Glyn1
Tommy Hutchison
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https://rvat.org/
I've been reading through the messages on this site and I'm still not sure if it's a genuinely important movement or something that is just a publicity stunt. I'm hoping that Tummer or other American Jacks can provide that information.
If you haven't heard about it yet, it's a group of people who voted for President Trump in 2016 but will be voting against him in 2020 and they explain their reasoning. Politicians are excluded from leaving messages so they are all statements from ordinary people.
You can sort the messages by State, so I looked at those by people in Texas (where Tummer is located, I didn't expect him to be on it but you have to start somewhere) such as Tommy (43, life-long Republican who has never voted Democrat) and Monica (pro-life Evangelical with a son in the military). These aren't floating voters who easily switch their allegiances but are decent, hard-working people who continue to have strong Republican-conservative views. Listening to them, a couple of things have struck me. One is that their views are recognisably conservative but seem to have little in common with those of Trump. Perhaps worse, they don't even seem to have much to do with the Republican political leadership, who appear to me to change their views daily based on whatever Trump has tweeted that morning.
Also, that you can no longer (if you ever could) predict someone's views on a range of topics based on their political allegiance. A lot of people giving their stories on this site are fiscally conservative but socially liberal, and I'm willing to bet that the opposite would apply to Democrat voters as well, and to people in this country.
Republican Voters Against Trump may or may not be important, especially as 90% of Republican voters in polls have stated that they will vote for him again, but the level of contempt and disgust aimed at Trump from these proudly conservative citizens did genuinely amaze me.
One of their recent television ads contrasted Reagan with Trump (Anyone have a link?) and I guess it's those Reagan conservatives that this group is trying to influence.
This may not be a portent of any significant change, but perhaps it's like the breaking of the "red Wall" in the north of England in our last general election, when so many Labour voters switched over to Johnson.
I've been reading through the messages on this site and I'm still not sure if it's a genuinely important movement or something that is just a publicity stunt. I'm hoping that Tummer or other American Jacks can provide that information.
If you haven't heard about it yet, it's a group of people who voted for President Trump in 2016 but will be voting against him in 2020 and they explain their reasoning. Politicians are excluded from leaving messages so they are all statements from ordinary people.
You can sort the messages by State, so I looked at those by people in Texas (where Tummer is located, I didn't expect him to be on it but you have to start somewhere) such as Tommy (43, life-long Republican who has never voted Democrat) and Monica (pro-life Evangelical with a son in the military). These aren't floating voters who easily switch their allegiances but are decent, hard-working people who continue to have strong Republican-conservative views. Listening to them, a couple of things have struck me. One is that their views are recognisably conservative but seem to have little in common with those of Trump. Perhaps worse, they don't even seem to have much to do with the Republican political leadership, who appear to me to change their views daily based on whatever Trump has tweeted that morning.
Also, that you can no longer (if you ever could) predict someone's views on a range of topics based on their political allegiance. A lot of people giving their stories on this site are fiscally conservative but socially liberal, and I'm willing to bet that the opposite would apply to Democrat voters as well, and to people in this country.
Republican Voters Against Trump may or may not be important, especially as 90% of Republican voters in polls have stated that they will vote for him again, but the level of contempt and disgust aimed at Trump from these proudly conservative citizens did genuinely amaze me.
One of their recent television ads contrasted Reagan with Trump (Anyone have a link?) and I guess it's those Reagan conservatives that this group is trying to influence.
This may not be a portent of any significant change, but perhaps it's like the breaking of the "red Wall" in the north of England in our last general election, when so many Labour voters switched over to Johnson.
