There is probably a significant number of voters who defected to Trump after voting for Obama and there is speculation that the significant common factor between the two is their perceived status as outsiders.
There is probably a significant number of voters who defected to Trump after voting for Obama and there is speculation that the significant common factor between the two is their perceived status as outsiders.
I think the biggest common factor between the two is their shared open opposition to illegal immigration from Mexico.
Barack Obama: “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”
There is probably a significant number of voters who defected to Trump after voting for Obama and there is speculation that the significant common factor between the two is their perceived status as outsiders.
I think the biggest common factor between the two is their shared open opposition to illegal immigration from Mexico.
Barack Obama: “We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently, and lawfully to become immigrants in this country.”
He wasn't all talk, deporting more illegal immigrants than any President in American history https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/obamas-mixed-legacy-immigration
You are also correct that there are numerous voters who voted for Obama for two terms and then for Trump in 2016 (https://www.npr.org/2016/11/15/502032052/lots-of-people-voted-for-obama-and-trump-heres-where-in-3-charts; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obama%E2%80%93Trump_voters), a data point which I think almost entirely undermines the claim that Trump was elected on a white supremacy/neo-Nazi platform.
My husband was one of these voters.
While not being a registered voter, I followed that exact trajectory, albeit for slightly different reasons.