A lifelong Democrat, she said in the poll that she would vote for Mr. Trump over Mr. Biden, whom she called “too old and a bit out of touch” and “a bit of a doofus.” Yet she believes the problems in the country had more to do with gerrymandered congressional districts than with Mr. Biden. By the end of the interview, she said she “will likely vote for him again — I’m just not happy about it.”
“Honestly, it was more of a choice of it just not being Joe Biden,” said Clara Carrillo-Hinojosa, a 21-year-old financial analyst in Las Vegas, of her support for Ms. Harris. She said she would probably vote for Mr. Trump: “Personally, I think we were doing a lot better when he was in the presidency, price-wise, money-wise, income-wise.
Yet in some ways, Ms. Carrillo-Hinojosa is the kind of voter Mr. Biden hopes he can win once people start focusing on the race. Mr. Trump has offended her as a woman, she said, and she likes some of what Mr. Biden has done, including his support for Israel.
“My biggest thing is not seeing America fall in shambles,” he said. “With this war I think Biden is way too lenient — with Hamas, Iran, Iraq, the whole nine yards. What I like about Trump is he was keeping everybody at bay and not wanting to mess with America.”
Mr. Maxon, who is Black, said Mr. Trump had made racist remarks, yet he plans to vote for him. “He’s helped out countless Black people, more than Biden did by a landslide,” he said. Specifically, he said, it was through pandemic unemployment assistance and other relief funding at the start of the pandemic (the Biden administration also distributed relief funding).
Didn’t he promise $2k, but smudged the math to include the previous payment plus a tax credit and only paid out $600?
People remember shit when it comes to money that can make a big difference in their lives. I have no idea why centrist Dems thought borderline gaslighting people was going to be effective.
Yeah, that’s just some dumb Snopes smuglord lib nonsense by the author. Like yeah he sent out one
$6001400 check (after lying about giving 2k as you said) and extended some of the relief programs, but ended most of the programs right when inflation was hitting people the hardest.It was 1400 he shorted the promise by 600 because the trump admin sent out 600 a few months prior
Corrected, thanks.
That was an absolutely wild time. I recall libs telling me it was always going to be $1,400 and that I didn’t understand politics.
Yeah renewing student loan payments was a dumb shit move and I think he lost the youth vote with that strategy + genocide.
Literally ran campaign adds with a check with $2000 in the amount box then when elected said no obviously the $600 you already got was part of it and repeatedly insisted nobody said anything about $2000.
“Motherfucker still owes me $600” is a meme, it’s also legitimately a lot of people policy poaition.
Turns out objectively lying to people and then calling them stupid when they bring it up isn’t a great electoral strategy.
Biden was stumping for Warnock and literally said $2000 checks would be in the mail.
No, it was Trump who proposed $2k.
Initially the Democrats wanted to give out $600. Pelosi even famously said $600 was “significant”, then suddenly, for reasons I still don’t understand, Trump jumped out and said we should be giving people $2k.
Then the Democrats said since people already got $600 under Trump, it should be $1.4k. That’s why people said Biden owed them $600.
Trump probably said $2000 because, like most rich people, he has no real concept of money. It’s like when Bill Gates massively overestimated the price of groceries on TV a few years ago. He probably thought $2000 was basically nothing, but overshot what “basically nothing” actually is