2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumIs Trump reviving Reagan Democrats?
Mary Renkor approached her 23rd Ward early voting polling place with trepidation Monday in anticipation of doing something she says she had never done.
Ive changed my party to Republican, the 65-year-old retired nurse from Garfield Ridge confided afterward.
You wouldnt believe how hard it was to declare. It just seems like treason or something, explained Renkor, who said shes punched straight Democrat my whole life.
The reason behind Renkors switch should be no surprise to anyone following the strange goings-on this election season.
Im voting for Trump, she said.
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I'm seeing some of this here in Michigan...
Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Let's hope, pray, that the younger generations could never consider voting for the man.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)This is real.
marions ghost
(19,841 posts)I've been doing some phone banking. I think there could be this defection by conservative Democrats going on...
amborin
(16,631 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)A Trump Republican is actually a facist with no pretences .
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)GOP in 1980 for the first time in his life. Went back for Bill Clinton.
Attorney in Texas
(3,373 posts)to win this cycle.
BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)He's preaching the same nativist, racist BS as raygun. He's spouting the same economic jibberish as well.