Star Of Bloomberg's Trump Supporter Vid: Wait, I'm No Trump Supporter!
Bloomberg Politics' "With All Due Respect" won the morning Thursday with a boffo focus group of New Hampshire Trump supporters singing The Donald's praises as a "classy" commander-in-chief in waiting who is definitely "one of us" despite being worth billions of dollars. But one of the voters featured Wednesday night in the focus group told TPM that she's not a Trump supporter at all. And the same went for most of the other participants in the panel, according to the voter.
Jessica DeBurro was prominently featured in a video of the focus group posted to Bloomberg Politics' website that showed 12 Granite State residents fawning over Trump's everyman appeal and vast wealth. Bloomberg Politics described the focus group participants as "12 Republican and independent voters who are supportive of Donald Trump's presidential candidacy," while co-managing editor John Heilemann, who led the focus group, further stated that the participants were Trump supporters whose "second choices in the Republican field ran the gamut from Jeb Bush and John Kasich to Ben Carson and Ted Cruz."
But DeBurro, a data analyst, told TPM Thursday in a phone interview that she is actually a supporter of Carson's and not Trump's. She added that while all the participants in the focus group had listed Trump among their top three favored Republican presidential candidates, just one person was "100 percent a Trump supporter."
It was not immediately clear why "With All Due Respect," which has a troubled history of controversy and pratfalls, could not assemble 12 actual Trump supporters out of the entire state of New Hampshire or why Bloomberg Politics claimed it was a group of Trump supporters when, according to DeBurro, only one of the 12 is currently supporting the boisterous mogul.
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She's offended by the suggestion that she's a Trump supporter. She supports someone who has a chance at winning, Carson.