Why This Former Trump Voter Says It Is The President’s ‘Worst Nightmare’ And Endorses Biden In November

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Jay Copan could well be President Donald Trump’s “worst nightmare,” as he describes himself.

The 68-year-old grandfather is a registered independent voter in North Carolina, a state that voted for former President Barack Obama in 2008, and then went to Trump in 2016.

Although Copan is a registered independent, he is considered fiscally and socially conservative. “I have voted in 12 presidential elections, and 10 of those times I have voted for the Republican candidate,” he says in a recent interview with The independent. “The last Democrat I voted for was Jimmy Carter in 1976.”

“I voted for Trump in 2016, and I absolutely will not vote for him in 2020,” says Copán. “I have not voted for a Democrat since 1976, but I will vote for Joe Biden in 2020.”

Trump’s slow response to the coronavirus pandemic and his lack of leadership around racial tensions in the US after George Floyd’s police assassination finally led Copan to decide that he will vote against the Republican incumbent in the next election. , Explain.

Trump was perfectly positioned to win Copan’s vote in the 2020 election, if he had somehow managed to control his more impulsive and erratic behaviors.

There is a list of policies that the independent voter says he supports that the president proposed throughout the campaign and then implemented it during his first years in office. For starters, Copan is a fan of the president’s tax cuts. It also supports the administration’s reduced regulations on business and its similar agenda toward energy policy.

Copán also says he supported the president’s list of potential Supreme Court justices, which Trump released throughout the 2016 campaign (he has since promised to stay on a similar list in 2020), as well as his court candidates. lower.

“As a fiscal and social conservative, you could support many of these policies even though many other people do not,” says Copán. “But at the end of the day, his lack of leadership outweighs any policy he can support.”

Copan says his disdain for Trump has been “brewing almost from the first day” of his presidency, but the “beginning of the end” came when he continued to launch attacks on former Senator John McCain after taking over the Oval Office.

“It is outrageous,” says the voter, recalling all the times that Trump launched inflammatory comments on the former senator, a Vietnam War veteran who suffered torture as a prisoner in Vietnam and died of brain cancer.

“I consider McCain to be a true American hero,” says Copan. “Every day, the comments [Trump] It would be amazing: I couldn’t believe he was saying these things. The drama it would create is unnecessary. ”

Copán says he has to think about his grandchildren when he casts his vote at the polls on Election Day: “Donald Trump is a sociopath, a bully, a misogynist, a pathological liar. I can’t explain that kind of behavior to my grandchildren. “

Copán says he has decided in recent months to become more politically involved as part of his effort to rid the country of Trump in 2020; He has joined a growing group called Republican Voters Against Trump and began speaking publicly against the President.

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In addition, Copán believes that there are others like him.

“There are a large number of Northern Carolinians who regret voting for Trump in 2016,” he says. “You see a lot of these people involved with the Lincoln Project and the Republican voters against Trump. He didn’t beat North Carolina that much, and Obama beat North Carolina. We are clearly a purple state. “

Copán concludes: “I think we have enough independents and Republicans who are going to vote for Biden in 2020 and make North Carolina blue.”