We previously wrote about a media-driven campaign to make viewers and readers believe that a growing number of people who voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election regretted their vote.
Leading the way with this narrative was, of course, CNN, which interviewed some self-described Trump voters in West Virginia who lost their jobs in the federal workforce and who said they now regretted their choice.
“I was a MAGA junkie, a MAGA junkie who thought her government job would be safe with Donald Trump in office,” Bureau of Fiscal Service employee Jennifer Pigott, who was handed her walking papers, told the network.
“I expected better from you. I really did,” she also said.
Another former employee who didn’t want her name used reconsidered her vote, telling them, “I’m not sure that I would have [voted for Trump], and the way that it’s been done… I’m for balancing the budget, that type of thing, but not, not in this context, it’s just not right.”
Business Insider ran a similar story, quoting one Veterans Affairs employee as saying, “I feel betrayed. This is not what I wanted, to let everybody lose their job. ‘You’re fired. You’re fired. You’re fired.’ This is not ‘The Apprentice.'”
Unfortunately for the media spin machine, fresh polling indicates that the supposed groundswell of regretful Trump voters is pretty close to non-existent.
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten broke down the numbers during a Wednesday morning “News Central” segment, effectively debunking his own network in the process:
I mean, this is the big question, right? I hear all these stories, all these articles, all the Trump voters, they regret what they did back in 2024. I’m here to tell you, uh-uh, very few of them regret what they did back in 2024. What are we talking about? Trump voters looking back at 2024. We got a new poll out. The poll was conducted this month. What percentage would change their vote to a different candidate? We’re talking just 2 percent, just 2 percent. That’s not even a wide spot on the road.And then there’s this additional 1 percent who say they would rather not vote. We’re talking overall under 5 percent might or would have changed their vote, Donald Trump voters back in 2024. And then you ask, OK, the same question to Kamala Harris voters. And it turns out the numbers are rather similar. So, if there was a repeat, if folks got to be able to redo their vote that they had back in 2024, would the result be any different? I doubt it would be. I doubt it would be or it would still be extremely close.The bottom line is, for all this talk of Trump voters regretting their vote, in the numbers, it really just doesn’t show up, John.
As to how this compares to Trump’s first term in office, the current numbers are actually even better:
OK, so, you know, I was interested in sort of an historical analogy here, sort of, does this look similar or different from back in 2017 looking at 2016? Well, in February of 2017, 4 percent – 4 percent of Trump voters say they’d shift their vote. That’s actually slightly more than the [2] percent this time around. So, you know, you look back, you say, OK, there’s these Trump voters who really regret their vote. Historically speaking, they really don’t regret their vote. And if anything, the number this time around is actually smaller than it was the first time around. And it’s certainly smaller than the number we saw coming out of 2020, of course, after the events of January 6th.So, the bottom line is this, if there’s some idea out there that Trump voters are going around, ‘man, I wish I had voted for Kamala Harris instead of Donald Trump,’ the numbers say that is a fanciful universe. It really, for the most part, does not exist.
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Did you hear that? That’s the sound of another bogus TDS-driven media narrative about Trump swirling down the drain.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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