Pennsylvania Voter: Two Years Ago, Everybody Hated Trump, Now They Say They’ll Vote for Him

CAMPOS-DUFFY: “ — in front of a grocery store. How has inflation affected your family?”
UNKNOWN MALE 1: “Very much. Very much so. Everything going up high.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 1: “Really high. Excruciatingly high.”
UNKNOWN MALE 2: “I can afford hardly anything.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 2: “Grocery prices go up, and then everything goes up.”
UNKNOWN MALE 3: “I don’t feel like there’s a balance with, like, income versus being able to spend your money.”
UNKNOWN MALE 4: “Expensive.”
CAMPOS-DUFFY: “Everything’s expensive?”
UNKNOWN MALE 4: “Everything. All the time.”
UNKNOWN MALE 5: “It affects everyone. Gas is high. Businesses are going to pass on their expenses to people.”
CAMPOS-DUFFY: “What do your customers tell you about how the economy is affecting them?”
UNKNOWN MALE 6: “So, compared to my family’s stories, everything was mostly cash and they would pay in full. What we notice here is a lot of it is financing or layaway.”
UNKNOWN MALE 7: “Under President Trump, it was better. There was more people spending money. People were traveling more, spending, getting [inaudible] more often.”
CAMPOS-DUFFY: “What kind of adjustments have you had to make in your own life, your own family, your home, in order to make ends meet?”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 1: “Cooking different.”
CAMPOS-DUFFY: “How?”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 1: “Can’t eat what you really want.”
UNKNOWN MALE 1: “Trying to get work on the side, you know, beside my job, doing other work.”
CAMPOS-DUFFY: “This town is 54% Hispanic, you are Peruvian. When you talk to your neighbors, what are you hearing?”
UNKNOWN MALE 7: “More Latino voters, Indian voters, they are moving more into the right, more into Donald Trump.”
UNKNOWN MALE 8: “Two years ago, everybody hated him. Now majority are like, ‘No, I’m voting for Trump.’”
CAMPOS-DUFFY: “Really?”
UNKNOWN MALE 8: “Yes. Yes, really.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 2: “I was a Democrat and I started to realize the policies that I was voting in wasn’t my standard, so what I believed.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 3: “The Republican Party had the values that we hold dear: that is God, family, life.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 4: “You’ll be surprised. I used to do registration. A lot of people changed parties to go to the Republican Party instead of the Democrats.”
UNKNOWN MALE 3: “I’m a registered Democrat. I was on the fence. I was going to vote for Trump. Current moment right now, the way everything is going, I still need to see what is on the table.”
CAMPOS-DUFFY: “Who are you voting for this year?”
UNKNOWN MALE 5: “President Donald Trump.”
CAMPOS-DUFFY: “You’re more open to voting for someone other than the Democrat ticket this time than last time?”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 6: “There’s a possibility.”
UNKNOWN MALE 1: “I’ve seen a lot of people leaning towards Trump right now.”
CAMPOS-DUFFY: “Even people who were Biden before?”
UNKNOWN MALE 1: “Even people that were Biden, you know.”
UNKNOWN MALE 7: “I’m hoping that President Trump wins again.”
CAMPOS-DUFFY: “So were the tips higher when Trump was in office.”
UNKNOWN MALE 7: “Oh, of course.”
UNKNOWN MALE 8: “We’ve gotta get Trump into office.”
CAMPOS-DUFFY: “You think that’ll fix the problem?”
UNKNOWN MALE 8: “I know it will.”