A whole swath of GOP voters appears firmly committed to not voting for Trump in November.
Donald Trump has a problem no matter what happens in New Hampshire on Tuesday night: There’s a whole swath of the Republican electorate and a good chunk of independents who appear firmly committed to not voting for him in November if he becomes the nominee.
It’s an issue that became starkly apparent in polling ahead of the Iowa caucuses, when an NBC News/Des Moines Register/Mediacom poll of voters in that state found that fully 43 percent of Nikki Haley supporters said they would back President Joe Biden over Trump. And it’s a dynamic that has been on vivid display as the campaign shifted this week to New Hampshire.
“I can’t vote for Trump. He’s a crook. He’s too corrupt,” said Scott Simeone, 64, an independent voter from Amherst, who backed Trump in 2016 and 2020. “I voted for him, and I didn’t realize he’s as corrupt as he is.”
A bit. What we’ve seen so far is very mild for sundowning and is just a sort of generic confusion that they all get. Sundowning – the decompensation that happens at the end of a day – tends to be FAR worse.
I’m anticipating the full meltdown, where they get agitated, combative, and lose all sense of where they are, screaming, incoherent, crying in rage, literally hitting out at anyone who tries to touch them, pacing uncontrollably, stalking off and then stalking back (or just leaving to wander off), etc. Once you’ve seen it come on and then erupt into full flower, you’ll never forget it.
To quote the prophetic words of Bachman Turner Overdrive, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”