Why These Obama Voters Are Backing Donald Trump

CNN
Feb. 08, 2016

When retired elementary school teacher Joan Chase casts her ballot for Trump this year, it will be the first time that the 70-year-old has ever voted for a Republican. She voted for Obama in both 2008 and 2012.

At a recent Trump rally in Farmington, Chase said the immense inspiration she once felt watching the president soured over the years, turning into irreversible disappointment.

"I thought he was the hope, only to find out he's not carried through with what he led people to believe," she said. "He seems to be just undecided and I don't know -- weak.

Her partner Harry Harrison, a Vietnam veteran who also voted twice for the president, interjected from beside her to criticize Obama's "hopey, changey thing." Unlike Chase, Harrison has largely supported Republican candidates in his life — the only other Democrat he ever backed for president was John F. Kennedy. Trump, he said, is the country's "last hope."

"I feel totally betrayed," Harrison said of Obama. "If we don't see a Trump in this Oval Office, I don't think this country will survive to see another election as the country we knew it and the country I fought for."

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