Trump Voters on Medicaid Feel Betrayed, But Some Still Wouldn't Have Voted for Harris
With the highest percentage (67%) of Medicaid users in the country, Trump voters in a rural CA district expressed feeling betrayed by his deadly cuts, but some still wouldn't have voted for Harris.
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With the highest percentage (67%) of Medicaid users in the country, Trump voters in California's district 22, a rural community in the state's Central Valley, expressed feeling betrayed by Donald Trump’s deadly Medicaid cuts, but some still wouldn't have voted for then V.P. Kamala Harris.
Let’s dive in deeper to the “disappointed/betrayed Trump voter” narrative that is so prevalent right now, this time to explore what has so captivated these voters that even with their own lives on the line, some say they simply would not have voted in the election instead of voting for Kamala Harris.
A More Perfect Union interviewed residents of US House District 22 in California who feel betrayed by Trump's administration's plan to cut Medicaid, which they rely on for healthcare. The conversations highlighted the severe financial strain and potential devastation for those who depend on Medicaid — and yet, still.
Still.
At least former Trump voter says if she had it to do over again, she just wouldn’t have voted.
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2024 Trump voter Irma Arredondo, a 64-year-old farm worker, who’s concerned about Trump’s Medicaid cuts affecting her chronic health issues, including type one diabetes, and ability to care for her daughter who has cerebral palsy. Even with these basic needs being threatened by Trump’s cuts, Arredondo would not vote for Kamala Harris.
Reporter: If you could go back to November, who would you vote for? Now, seeing what you see.
Irma Arredondo: Not either one.
Reporter: You just wouldn't have voted.
Arredondo: Not either.
“The medicine that my daughter took for seizures, I won't be able to afford it so we we feel hopeless if those cuts come,” Arredondo said.
“Trump promised a lot of things. I thought it will be more family values and those programs that really need them,” the farm worker explained.
Another resident wearing a camo hat with a dark blue American flag (associated with the military, support for police, and often Trump) mentioned making $800 a month, while his medication costs $20,000 a month without insurance, which would kill him if he lost his insurance.
“My medication, it runs $20,000 a month without insurance. I make $800 a month. Oh, that will kill me. That would kill my friends. That would kill millions of people in this country if they lose their healthcare,” he said.
As I wrote yesterday, these voters have their literal lives on the line, and the lives of their family and friends. And still. At least in Irma’s case, she would have chosen not to vote at all, thereby throwing the election more toward Trump, rather than secure her own future and life and that of her child.
It should also be astonishing that people in this country see Donald Trump as the “family values” candidate — married three times, cheated on his recently pregnant third wife with a porn star, accused of being a creep in Miss Teen USA dressing rooms, Access Hollywood tape catching him saying of any woman who appeals to him, “You can grab them by the p*ssy,” and a former Playboy model (Karen McDougal) having alleged she had a 10-month affair with Donald Trump in 2006.
How is his lifestyle choice indicative of “family values”?
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