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'I failed my fellow Americans': the white women defecting from Trump
The Guardian ^ | July 29, 2020 | Adam Gabbatt

Posted on 07/29/2020 3:23:45 PM PDT by Stravinsky

Donald Trump’s 2016 election win may have been propelled by white working-class men, but another key group in that narrowest of victories was white women with college degrees.

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“I really failed my fellow American citizens,” said Claudia Luckenbach-Boman. “I’m extremely disappointed in myself, and sometimes I am really afraid to talk about it.

“If I were to vote again for Donald Trump in 2020, it would be just as much a failure as an American, but also a failure as a human being.”

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“It was just a few months into his presidency that I realized the biggest mistake I could have made as an American citizen was not informing myself,” Luckenbach-Boman said.

“I started hearing that the economy was great. And I started looking more into that, and I realized that the economy is great for the 1%, and for the people who aren’t really working to make the country function on a day-to-day basis.

“I watched a lot of people in my life who still support Trump still flounder in finances.”

Despite her regret, Luckenbach-Boman said that vote had “changed her life”. She decided to focus on politics at college, and has worked on two campaigns to register voters this year.

She will vote for Biden in Michigan – another key swing state Trump narrowly won in 2016 – and harbors hopes of one day running for elected office.

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“I just want to apologize to the world,” said Julie, a fraud manager from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who asked that the Guardian not use her real name.

“I feel so guilty for having a part in voting this moron in.”

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: idiots; trump; whitewomen
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To: Stravinsky

These women NEVER voted for Trump in the first place.


61 posted on 07/29/2020 3:52:03 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Stravinsky
I follow this stuff pretty carefully and I think Trump's reelection is in trouble. In addition to all the Covid 19 stuff and anarchist rioting, he's losing support big in his strongest demographic, senior citizens. They're panicked about the virus and nursing home deaths and polls show they're defecting in large numbers.

Despite the good he's done for all Americans, they never hear about it due to a completely biased and partisan media. They've attacked him bitterly from the day he announced.

I think his biggest weakness is health care. He promised to replace Obamacare with something much better but for many reasons, mainly Pelosi's House and Never-Trump RINOS, he hasn't delivered. I fear that will cost him tragically in November.

62 posted on 07/29/2020 3:52:38 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: Bernard Marx

So do a direct mailer to every MSM watching senior. They still read their mail too. And newspapers. EO making Trump pills available to every senior that is worried. Payed for by Medicare. Problem solved.


63 posted on 07/29/2020 3:55:49 PM PDT by Kudsman (Baby Lives Matter)
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To: cyclotic

A woman with a hyphenated last name is never a conservative
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SO TRUE!!


64 posted on 07/29/2020 3:56:23 PM PDT by HypatiaTaught (Ovid- A Sheep. Baa Baa)
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To: Stravinsky
No. You failed your fellow Americans when you did not commit Seppuku. Please atone for your failure.
65 posted on 07/29/2020 3:56:47 PM PDT by sport
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Paid sorry


66 posted on 07/29/2020 3:56:55 PM PDT by Kudsman (Baby Lives Matter)
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To: Stravinsky

You only have to compare results of tax cuts vs the Stimulus bill,
do you want a job or would you like to enroll in
a brand new government program with a name that sounds great?


67 posted on 07/29/2020 3:57:09 PM PDT by Son House
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To: Stravinsky

They may think they made a mistake last time, but it will be diminished quite a bit if Biden gets in. He’d be nothing more than a puppet for the deep state, and America will never again know liberty without another revolution.


68 posted on 07/29/2020 3:57:46 PM PDT by Marauder ("I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just" -- Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Stravinsky

There will be a great many more weeping white women—and men—if the Alzheimers-ridden Biden is elected, ushering in what’s going on now in Portland et al on a permanent basis, huge tax increases, illegals being able to vote, etc. In other words, a total disaster. This woman doesn’t have much upstairs if she adds 2 + 2 and comes up with 5 as she is doing. She is not a critical thinker, buys the MSM Koolaid mix of absolute lies wholesale, and is not someone I’d want living next door. I would be exasperated at her stupidity.


69 posted on 07/29/2020 3:58:25 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Stravinsky

Yo bi-ach, thousands of true Americans, blacks and Real women will take your miserable place.


70 posted on 07/29/2020 3:59:35 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: Marx

I am afraid that you Mr. Marx are more confused than the misdirected woman this article is about.


71 posted on 07/29/2020 4:01:41 PM PDT by tenthirteen
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To: Fungi

She’s obviously trolling for a Democrat funded job in the political industry.


72 posted on 07/29/2020 4:01:53 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: kublia khan

You are right, but her pants suit is on fire, need to take care of that first.


73 posted on 07/29/2020 4:01:54 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable.)
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To: Stravinsky

She didn’t vote for Trump


74 posted on 07/29/2020 4:02:58 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Stravinsky

LOL. The Guardian. More fiction from the British gutter-crawling Press.


75 posted on 07/29/2020 4:03:00 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Stravinsky

The Guardian in 2016:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/13/trump-clinton-election-chances-moderate-policies-economy

Clinton “certain to win”.

Clinton “too moderate”.

Being a crazy _and_ stupid leftist is a tough way to go through life. :-)


76 posted on 07/29/2020 4:03:46 PM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: Flick Lives

Luckenbach?

Never met anyone with that name. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist but but it sounds like she’s trying to identify with with a ghost town in Texas that Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson sang about.

https://youtu.be/evtmVZFeooA


77 posted on 07/29/2020 4:03:48 PM PDT by Fai Mao (There is no justice until The PIAPS is legally executed)
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

Me too (see what I did there?!). I put this down to the Democrats attempt to tell us all what we are going to think. It’s all a bit confusing, are we supposed to view abusers as bad? When the Democrats are engaging in all sorts of narcissistic and controlling behaviors setting off every one of my alarm bells??!


78 posted on 07/29/2020 4:04:41 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (The GOP needs to pick another color. It is a matter of time before the Dems will want red back)
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To: Major Matt Mason

This one isn’t difficult. Hyphenated name is all over Linkedin. She young and looking for a Democrat funded JOB. If Fake News can’t do any better than this they are in trouble.


79 posted on 07/29/2020 4:04:48 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Stravinsky
Claudia Luckenbach-Boman

That's a strange way to spell Karen.

80 posted on 07/29/2020 4:07:27 PM PDT by silent_jonny ("Forward to what lies ahead" ~ Phil. 3:13)
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