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AlterNet: 'MAGA-lite' voters who 'swung hard' for Trump in 2024 feel 'betrayed' by him: 'Nothing getting better' [View all]
AlterNet - 'MAGA-lite' voters who 'swung hard' for Trump in 2024 feel 'betrayed' by him: 'Nothing getting better'
Adam Lynch
May 13, 2025
After years of voting Democrat, Philadelphia voter Sharita White decided she would cast her ballot for Donald Trump. Eight months later she says she has nothing to show for it.
“I just see things just keep rising and stuff, and things does not look like they’re getting better and stuff,” White tells Vox. “Because at this point, it’s like nothing is getting better. And the economy is getting worse.”
White is not alone in her regret. Black, Latino, and young voters who went out on a limb and supported a party they normally shun are “turning sharply against” Trump, “reversing the gains he made throughout 2024 with traditionally Democratic voting groups.”
“We voted for Trump and Trump betrayed us,” said Jose, a 61-year-old retired Dominican American man. “The truth is people voted for one thing: the economy. A good economy. And these tariffs are hiking everything up. … And he’s kicking out hard workers and not touching the people who don’t work, he’s leaving them. How does that make sense?”
“I expected things to be a little different,” Drexel University student and Trump voter Nikita told Vox.
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Adam Lynch
May 13, 2025
After years of voting Democrat, Philadelphia voter Sharita White decided she would cast her ballot for Donald Trump. Eight months later she says she has nothing to show for it.
“I just see things just keep rising and stuff, and things does not look like they’re getting better and stuff,” White tells Vox. “Because at this point, it’s like nothing is getting better. And the economy is getting worse.”
White is not alone in her regret. Black, Latino, and young voters who went out on a limb and supported a party they normally shun are “turning sharply against” Trump, “reversing the gains he made throughout 2024 with traditionally Democratic voting groups.”
“We voted for Trump and Trump betrayed us,” said Jose, a 61-year-old retired Dominican American man. “The truth is people voted for one thing: the economy. A good economy. And these tariffs are hiking everything up. … And he’s kicking out hard workers and not touching the people who don’t work, he’s leaving them. How does that make sense?”
“I expected things to be a little different,” Drexel University student and Trump voter Nikita told Vox.
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