Voters in New Hampshire backing the former president say the economy is the key issue driving their support.

Miranda Blair didn’t vote for Donald Trump in 2016 because he scared her.

This week, she was wearing a bright red “Make America Great Again” hat as she waited in sub-freezing temperatures to hear him speak in Manchester, New Hampshire, as he rallied Republican voters to choose him as their nominee.

A lot happened in between to change Ms Blair’s thinking.

“Just a few years ago under Donald Trump, I felt like I could afford groceries and bring my girls skiing, and do all the things we wanted to do,” she said.

The 40-year-old sales manager voted for Barack Obama, a Democrat, in 2008 and found Mr Trump’s lack of political experience disqualifying in 2016. Disliking the options, she didn’t vote that year.

  • Gork
    22·
    10 months ago

    Lynne Mason, 60, said she didn’t believe that the storming of the US Capitol three years ago was violent.

    Did she not see the rioters literally smashing glass and breaking into the Capitol building? And physically attacking cops?

    • squiblet@kbin.social
      13·
      10 months ago

      If she watched Fox or whatever… no, probably not. Tucker Carlson did an entire hour of edited footage that omitted all the destructive and violent parts.

    • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
      7·
      10 months ago

      Yeah shooting someone trying to crawl through broken windows to attack Congress and hang the VP is definitely not violent…

      /s