Democrats have been switching over to Donald Trump en masse this election cycle, and this interview with a voter proved why. He went rogue, letting America know why he had abandoned his former party for The Donald, and leaving his fellow Dems speechless with rage.
The interview with the voter took place inside a diner in Staten Island, New York’s Republican enclave. Nevertheless, this man was a Democrat, but he announced he was making a very non-liberal voting choice.
“Who are you supporting and why?” a reporter from “Fox & Friends” asked him.
“I’m probably leaning more towards Donald Trump at the moment,” the man said.
“But you tell me that you’re actually registered as a Democrat,” the reporter responded.
“I am, I am,” the voter said. “But the Democratic Party does not represent my views anymore.”
When asked what he meant by that, the voter said, “They moved so far left and it’s not the way it was when I registered, like, 30 years ago. It shows you the sad state of the Democratic Party now where your only two choices are a socialist and a corrupt criminal, basically.”
“Your only two choices are a socialist and a corrupt criminal.” Voter leaving Dems after 30 years to vote for Trump.https://t.co/TXUElauFNJ
— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) April 15, 2016
Sadly, he won’t be able to vote in Tuesday’s New York primary. Thanks to state rules, Democrats or independents had to switch their affiliation by last October in order to be eligible to decide the party nominee.
‘Build a larger room’—Trump draws a crowd on Staten Islandhttps://t.co/iiOJeliIIT pic.twitter.com/KquEge8JEH
— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 18, 2016
However, we guess that a number of people did, for the same reason this gentleman described. Trump has brought a lot of new voters into the Republican fold, voters who are turned off by the Democratic Party’s seemingly inexorable shift to the left.
People like this voter are who the Republican Party leaders risk alienating if it takes the nomination away from Donald Trump and give it to a party functionary who doesn’t threaten the establishment. We can only hope that’s a mistake they don’t make.
H/T TeaParty.org