Voter Vibe Check: Anti-Trump Conservatives On Republican Party Politics In 2024
Notes from America with Kai Wright
WNYC Studios
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🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
With the Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina primaries behind us, the 2024 election cycle is well underway.
Donald J. Trump isn’t the 2024 Republican presidential candidate yet, but his victories in Iowa and New Hampshire suggest that it will be smooth sailing to the GOP nomination for the former president once again — notwithstanding his several impending criminal cases and tons of political baggage.
In this, the first of a series of conversations leading up to the 2024 presidential election, host Kai Wright asks conservative voters who are not aligned with Trump or the MAGA movement some key questions. What do anti-Trump conservatives care about? What space do they occupy in this political landscape? How do they make their voices heard?
Kai also speaks with Theodore R. Johnson, senior advisor at New America focusing on race and Black electoral behavior, and a contributing columnist at the Washington Post; and with David Siders, politics editor at POLITICO who leads their reporting series “Road Trip,” which introduces readers to voters and local political players across the nation.
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| 0:00.0 | The hardest thing to watch has been the Evangelical Christians sell out to this false |
| 0:09.6 | prophet. |
| 0:10.6 | Someone said they'd rather vote for a tuna fish sandwich than Donald Trump. |
| 0:13.2 | Same. |
| 0:14.2 | His actions are deplorable, his attitude towards people of color, women. |
| 0:19.2 | It's disgusting, constant lies, distortions of truth, it's just unreliable, unleash, unprecedented. the |
| 0:25.0 | constant lies distortions of truth. It's just unreliable, unleash, |
| 0:24.6 | unpresidential. |
| 0:26.4 | I've never seen a man in public view act like this, |
| 0:30.4 | be so immoral, petulant, and vindictive, a person who has supported our mortal enemies, |
| 0:38.0 | this man has no positive qualities. |
| 0:42.0 | I think that as long as Trump isn't prevails, |
| 0:46.3 | we cannot have the leader that we as a nation are entitled to. So, It's notes from America. I'm Kai Wright. Welcome to the show. |
| 1:10.0 | It's Notes from America. I'm Kai Wright. Welcome to the show. |
| 1:15.0 | Those were voices gathered by the organization Republican voters against Trump |
| 1:20.6 | during the last presidential election. |
| 1:23.4 | Of course, you wouldn't know it because it's deja vu all over again. |
| 1:28.5 | A quick backstory for this show, Notes from America, |
| 1:31.4 | it actually began as a reporting project back in 2016. |
| 1:36.0 | We wanted to know what was really driving people into Donald Trump's MAGA movement, |
| 1:41.0 | beyond all the heated rhetoric, you know, what was happening at that moment in history. |
| 1:46.0 | This was still early in the election, kind of like now in this election, and at the time we kept saying, |
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