insight tonight into a group of voters that helped swing the 2024 presidential race,

those that voted for Democrats in prior elections, but for Donald Trump this past November.

The analysis comes from recent focus groups conducted by Republican strategist Sarah Longwell.

As he joins us now with more on what led these voters to shift political allegiances.

Thanks for being here.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

So our team poured over the hours of tape that you recorded with this group of voters.

And a common refrain seems to be, as expressed by this group, that at least Donald Trump is

doing something. Here's what Monty from New York had to say.

I think he's running the country like a business. So what happens if management steps into a

business for the first time? Shut everything down. Let's see the books. Let's look at everything.

Let's see what needs to stop being spent on and what. So I understand that. It sounds scary.

The funding freeze. And I know it does, it does like shake up a lot of industries or a lot of places.

But it's something that needs to be happening.

How did this group respond to some of the specific actions President Trump has taken?

The dismantling of government agencies, the mass deportations, the pardons for January 6th defenders. Yeah, well, look, those

were all different issues. But I think one of the things that you have to understand about a lot of

these voters is that they can't disentangle all of the crazy news stories, right? So they tend to

just take it in general as an assessment of,

does it feel like things are moving? Does it feel like things are happening? And I do think

contrasted with a lot of frustrations I heard from voters just going back, you know,

six months ago with Joe Biden was, hey, I don't feel like I hear him, don't feel like I see

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