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‘Very Scary’: Swing State Trump Voters Have Buyer’s Remorse
They voted for President Donald Trump to bring prices down and bolster the economy. Now they regret their vote.
Swing State Trump Voters Have Buyer’s Remorse: ‘It’s Very Scary’
INSTANT REGRET
They voted for President Donald Trump to bring prices down and bolster the economy. Now they regret their vote.
Josh Fiallo
Breaking News Reporter
Updated Mar. 14 2025 2:45PM EDT Published Mar. 14 2025 2:38PM EDT
Michigan moderates who flipped from voting for former President Joe Biden in 2020 to President Donald Trump in November are regretting their decision.
A focus group assembled by researcher Rich Thau last week found swing voters in the Great Lake State were having second thoughts about their vote for Trump, with political “chaos,” still-high grocery prices, and a plummeting stock market driving their views.
On Friday, CNN featured a Zoom session with short sound bytes from a handful of the participants. They were identified only by first name and last initial.
“Everything I believed was going to happen” under a Trump presidency has since gone the “opposite direction,” said a woman named Shannon wearing a Central Michigan University shirt
“I thought he was going to change things with affordability and make things cheaper,” she added, “But by putting these tariffs in and terrorizing the world, now things are going to only get more expensive than they already are.”
A woman named Sheryl said she is “almost scared to watch the news” anymore. A man named Phil added that Trump’s “actions have been disruptive and [are] creating chaos.”
Shannon agreed, saying, “I don’t think anyone would have voted for him if they expected to see what we’re seeing now.”
One of the voters with buyer’s remorse said she voted for Trump because she thought the economy would thrive.
“I was voting for him based off of the economy the first time around and I’m seeing a significant decline,” a voter named Samantha said.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over three percent in the week preceding Thau’s focus group. In February, egg prices hit an all-time record.
A focus group member named Therese said succinctly, “It’s very scary.”
CNN’s Dana Bash noted that Thau described feeling “whiplash” in his focus groups week-to-week as the economy has started to falter.
Just last month in Arizona, another swing state, Thau surveyed other voters who switched votes and found all 11 were happy with the president’s handling of the economy. In Michigan this week, however, he said 10 of 13 surveyed said they disapproved.
Republican lawmakers have faced outrage at town halls across the country in recent weeks, where constituents have expressed concern about mass federal layoffs, Elon Musk’s immense influence, and high prices.
Josh Dawsey, a political investigations reporter at the Wall Street Journal, said on CNN that Trump’s advisers had urged the president to focus on the economy during his campaign but that Trump finds the economy “boring” compared with issues like immigration.
“Now you see him talk less about cost of living than other topics,” Dawsey said. “You see him sort of do these aggressive actions on trade, and I’m curious to see how the American public will respond to that, because I think one of the key reasons people put him in the White House was they thought prices were going down and that he was better than the Democrats on making their lives better.”
These voters are so fvcking stupid‘Very Scary’: Swing State Trump Voters Have Buyer’s Remorse
They voted for President Donald Trump to bring prices down and bolster the economy. Now they regret their vote.www.thedailybeast.com
Swing State Trump Voters Have Buyer’s Remorse: ‘It’s Very Scary’
INSTANT REGRET
They voted for President Donald Trump to bring prices down and bolster the economy. Now they regret their vote.
Josh Fiallo
Breaking News Reporter
Updated Mar. 14 2025 2:45PM EDT Published Mar. 14 2025 2:38PM EDT
Michigan moderates who flipped from voting for former President Joe Biden in 2020 to President Donald Trump in November are regretting their decision.
A focus group assembled by researcher Rich Thau last week found swing voters in the Great Lake State were having second thoughts about their vote for Trump, with political “chaos,” still-high grocery prices, and a plummeting stock market driving their views.
On Friday, CNN featured a Zoom session with short sound bytes from a handful of the participants. They were identified only by first name and last initial.
A woman named Shannon said she regrets voting for Donald Trump in November. CNN
“Everything I believed was going to happen” under a Trump presidency has since gone the “opposite direction,” said a woman named Shannon wearing a Central Michigan University shirt
“I thought he was going to change things with affordability and make things cheaper,” she added, “But by putting these tariffs in and terrorizing the world, now things are going to only get more expensive than they already are.”
A Donald Trump voter identified only as “Sheryl” said she is scared to turn on the news most days in MAGA 2.0. CNN
A woman named Sheryl said she is “almost scared to watch the news” anymore. A man named Phil added that Trump’s “actions have been disruptive and [are] creating chaos.”
Shannon agreed, saying, “I don’t think anyone would have voted for him if they expected to see what we’re seeing now.”
A Donald Trump voter named Phil accused the president of sewing “chaos.” CNN
One of the voters with buyer’s remorse said she voted for Trump because she thought the economy would thrive.
“I was voting for him based off of the economy the first time around and I’m seeing a significant decline,” a voter named Samantha said.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over three percent in the week preceding Thau’s focus group. In February, egg prices hit an all-time record.
A focus group member named Therese said succinctly, “It’s very scary.”
CNN’s Dana Bash noted that Thau described feeling “whiplash” in his focus groups week-to-week as the economy has started to falter.
