Can Trump Voters Still Change Their Minds?

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🗓️ 20 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The Republican strategist Sarah Longwell explains what she’s hearing in focus groups from swing-state voters, and those who’ve “flipped” between Democratic and Republican candidates.

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0:00.0	Listen to support it, WNYC Studios.
0:11.4	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:17.0	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.
0:22.0	It's less than two months to go before the election
0:24.6	and everybody's in the prediction business. But maybe no one can read the room
0:29.1	quite as well as political strategist Sarah Longwell.
0:33.0	For years, Longwell has been running focus groups with voters
0:37.0	who are going to be crucial come November.
0:39.0	Voters in swing states, undecided voters,
0:42.0	discontented Trump supporters, and we'll hear from some of those
0:46.2	people and what they've been telling Sarah Longwell.
0:50.0	Longwell herself is a Republican, raised in a deep red county in Central Pennsylvania, but she
0:56.1	saw the party change before her eyes in 2016, right at the time that her wife was about
1:02.1	to give birth to their first child.
1:06.3	The night her water broke, we sat down on the couch.
1:08.4	We were, you know, I'm obsessively watching all of the conventions and whatnot.
1:12.4	And at the time, know I'm a Republican
1:16.0	who just cannot believe this is happening cannot believe that Donald Trump won the
1:21.0	Republican primary.
1:22.0	It's July of 2016 the that Donald Trump won the Republican primary.
1:22.9	It's July of 2016, the RNC, and Malanya
1:26.6	Trump is about to address the convention.
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