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🗓️ 26 May 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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0:00.0 | they are in a sense January 6th Republicans. People who may have been staunch Republicans for a long time, |
0:07.6 | they may have voted for Trump twice, but now they have this deep feeling that he's crossed a line, that he's lost dead, that he is broken with them in a way that they can never accept again. |
0:19.0 | You may recognize that voice as Ben Wickler, chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party and one of the country's best political organizers. |
0:26.8 | I called up Ben earlier this week so we could talk about a group of people who may decide the |
0:30.8 | election in Wisconsin and all across America, |
0:34.0 | Trump voters who no longer like Trump. |
0:37.0 | Of course, in a close election, there are many groups of voters who could decide the outcome. |
0:42.0 | And we'll be talking to a lot of them over the next few months. |
0:44.7 | Black voters, Hispanic voters, young voters, people who aren't even sure if they're |
0:48.8 | going to vote at all. |
0:50.5 | The anti-Trump coalition we're building has to include as many voters as possible, |
0:55.0 | whoever they are, wherever we can find them. |
0:58.0 | In 2020, a small percentage of people who voted for Trump in 2016 switched to Joe Biden. |
1:04.8 | And that made all the difference in a state like Wisconsin that was decided by about 20,000 |
1:08.7 | votes. |
1:09.8 | In 2024, not only do we have to keep these voters, we also have an opportunity to pick up some two-time Trump voters who just don't think they can bring themselves to support him again, for all kinds of reasons. |
1:21.0 | There are different flavors of soft Republicans, |
1:25.0 | different types of folks. |
1:26.4 | They're often very different from most swing voters. |
1:30.1 | They're often high information voters. |
1:32.8 | There's a lot of military veterans and military families, |
1:35.1 | like people who put their lives on the line and wrap their whole family |
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