They Dumped Trump for Biden. Now What?

Notes from America with Kai Wright

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News Commentary, Politics, History, News

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Voters who switched from Trump to Biden in 2020 are headed to the polls again, and former GOP strategist Sarah Longwell wants to know what they’re thinking. Longwell is executive director of the Republican Accountability Project and publisher of The Bulwark, where she hosts The Focus Group podcast. She’s convening an ongoing series of focus groups with voters, including “flippers” who ditched Trump in 2020. What are they thinking as they head into primary elections for this year’s midterms?

Then, Dr. Theresa Jean Tanenbaum responds to one of our listener voicemails about choosing a name as a trans woman. Dr. Tanenbaum shares her own story with producer Kousha Navidar, as well as her work at the intersection of technology, media, and identity.

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0:00.0	Lippers, that's what former Republican strategist Sarah Longwell calls voters who switched from
0:06.0	Trump to Biden.
0:07.0	She's running focus groups to figure them out and coming up on the United States of
0:10.4	anxiety, what Sarah's learned about how these voters might show up in the upcoming Republican
0:15.2	primaries.
0:16.2	Then we open the mailbag and get an assignment from one of you, a follow-up to our episode
0:20.8	on the relationship between our names and our identities.
0:23.4	I want people to start to understand that we are the masters of our identity.
0:30.8	We spend so much time living inside of boxes, whether those be socioeconomic boxes, cultural
0:37.0	boxes, gendered boxes, and I want to make space for people to feel safe pushing back against
0:46.8	those forces that keep them fixed within a particular identity space.
0:51.7	That's all coming up.
0:58.7	I'm not sure if you can hear these demonstrations, but democracy is on the mind and people
1:08.2	have a lot of opinions on things that are going on in politics right now.
1:14.3	Where are you from?
1:15.3	Oklahoma City, Maryland.
1:16.3	California, Bay Area, Oakland.
1:18.6	Do you know when your next congressional election is?
1:21.5	No, I don't.
1:22.5	What kind of characteristics are important to you when it comes to choosing a person you
1:27.5	want to vote for?
1:28.8	Transparency, integrity, a clear understanding of what their platform is.
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