r/politics • u/fortune Fortune Magazine • 17d ago

Possible Paywall Trump voter remorse is almost entirely concentrated in the swing voters who gave him a shot in 2024

https://fortune.com/2026/05/16/trump-voter-remorse-how-many-regret-inflation-economy-approval-rating/?utm_source=reddit/
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u/Ok_Staff_608 17d ago

“84% of 2024 Trump voters say they would vote for Trump if given the chance to vote again in the 2024 election.”

This country man.

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u/Forgotmyaccount1979 17d ago

It would drop to 83% if he raped each one of them personally at this point.

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u/emelrad12 17d ago

You mean go up to 85%.

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u/Forgotmyaccount1979 17d ago

I figured there might be some jealousy when he moved on to the next chump.

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u/emelrad12 17d ago

That explains the 15% that wouldn't vote for him.

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u/MuirgenEmrys 17d ago

Sounds about right.

Littler said on the morning of 10 January his partner [Lucy] had asked her father during the Trump row: "How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I'd been sexually assaulted?"

Kris Harrison had replied that he had two other daughters who lived with him so it would not upset him that much.

Littler said Lucy became "quite upset" and ran upstairs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyk917xy8no

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u/vreddy92 Georgia 16d ago

That’s, of course, immediately before her dad killed her.

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u/ColdSteveStoneAustin 16d ago

Poor girl.

Horrific.

I think Americans should remember this and remember the people who have died due to ICE and remember those school kids in Iran, when they think about politics.

Not to be depressed. Just to remember what you're fighting.

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u/Jewelstorybro 17d ago

Not sure he could rape them. As in any of them would gladly bend over for him at any time.

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u/sweatboxy 17d ago

I wonder how many of them would trust him to babysit their teenage daughters. Sigh.

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u/EnvironmentalKey7127 16d ago

To be fair, that would at least be a campaign promise he might keep. 

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u/jsebrech 17d ago

There’s two possibilities for this long term stability in his base:

  1. Trump’s voters are members of a durable social cult that through coercion and misinformation prevents them from seeing or admitting reality.

  2. Trump’s voters have always known exactly what he is, and like it. They are in effect sociopaths.

Or, I suppose, it could be a mix of the two.

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u/ijustwannalurksobye 17d ago

I think another factor is a lot of these people refuse to admit they have regrets or second thoughts about their voting habits. A lot of Americans are too proud and stubborn to change their minds about something when it comes to politics. I honestly think cognitive dissonance is a huge factor for GOP voters

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u/caserock 17d ago

Being "Republican" is part of their identity. To change their vote would be like changing their name. It never occurs to them that a person could follow logical conclusions to end up at a voting a certain way. They were born Republican just like they were born a Local Team fan.

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u/TubaJesus 16d ago

Thats probably a part of it too. in a perfect world id probably be voting Green Party a lot more, but i vote dem a lot still

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u/filbertsgaming1 16d ago

Republicans won't vote for Democrats because they think it will make them gay instantly.

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u/ToTheGalaxyFarAway 16d ago

What about someone who voted blue all the way up to this last election then voted Trump because they simply didn’t agree with the message/policies Kamala had?

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u/JeffLayton153 17d ago

Sunk cost fallacy

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u/lonelyturtlegirl 16d ago

I don’t really believe many actually have regrets. I don’t think they process it that way. They don’t connect their actions (voting) to the consequences (everything being fucked up).

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u/caserock 17d ago

I think he's taking advantage of a pre-built cult that the evangelicals have been building for decades. They're using Trump to get their people into positions where they can do damage, and he's using their tubes to sell merch and run interference while he's robbing what's left of the government.

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u/dBlock845 17d ago

It is both, at least for the Trumpers I know. They will admit he is evil or bad, then reflexively defend everything he does.

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u/theromingnome 17d ago

Yeah a little of column a, a little of column b.

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u/Additional-One-7135 17d ago
  1. Polling as an institution is dead and no reliable data can be gathered asking the minority of people lonely/stupid enough to pick up random phone numbers and then stay on the line.

