Chad Johansen voted first for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and later that year for Donald Trump, drawn to both of the presidential candidates’ populist, anti-establishment messages.
He backed Sanders again during the New Hampshire primary three months ago. But the phone repair shop owner won’t be casting a ballot for Trump again this November. The president’s promise to improve health care and the economy for small businesses have yet to materialize, Johansen said. And the coronavirus crisis hasn’t helped his view of Trump.
“Everything in the West Wing is just craziness,” he said, referring to the White House. “The way he acts. The handling of the pandemic. It’s just ridiculous. The way people on the front lines are having to handle this themselves. He isn’t following the facts and isn’t listening to anyone but his genius self.”
Four years ago, Johansen and tens of thousands of fellow Sanders’ voters – one of about every eight – pivoted from the self-described Socialist Democrat during the presidential primary and cast a ballot in the general election for a billionaire Republican who championed capitalist ideals.
They liked Trump’s call for a rebirth in American manufacturing, his willingness to confront unfair trade practices by other countries, his blunt takedown of Washington’s power structure – themes Sanders pounded as well.
And they didn’t particularly care for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/05/17/joe-biden-hopes-win-over-more-bernie-sanders-voters-beat-trump/5182446002/
He backed Sanders again during the New Hampshire primary three months ago. But the phone repair shop owner won’t be casting a ballot for Trump again this November. The president’s promise to improve health care and the economy for small businesses have yet to materialize, Johansen said. And the coronavirus crisis hasn’t helped his view of Trump.
“Everything in the West Wing is just craziness,” he said, referring to the White House. “The way he acts. The handling of the pandemic. It’s just ridiculous. The way people on the front lines are having to handle this themselves. He isn’t following the facts and isn’t listening to anyone but his genius self.”
Four years ago, Johansen and tens of thousands of fellow Sanders’ voters – one of about every eight – pivoted from the self-described Socialist Democrat during the presidential primary and cast a ballot in the general election for a billionaire Republican who championed capitalist ideals.
They liked Trump’s call for a rebirth in American manufacturing, his willingness to confront unfair trade practices by other countries, his blunt takedown of Washington’s power structure – themes Sanders pounded as well.
And they didn’t particularly care for Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/05/17/joe-biden-hopes-win-over-more-bernie-sanders-voters-beat-trump/5182446002/
