Trump voters now blame him for the government shutdown

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

Trump voters now blame him for the government shutdown

By Matt Viser January 21 at 11:00 AM

MACOMB COUNTY, Mich. — Two years ago, Jeff Daudert was fed up with politics. He wanted to shake up the status quo. He didn’t mind sending a message to the establishment — and, frankly, he liked the idea of a disruptive president.

But the 49-year-old retired Navy reservist has had some second thoughts.

“What the (expletive) were we thinking?” he asked the other night inside a Walmart here, in an area of blue-collar suburban Detroit that helped deliver Trump the presidency.

While Trump’s relationship with much of his base remains strong, two years after his inauguration his ties are fraying with voters like Daudert, the kind who voted in droves for Trump in 2016 in key pockets throughout the industrial Midwest and flipped previously Democratic states to him. The shutdown fight, as it has played out over the past month, is further eroding his support among voters who like the idea of beefing up border security, but not enough to close the government.

Many here, even those who still support Trump, say they hold him most responsible. They recite his comment from the Oval Office that he would be “proud to shut down the government.” When he said it, they listened.

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[IADEMO2004]

1. All my relative that have died were treated by MD's so if I'm sick I'll go to the bicycle shop.

The change I need right?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

2. Do enough of them blame him?

There are always going to be the diehards.

[lagomorph777]

3. There aren't enough of them to matter, if Turd faces re-election.

A prospect which is dimming anyway.