him: touting a strong economy and low unemployment numbers isn't cutting it anymore. It's not necessarily his politics that will be his downfall with these Obama/Trump and Romney/Clinton voters; it's his personality.

What they're saying: "I think he’s a dirty crook that lies, cheats, and steals when he can," said George Engelmann, a 49-year-old Obama/Trump voter. "There’s just a plethora of things that are still coming out."

Although Engelmann said there's nothing Trump has done politically that he disagrees with, "I will definitely take a chance [on a Democrat]" in 2020. "I don't think I'll vote for Trump again. I don't think he'll make it."