Just last month in Arizona, another swing state, Thau surveyed other voters who switched votes and found all 11 were happy with the president’s handling of the economy. In Michigan this week, however, he said 10 of 13 surveyed said they disapproved.
Republican lawmakers have faced outrage at town halls across the country in recent weeks, where constituents have expressed concern about mass federal layoffs, Elon Musk’s immense influence, and high prices.
Josh Dawsey, a political investigations reporter at the Wall Street Journal, said on CNN that Trump’s advisers had urged the president to focus on the economy during his campaign but that Trump finds the economy “boring” compared with issues like immigration.
“Now you see him talk less about cost of living than other topics,” Dawsey said. “You see him sort of do these aggressive actions on trade, and I’m curious to see how the American public will respond to that, because I think one of the key reasons people put him in the White House was they thought prices were going down and that he was better than the Democrats on making their lives better.”
They all have that smug and stupid look to them. How you lived through his first presidency and still couldn't figure out he's full of shyt. This motherfukker been poppin off on the campaign trail for a decade and you thought he was going to be different this time.‘Very Scary’: Swing State Trump Voters Have Buyer’s Remorse
They voted for President Donald Trump to bring prices down and bolster the economy. Now they regret their vote.
Swing State Trump Voters Have Buyer’s Remorse: ‘It’s Very Scary’
INSTANT REGRET
They voted for President Donald Trump to bring prices down and bolster the economy. Now they regret their vote.
Josh Fiallo
Breaking News Reporter
Updated Mar. 14 2025 2:45PM EDT Published Mar. 14 2025 2:38PM EDT
Michigan moderates who flipped from voting for former President Joe Biden in 2020 to President Donald Trump in November are regretting their decision.
A focus group assembled by researcher Rich Thau last week found swing voters in the Great Lake State were having second thoughts about their vote for Trump, with political “chaos,” still-high grocery prices, and a plummeting stock market driving their views.
On Friday, CNN featured a Zoom session with short sound bytes from a handful of the participants. They were identified only by first name and last initial.
A woman named Shannon said she regrets voting for Donald Trump in November. CNN
“Everything I believed was going to happen” under a Trump presidency has since gone the “opposite direction,” said a woman named Shannon wearing a Central Michigan University shirt
“I thought he was going to change things with affordability and make things cheaper,” she added, “But by putting these tariffs in and terrorizing the world, now things are going to only get more expensive than they already are.”
A Donald Trump voter identified only as “Sheryl” said she is scared to turn on the news most days in MAGA 2.0. CNN
A woman named Sheryl said she is “almost scared to watch the news” anymore. A man named Phil added that Trump’s “actions have been disruptive and [are] creating chaos.”
Shannon agreed, saying, “I don’t think anyone would have voted for him if they expected to see what we’re seeing now.”
A Donald Trump voter named Phil accused the president of sewing “chaos.” CNN
One of the voters with buyer’s remorse said she voted for Trump because she thought the economy would thrive.
“I was voting for him based off of the economy the first time around and I’m seeing a significant decline,” a voter named Samantha said.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over three percent in the week preceding Thau’s focus group. In February, egg prices hit an all-time record.
A focus group member named Therese said succinctly, “It’s very scary.”
CNN’s Dana Bash noted that Thau described feeling “whiplash” in his focus groups week-to-week as the economy has started to falter.
Just last month in Arizona, another swing state, Thau surveyed other voters who switched votes and found all 11 were happy with the president’s handling of the economy. In Michigan this week, however, he said 10 of 13 surveyed said they disapproved.
Republican lawmakers have faced outrage at town halls across the country in recent weeks, where constituents have expressed concern about mass federal layoffs, Elon Musk’s immense influence, and high prices.
Josh Dawsey, a political investigations reporter at the Wall Street Journal, said on CNN that Trump’s advisers had urged the president to focus on the economy during his campaign but that Trump finds the economy “boring” compared with issues like immigration.
“Now you see him talk less about cost of living than other topics,” Dawsey said. “You see him sort of do these aggressive actions on trade, and I’m curious to see how the American public will respond to that, because I think one of the key reasons people put him in the White House was they thought prices were going down and that he was better than the Democrats on making their lives better.”
Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments
In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.
Keeping With Kennedy’s Advice, Measles Patients Turn to Unproven Treatments
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In West Texas, some with severe illness have not been taken to a doctor until their conditions worsened, officials said.
March 15, 2025, 12:09 p.m. ET
A health worker at a mobile measles testing site in the Seminole Hospital District in West Texas last month.Julio Cortez/Associated Press
Struggling to contain a raging measles epidemic in West Texas, public health officials increasingly worry that residents are relying on unproven remedies endorsed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, and postponing doctor visits until the illness has worsened.
Hospitals and officials sounded an alarm this week, issuing a notice explaining which measles symptoms warranted immediate medical attention and stressing the importance of timely treatment.
“I’m worried we have kids and parents that are taking all of these other medications and then delaying care,” said Katherine Wells, director of public health in Lubbock, Texas, where many of the sickest children in this outbreak have been hospitalized.
