Plenty of New Yorkers who voted for Zohran Mamdani in last month’s City Hall election previously backed Donald Trump at the ballot box, despite their obvious political differences, new data reveals
Yes, I agreed that it was a dissatisfaction thing, I was just commenting in the context of the whole thread where some are suggesting it’s because people have left the Trump cult or that it’s about charisma or whatever. This 1 in 10 figure is pretty standard now. I’ve made the argument previously that it really is more about ignorance than dissatisfaction, because truth be told I’m probably more dissatisfied than any of those crossover voters and I can actually list real specific reasons. You have to be really ignorant to think that this sort of crossover voting is good, regardless of if the person you’re voting for seems like an outsider or not. But yes, long story short, disruption seems to be a big part of it.
Yes, I agreed that it was a dissatisfaction thing, I was just commenting in the context of the whole thread where some are suggesting it’s because people have left the Trump cult or that it’s about charisma or whatever. This 1 in 10 figure is pretty standard now. I’ve made the argument previously that it really is more about ignorance than dissatisfaction, because truth be told I’m probably more dissatisfied than any of those crossover voters and I can actually list real specific reasons. You have to be really ignorant to think that this sort of crossover voting is good, regardless of if the person you’re voting for seems like an outsider or not. But yes, long story short, disruption seems to be a big part of it.