As Trump was arrested yet again on Thursday following his fourth indictment this year - and the second related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden - his support among Republican voters has been surging.
But more troubling in the long term for Trump, who is the front-runner by a wide margin in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, is the reaction among independents like Clarcq to his legal troubles.
Arizona is one of six presidential swing states that will have a large say in who wins next November’s election, and which Biden narrowly won by just over 10,000 votes in 2020.
Independents are now the biggest voting bloc in the state, outnumbering Republicans and Democrats, according to new voter registration data released last month by the Arizona Secretary of State.
In Reuters interviews with 15 independents in Arizona about Trump’s arrest in Georgia on Thursday, only one said they would likely support Trump next November. The rest, like Clarcq, were repulsed by Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and what they see as his role in instigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
“I’m glad he’s been indicted,” said Susan Aitken, 71, a registered independent who voted for Trump in 2016. Aitken said she supports the Georgia charges.
“He was already talking about overturning the election even before he lost. Anybody else would be in jail by now.”
Crybaby Trump must never get the nuclear launch codes again.
Independents are now the biggest voting bloc in the state, outnumbering Republicans and Democrats, according to new voter registration data released last month by the Arizona Secretary of State.
Wow. I never thought I’d hear this about any state except maybe the tiny northern states like Rhode Island or Vermont. Definitely not from a state in the southwest.
Not all of arizona is like that. Phoenix is the biggest blue area, but not by that much, followed by Tuscon and i think Flagstaff. Everywhere else is nearly solidly red, especially the small towns. Those are still the most racist spots of the US outside of rural texas
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In 2016 he cast his ballot for Donald Trump, but as the former Republican president appeared at a Georgia jail on Thursday on criminal charges of trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Clarcq said he will never support him again.
As Trump was arrested yet again on Thursday following his fourth indictment this year - and the second related to his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden - his support among Republican voters has been surging.
Arizona is one of six presidential swing states that will have a large say in who wins next November’s election, and which Biden narrowly won by just over 10,000 votes in 2020.
The rest, like Clarcq, were repulsed by Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and what they see as his role in instigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters.
Trump faces 13 felony counts including racketeering, which is typically used to target organized crime, for pressuring state officials in Georgia to reverse his election loss and setting up an illegitimate slate of electors to undermine the formal congressional certification of Biden’s victory.
But some independents are still supporting the brash former reality TV showman, who asserts without evidence he is a victim of a judicial system biased against Republicans.
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