MAGAs Are Freaking Out Because Trump Is Cutting Their Benefits

A lot of Trump's MAGA voters are melting down because the guy they voted for wants to cut or eliminate their benefits.

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There has long been a fallacy about Trump voters that they are mostly uneducated, rural, and poor. This was not true in the 2024 election. An AP analysis revealed that 56% of Trump’s vote came from cities (14%) and suburbs (42%). The remaining 44% came from rural America.

In terms of education, 32% of Trump voters had a high school diploma or less, while 33% had some college education, and 35% had a college (23%) or post-secondary degree (12%). In contrast, Kamala Harris’s support was evenly split between high school or less and some college (49%) and college grad or post-grad voters (49%).

It could be argued that Democrats did a better job of appealing across education levels, but Trump got more voters out to support him among his base and Republican leaners.

There are two factors that explain why MAGA is going to be hit harder by the Trump cuts than the rest of the country. First, programs like Medicaid have higher usage in some red states due to higher rates of poverty in many states where Trump’s support is the strongest.

In a video collection of clips of Trump voters freaking out about their benefits being cut, there are a lot of Southern accents, including a woman who took to TikTok to say, “I need somebody to tell me they’re lying right now because what the f**k do they mean? I’m not going to get my SNAP benefits.”

A farmer was complaining that his family might lose his farm because Trump froze funding for the government contract and program that they rely on. An educator said that the voters did not vote for federal education cuts because that would result in a worse situation in their schools.

Donald Trump said exactly what he was going to do while campaigning, so why do his supporters think that he didn’t mean them and their benefits?

We’ll talk about the answer below.