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When Jennifer King, a church secretary in Oshkosh, Wis., cast her ballot for Donald Trump last fall, she had qualms about the untested businessman, but she liked the promise that Mr. Trumps policies would improve the economy.
Now, after watching the president for nearly five months, Ms. King, long a Republican, is wondering if she would vote for him again. In her view, he has gone back on promises to protect Medicare, pursued trade policies that could hurt her communitys dairy industry and seems immature at times in the way he attacks opponents.
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But as Mr. Trump loses ground with Ms. King and voters like her, it could be a sign that his base is shrinking at a moment when the president would need plenty of political capital to push a legislative agenda through Congress.
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The Wall Street Journal has identified a pool of swing Trump voterspeople like Ms. Kingwho said in Journal/NBC News surveys last fall that they preferred Mr. Trump with some reservations and concerns about his temperament. The Journal is interviewing this group periodically during the Trump presidency to measure their assessments of his performance.
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Most of these voters arent nearly as preoccupied as people in Washington with the probe into Mr. Trumps alleged ties to Russia. Their concerns with the Trump presidency arise much more from his failure to deliver on key campaign promises and his erratic tweeting.
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Ms. Coats is concerned that the firestorm consuming Mr. Trumps first months has gotten in the way of the presidents ability to deliver on his campaign promises such as the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
They did promise us a new health-care law, but I dont even know what it is aboutwho is covered, what is covered, Ms. Coats said. Whats concerning me about everything is that we areand rightly should beinvestigating Trump more than taking care of the country.
Although the White Houses big-ticket agenda items are far from completion, voters are beginning to feel effects of the Trump presidency in smaller ways.
Ms. Coats, a diabetic, recently qualified for federal disability payments and now is worried about the potential impact of Mr. Trumps call for new restrictions on those benefits.
Ms. King worries about the economic impact of Trump trade policies: In pushing to review trade pacts with Canada, she believes he has hurt the dairy industry that is the livelihood of many of her neighbors.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/for-trump-signs-of-a-softening-base-1497605402
Kaleva
(36,301 posts)msongs
(67,405 posts)on him soon. he was voted in to eliminate any accomplishments achieved by that black man
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)a poll by a GOP polling outfit surveying Trump voters. These voters didn't care that much about Russia/election interference or Trump not releasing his taxes. What did turn them off was how much time Trump spent at Mar-a-Lago/how much it was costing taxpayers.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,176 posts)I don't care much for it either, but I didn't need another reason to dislike him. They can have it, if that's what it takes.
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)of the Trump family. It's easy to say that's Ms $s going into Trump's pocket instead of going to create jobs or support medicare/medicaid/ss, etc.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,176 posts)as sort of an honorary position -- like being president of the local Rotary Club.
No one expects that the Rotary Club president abandon his personal business interests and focus full-time on the club's business. No one gets upset when their president makes business contacts -- and profits from them -- during their tenure. (Hell, I always assumed that's why many people join!) But he just can't wrap his feeble little mind around the differences between the two positions.
MHO, and I apologize to any Rotarians I may have offended -- it was just the first organization that came to mind, and it could just as easily have been the Moose, the Elks, the Odd Fellows, the Shriners, or the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
question everything
(47,479 posts)Well, just get the Trump brats off the roll and make him pay for all these play areas. This should release enough funds to protect all of members of Congress.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,176 posts)No, I don't think I'll carry that line of thought any further. Feel free to provide your own punch line.
Dulcinea
(6,631 posts)The Donald's base doesn't care about Russia. They don't think it has anything to do with them. They care that he's not bringing their jobs & way of life back, and that he's not deporting all those black & brown people that make them uncomfortable. Of course, neither he nor anyone else can do that.
GreenEyedLefty
(2,073 posts)HAB911
(8,891 posts)dembotoz
(16,804 posts)Laugh at their hypocrisy...
GusBob
(7,286 posts)What in the fuck did these stupid jits expect? A DT conversion? What they saw is what they got.
He is not a decent republican, he is not a decent conservative he is not a decent christian he is not a decent man he is not a decent American he is not a decent human being
He is a fucking traitor Russian troll
Fuck the stupid people who voted for him to hell
Revanchist
(1,375 posts)Gothmog
(145,242 posts)dalton99a
(81,488 posts)Fuck them
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)And you can bet that Fox and the other mouthpieces of the Nitwit Brigade will be trotting out a constant stream of scapegoats. The nice thing about the so-called Deep State is that it's nameless, faceless, and amorphous. In Orwell's book Animal Farm, it was Snowball; for 21st Century Republicans, right now it's Deep State.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)and why I have been warning people about it.
Besides the fact that it is bullshit nonsense someone concocted to sell books to the gullible, we now see what I feared. It's now an excuse for a demagogue as to why he is not successful.
Once again, the President has complete authority over the executive branch and can fire anyone therein at will. The President is responsible for his success and failure. Not some fake conspiracy theory entity.
Grammy23
(5,810 posts)they will start to catch on that he was just blowing smoke. As time moves on and he has accomplished so little of what he promised, maybe it will dawn on them that he was all talk, no action. Again, as with so many of his problems, this is one of his own making.
Perhaps if he hadn't been SO specific about when all of his miracles would be done, he could defend himself better. But in true trumpian fashion, he had to go over the top with his claims and the fools at the rallies (plus the ones who were 't able to go but heard every golden utterance from his lips via TV) believed him. As the evidence mounts that he didn't and couldn't wave a magic wand on Day One and get it all fixed, their ardor might cool...just a tad. I think polls are starting to show a shift away from their Orange Savior, so there is hope.