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Vanity Fair has an article out on women in small-city PA who voted for Trump in 2016 (and some claim they voted for Obama in 2008 and maybe 2012), and whether they are willing to vote for Biden this time around. Shockingly, the answer is almost universally not only no, but hell no - these women love them some Donald J. Trump. The article really isn't all that different from the dozens of others than have been published on white working-class America's love affair with Trump, but some of the quotes from these ladies are still amazing, especially after four years of Dear Leader. Luckily, Biden's success in PA doesn't depend so much on these people as it does college-educated women in Philly and its suburbs, and Pittsburgh and its suburbs, as in 2018. Some choice quotes:
Conservative Christians [in that part of PA] have “felt attacked with gay rights, abortion rights...They feel threatened by liberalism and what they see as a decline of America,” she said. “Trump has created a fear that people are going to lose their Christianity; they’re going to lose their guns; they’re going to lose God—all the things that are important to people in this area.” (So I guess Obama was right)
Stetzar has no complaints about [Trump's] behavior as president. “In my heart,” she said, “I feel he truly loves people.”
Stetzar initially liked Hillary Clinton and intended to vote for her, but soured on her when Republicans blamed her for the deaths of an American ambassador and three others at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. (BENGHAZI!)
A born-again Christian who’s a deacon and a choir member at her Baptist church, Stetzar told me she believes that God “allowed” the 9/11 terrorist attacks because the United States had lost its way. “Abortions were rampant. They weren’t respecting the police; they weren’t praying in schools.” Stetzar said that Trump "works night and day. He is fearless. He’s not afraid to say what he thinks...I think that he was chosen by God because this nation was praying for change.”
Eldredge seemed to have bought into Trump’s attacks on Biden’s mental acuity. “Most people I talk to think there’s something wrong with Biden." Weber, too, expressed doubts about Biden. “He doesn’t seem like he’s always with it,” she told me on the phone.
Weber repeated several right-wing talking points about the coronavirus (“The flu is actually worse”) and police brutality (“not just [against] Black people, but white people”). In discussing her dismay with a coronavirus lockdown imposed by Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Tom Wolf, she launched into a hateful rant about the state’s health secretary, who’s a trans woman. “I’m against all that transgender crap...She is a man, not a woman,” Weber said. “I am against all that LGBT—whatever they call it. That’s a mortal sin.”
Oh yeah, they sound persuadable, alright. Link: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/can-joe-biden-actually-sway-obama-trump-voters
Conservative Christians [in that part of PA] have “felt attacked with gay rights, abortion rights...They feel threatened by liberalism and what they see as a decline of America,” she said. “Trump has created a fear that people are going to lose their Christianity; they’re going to lose their guns; they’re going to lose God—all the things that are important to people in this area.” (So I guess Obama was right)
Stetzar has no complaints about [Trump's] behavior as president. “In my heart,” she said, “I feel he truly loves people.”
Stetzar initially liked Hillary Clinton and intended to vote for her, but soured on her when Republicans blamed her for the deaths of an American ambassador and three others at the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya. (BENGHAZI!)
A born-again Christian who’s a deacon and a choir member at her Baptist church, Stetzar told me she believes that God “allowed” the 9/11 terrorist attacks because the United States had lost its way. “Abortions were rampant. They weren’t respecting the police; they weren’t praying in schools.” Stetzar said that Trump "works night and day. He is fearless. He’s not afraid to say what he thinks...I think that he was chosen by God because this nation was praying for change.”
Eldredge seemed to have bought into Trump’s attacks on Biden’s mental acuity. “Most people I talk to think there’s something wrong with Biden." Weber, too, expressed doubts about Biden. “He doesn’t seem like he’s always with it,” she told me on the phone.
Weber repeated several right-wing talking points about the coronavirus (“The flu is actually worse”) and police brutality (“not just [against] Black people, but white people”). In discussing her dismay with a coronavirus lockdown imposed by Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor, Tom Wolf, she launched into a hateful rant about the state’s health secretary, who’s a trans woman. “I’m against all that transgender crap...She is a man, not a woman,” Weber said. “I am against all that LGBT—whatever they call it. That’s a mortal sin.”
Oh yeah, they sound persuadable, alright. Link: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/can-joe-biden-actually-sway-obama-trump-voters
