Opinion Today
November 15, 2022
These 17 Swing Voters Have a Very Clear Message for Donald Trump Patrick Healy & Adrian J. Rivera, New York Times When Donald Trump was president, you rarely heard Trump voters blame him when anything went wrong; it was the Democrats’ fault, usually, or the deep state or Robert Mueller or the F.B.I. or was due to any number of conspiracy theories. Which is why it was striking, during our focus group with 17 swing voters last Thursday, to hear so many of those who voted for Mr. Trump in 2020 say that they blamed him for Republican candidates’ performing poorly in last week’s midterms. Turns out they were just getting started. Before midterms, Trump’s image among Republicans had become less positive Andy Cerda & Andrew Daniller, Pew Research Center Republicans in the United States continue to have generally positive views of Donald Trump, but the share expressing warm feelings toward the former president in Pew Research Center surveys had fallen off by the run up to this month’s midter…