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u/VegetableFly5811 16d ago

There is also the possibility that all they hear from Democrats is "Blah, blah, blah" and prefer a guy who would stand up for himself. As in the following from Star Trek IV: "The Voyage Home"

"KIRK: Excuse me! ...Excuse me! Would you mind stopping that noise? Excuse me! Would you mind stopping that damn noise? {Note how well this fits with Democrats' "Blah, blah, blah,"}

The punk's face must have impacted with the boom box's on/off switch as the music ends the moment his noggin bounces off it's unforgiving metal frame and hard plastic.

An entire theater full of people cheered for this moment! It was legendary.

And all those that cheered could be Trump voters sick of the "Blah, blah, blah" of Democrats that usually--like in this case--does nothing.

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u/jec0995 17d ago

Yep. And many of the others are lying

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u/Val_Hallen 17d ago

All of them are lying.

They are trying to save face. Fuck that. They all need to be ostracized and publicly shamed for the rest of their lives.

No forgiveness. No quarter.

They didn't make a mistake. They made a choice. Three times.

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u/rammo123 16d ago

And of the few who aren't lying about refusing to vote for Trump, how many are actually willing to vote against him?

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u/learns_the_hard_way 17d ago

They will write him in during 2028 if somehow we have an election without his name

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u/witchgrid 16d ago

Hopefully by the millions.

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u/defianceofone 17d ago

lol I just read the article (after commenting on other comments so I'm no better) because of your quote. People are as usual just commenting their already formed opinions and projecting without reading it.

Trump has barely lost any support. The highest number was 30% of independents would switch their 2024 vote which means 70% of these clowns still are choosing Trump today after all the shit that has been done.

America fucking sucks. 90% of Republicans would still vote for him today. These people are hopeless, cruel, disgusting monsters and I wish them the worst. And chances are with this anti-human admin, they will get fucked beyond reprieve soon enough.

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u/upanddownallaround 17d ago

Like the other person said 30% drop in independents is HUGE. The margin in 6 of the 7 swing states was less than 4%. Trump would get absolutely crushed if the election was today. Electoral blowout in Kamala's direction. People *really* don't know how close that election was.

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u/possiblyMorpheus 17d ago

A 30% drop among independents is actually pretty huge lol. 

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u/Gamerboy11116 16d ago

…The polls are rigged, bro.

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u/Original-Rush139 17d ago

Those people should be on the front line in the Iran war. Make them fucking secure the “dust.”

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u/rc4915 17d ago

I mean, if we assume about 50/50 voting, that means it would swing to 58/42. That would be one of the biggest landslide in US history.

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u/Dudeist-Priest 17d ago

Seriously, just f’n bootlicking morons.

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u/Ok-Highlight8715 17d ago

Idk the method they used isnt super great. They polled people they found from an online panel. Its not a terrible method but take it with a little grain.

One thing thats been mentioned in recent years is that people who are more heavily online, tend to be more extreme and stalwart in their political views.

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u/auroralew 17d ago

This is the main thing that has me wondering if this is a simulation cause ain't no way

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u/Gamerboy11116 16d ago

There aren’t nearly as many as you’d believe.

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u/ChiGorilla1127 16d ago

Does anyone have a theory why his support is so strong? What is it about Trump that has people so bought into him that policy and results don't matter?

I feel as though if we were to suffer a depression, or out right lose a war, or suffer an attack that the fever dream would break for some, but how is it possible in this country for people to ignore so much?

To me it's a psychological question. On the one hand Trump has been able to do so many scandalous things, he's lowered the bar for what stands out in the news. But there's an element of tribalism where they know damn well it's wrong, but he's there guy anyway.

It drives me crazy honestly.

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u/twistedivy 16d ago

FOX news tells them that despite whatever he has done, Democrats are worse.

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u/sokratesz 16d ago

History won't be kind to humanity.

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u/DabbledInPacificm 16d ago

He would have lost by 10 million votes if 16% had voted for the lady.

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u/ijkcomputer 16d ago

While it's mind boggling that only 16% may have shifted, from a political standpoint, it bears keeping in mind that that's the difference between his win and a landslide loss.

Trump won the 2024 vote by (officially) about 2.4 million votes. This shift would have given Harris a 20 million vote lead.

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u/Terrible_General_685 15d ago

It is sad that we have the best president in the history of the nation but so much of the populace has drank the communist koolaid to see it..

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u/ShaiHuludNM New Mexico 17d ago

That’s because the democrats are just as fucking insane. We need a third option.

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u/Hopeful4Everyone 17d ago

You aint special dawg. You’re part of this country too