Some seriously ill children had been given alternative remedies like cod liver oil, she added. “If they’re so, so sick and have low oxygen levels, they should have been in the hospital a day or two earlier,” she said.
The growing outbreak has spread to nearly 260 people in Texas. So far, 34 patients have been hospitalized, and one child has died. In neighboring New Mexico counties, the virus has sickened 35 and hospitalized two. Two cases in Oklahoma have also been linked to the outbreak.
Texas health officials believe the true number of cases is far higher. In all, there have been 301 measles cases in the United States this year, the highest number since 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported on Friday.
In his first public statements about the outbreak, Mr. Kennedy faced intense backlash for minimizing the situation, saying it was “not unusual” and falsely claiming that many people hospitalized were there “mainly for quarantine.”
In the following weeks, Mr. Kennedy altered his approach, offering a muted recommendation of vaccines for people in West Texas while also promoting unproven treatments like cod liver oil, which has vitamin A, and touting “almost miraculous and instantaneous” recoveries with steroids or antibiotics.
There is no such cure for measles, only medications to help manage the symptoms. Vaccination is the most effective way to prevent the infection.
While doctors will sometimes administer high doses of vitamin A in a hospital to help manage severe cases of measles, there is no credible evidence that supplements are effective for treating or preventing measles.
Experts also noted that antibiotics, which fight bacterial infections, may be used to treat secondary infections but do not stop measles itself, which is a virus.
In Gaines County, Texas, the epicenter of the measles outbreak, alternative medicine has always been popular. Many in the area’s large Mennonite community, where most of the measles cases have been clustered, avoid interacting with the medical system and hold to a long tradition of natural remedies.
In the last few weeks, drugstores in West Texas have struggled to keep bottles of vitamin A pills and cod liver oil supplements on their shelves.
And this week, doctors at Seminole Memorial Hospital, which sits at the center of Gaines County, noticed that the number of patients coming in for measles symptoms suddenly dropped. Those who did show up were sicker than patients seen in previous weeks.
Even while cases in the community increased, Dr. Leila Myrick, a physician at the hospital, said she performed half the number of measles tests, compared with those the week before.
She worried that her patients were instead going less than a mile away from the hospital to a pop-up clinic, where a doctor from a neighboring city had been doling out alternative remedies, like cod liver oil and vitamin C.
An exterior view of a large sign reading “Memorial Hospital, Seminole Hospital District, Emergency” next to a smaller, handmade “measles testing” sign.
Seminole Memorial Hospital, where doctors have been caring for measles patients since January.Desiree Rios for The New York Times
The physician, Dr. Ben Edwards, is well known in the area for producing podcasts that often discuss the dangers of vaccines, and for his wellness clinic in Lubbock, which rejects central tenets of medicine, like the idea that germs cause certain diseases.
In an interview with Fox News, Mr. Kennedy said he had spoken with Dr. Edwards (whom he mistakenly called Dr. Ed Benjamin) and learned “what is working on the ground.”
In an email relayed through an employee, Dr. Edwards confirmed that he had talked to Mr. Kennedy for about 15 minutes in what he described as an “information gathering” phone call. Dr. Edwards declined to speak directly with The New York Times.
In the following days, hundreds of people from the Mennonite community lined up at Dr. Edwards’s makeshift clinic, held behind a local health food store, said Tina Siemens, who helped organize the event.
Mrs. Siemens said people seeking treatment for active measles infections and those who hoped to prevent one were in attendance.
To get enough supplements for the clinic, Dr. Edwards had enlisted one of his patients, a pilot, to fly to Scottsdale, Ariz., and pick up nearly a thousand bottles of vitamin C supplements and cod liver oil, both as a lemon-flavored drink and unflavored soft gels, said an owner of the supplement company, Patrick Sullivan.
“How much do you have in stock, and how quickly could you get it to me?” Mr. Sullivan recalled Dr. Edwards asking.
The treatments were free, Mrs. Siemens said. Members of Children’s Health Defense, an anti-vaccine nonprofit that Mr. Kennedy helped found before becoming health secretary, created a donation page online that has raised more than $16,000 to help cover the cost of “essential vitamins, supplements and medicines.”
Measles symptoms often resolve on their own within a few weeks. But in rare cases, the virus can cause pneumonia, making it difficult for patients, especially children, to get oxygen into their lungs. There could also be brain swelling, which can cause lasting problems, like blindness, deafness and intellectual disabilities. Both complications can be deadly.
During this outbreak, hospitalized children with pneumonia have had to be intubated, Ms. Wells, the Lubbock health director, said. In those circumstances, timely care can mean the difference between life and death.
Unproven remedies have for decades made measles outbreaks more deadly, said Patsy Stinchfield, immediate past president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
She worked as a nurse practitioner at a hospital in Minnesota during a measles outbreak in 1989 that killed several children. Two of them arrived at her hospital in critical condition after their parents had tended to them at home with traditional healing therapies.
“They keep their child at home too long, and they try these home remedies,” she said. “They went straight from the E.R. into the intensive care unit and they died.”
Cannot wait for Dinesh to get deported.
fukkin magats don't understand he is one of the good ones.
