Hello everybody and welcome to the Focus Group podcast I I'm Sarah Longwell, publisher of the

bull work and I am out of the office this week. I am traveling so we are going to

give you guys a bit of a treat. I hear from a lot of you that's your favorite part is really just listening to the real people.

And so we're going to give you just the raw audio of one of our latest focus groups.

This group was a group of Trump 2016 voters who then did not vote for him in 2020.

So these are our swing voters.

In this group all but one voted for Biden and they were from Ohio, Georgia, and Pennsylvania, they're all women.

And we wanted to see how they were thinking about the big races in their states.

Obviously, from Doug Mastriano to Herschel Walker to J.D. Vance, there are some low quality Republican candidates running in those states with really extreme positions on abortion.

I think that shifted the focus from sort of a referendum on

Democrats to a choice election and I use choice deliberately both to say that it is now

about the right to choose, the abortion issue is obviously looming large,

but also just a choice between Democrats and these very sort of extreme Republicans.

And even if you're frustrated with

Democrats you're looking at some of these Republicans and thinking I don't know so

Megan from my office is the moderator I hope you guys enjoy this and I will be back next week,

although I gotta tell you, I got good news and I got bad news.

The good news is that this podcast has an incredible audience very devoted who show up every week to listen to the

focus groups and the analysis and I really appreciate all of you listening.

If you love this show you should go leave a review at Apple Podcasts, but the bad news is, I don't know if it's bad news, I think it's got a good news.

For the remainder of our season, we are going to go behind a paywall. So if you are not a

Bullwork plus subscriber this is going to become a Bullwork plus product and we

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