Describe a Trump-Whitmer voter

[GregTheGreat657]

Describe a Michigan voter who voted for Trump in 2016, but voted for Gretchen Whitmer in the gubernatorial election in 2018.

[RussFeingoldWasRobbed]

A #populist who wanted to fix the roads

[Bootes Void]

- Michigan democrats who went for Trump for the first time ever/for a while
- republicans who arent very strong Trump supporters
- a swing voter who just wants to vote on aesthetics. supposed "populist" president and attractive governor.

[Agonized-Statism]

There were people like this early on in Trump's movement, at least claiming to be anti-partisan populists who would vote for "mavericks" in both parties. Whether the "all Democrats are inherently evil" stuff was them showing their true colors, QAnon and Q-adjacent cult beliefs spreading, or these kinds of people leaving Trump's coalition, it's hard to imagine this voter now. The 2018 elections seemed like the turning point where Trump-supporting circles required participants to disavow all Democrats, past and present.

[Schiff for Senate]

There are enough of them - Trump won MI, and so did Whitmer (by nearly 10 points). Either an otherwise blue voter who was enchanted by Trump's message but disillusioned by 2018, or a swing voter who succumbed to Trump's appeal and, in 2018, the national environment. Or maybe a female voter who likes the idea of a female governor.

[pbrower2a]

1. someone who believed that Trump couldn't be "that bad" and were right: Trump would be worse.
2. someone who typically voted for Democrats for President except in landslides but voted for Trump and didn't like the result.
3. people scared of the foreign policy, domestic policy, despotic tendencies, or abrasive personality of Donald Trump
4. libertarian types who see crony capitalism even more dangerous than a welfare state

[TDAS04]

There are enough of them - Trump won MI, and so did Whitmer (by nearly 10 points). Either an otherwise blue voter who was enchanted by Trump's message but disillusioned by 2018, or a swing voter who succumbed to Trump's appeal and, in 2018, the national environment. Or maybe a female voter who likes the idea of a female governor.

But not a female president?

[Schiff for Senate]

There are enough of them - Trump won MI, and so did Whitmer (by nearly 10 points). Either an otherwise blue voter who was enchanted by Trump's message but disillusioned by 2018, or a swing voter who succumbed to Trump's appeal and, in 2018, the national environment. Or maybe a female voter who likes the idea of a female governor.

But not a female president?

She also really dislikes Hillary and really likes Trump's populism, so she voted for Trump. In 2018 the Republican nominee (Atty. General Bill Schuette) was just a mainstream, nonpopulist Republican, so she went for the popular Whitmer. I mean, Whitmer won by 9.5% in a state Trump won in 2016.

[TheElectoralBoobyPrize]

I'd be more curious to see a Trump '20/Whitmer '22 voter.....

[MargieCat]

I feel like the Trump-Whitmer voter would have voted for Biden in 2022.

Most likely a WWC democrat that hated Hillary but then had buyers remorse on Trump.

[pbrower2a]

The sort of swing voter who votes for a challenger to the incumbent Party in an open-seat election in the Presidential election (which is the norm for such swing voters as there are) and for gubernatorial races in Michigan. Michigan typically votes for two terms of a Democratic Governor followed by two terms for a Republican Governor. America elected Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Obama to two terms and came close to re-electing Trump.