'Trump is a screaming lunatic': Reluctant Biden voters reveal why they'll back him in 2024

[Tom of Temecula]

The 2024 election is likely to turn on the decision of voters who are dissatisfied with both candidates — whether they stick with President Joe Biden, opt for former President Donald Trump, or simply stay home or vote for a third-party campaign. Many of those voters are Biden skeptics, but view him as the only answer, as AP interviews reveal — and it's not just Democrats, but independents too.

New data obtained by an Associated Press sponsored poll hints at what they are planning to do, and why. To begin with, reported Bill Barrow and Linley Sanders, "Democrats are more likely to report feeling 'fearful' or 'angry' about the prospects of another Trump term than Republicans are about the idea of Biden remaining in the White House," with roughly 7 in 10 Democrats versus just over half of Republicans.

Derrick Johnson, a Democratic voter in Michigan, told respondents he has frustrations with the president but, “Donald Trump is a madman. I’m afraid he’ll have us in World War III. My message is anybody but Trump.” And Neil Murray, a retired independent in Arkansas who backed Trump in 2016 but switched to Biden in 2020, says he finds Biden "disingenuous on some things" but will not hesitate to vote for him again because “Donald Trump is a screaming lunatic.”

All of this occurs against the backdrop of focus groupers finding swing voters appalled at Trump — though such surveys tend not to have representative samples — and of Republicans facing fury and defections from traditionally right-favoring suburban areas over attacks on women's rights. This was demonstrated this week when Democrats flipped a Republican suburban legislative district outside Huntsville, Alabama; their candidate Marilyn Lands, is an ex-Republican who campaigned aggressively on protecting in vitro fertilization.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-biden-2024-2667609163/

[Botany]

1. Trump is a screaming lunatic.... No kidding ... anybody who makes himself look like this is nucking futz

[yankee87]

8. Ketchup is scared

I'm glad people are finally waking up to World 1, as Nicole Wallace says.

[Xavier Breath]

2. Has to be one of the most accurate and illustrative descriptions of Trump I've ever heard. n/t

[AllaN01Bear]

3. too early to see that face . just ate breakfast. ding. agree w article .

[CrispyQ]

4. I didn't appreciate how prescient this cartoon was at the time.

[malaise]

5. THIS

Rec

[flashman13]

6. Trump is no accident. He is the Frankenstein monster that Repugs started assembling in the Nixon days.

[Hugin]

9. Now he's eating their faces.

I hope it was worth it for them.

[CrispyQ]

13. Hannibal Lecter without the grace & good manners.

We offered them two opportunities to get rid of him, one on a silver platter, but Mitch rejected both.

[Eyeball_Kid]

7. Trump: 21st Century Schizoid Man (From King Crimson, 1969)

[cayugafalls]

21. I thought I was going to see something scary...like another picture of the tang-turd.

Thank you for providing me with a safe space where the only horror I can see is a valid art piece by an IT guy like me...whew.

Peace and love of music is love.

[617Blue]

10. All things considered he's the worst human being this country has ever produced

All of the luck and advantages and privileges he's had and he emerges after 80 years on this planet with no positive human traits.

Worse thank Ted Bundy, worse than Charles Manson.

[dchill]

11. Exactly. Bundy and Manson were pikers...

...compared to Trump.

[StarryNite]

12. Quite frankly I'm getting sick and tired of the media

telling us we don't like Biden when it's the media constantly bad mouthing him over anything they can twist and turn into furthering their agenda. They need to start telling the truth about Biden and his accomplishments. I stand with Biden and I'm damn proud of it.

[Botany]

14. This is my guy. Joe Biden with a Ukrainian refugee girl in Poland in '22

[StarryNite]

15. Yes! Compassion and intelligence both

of which hump has none.

[Botany]

17. President Biden has had more pain than I can ever imagine and yet he keeps living his faith and

… that is to help his fellow people. Both here and worldwide.

[PatSeg]

19. What a great picture!

[ificandream]

16. Love the part at the bottom

Describes the Trump dilemma to a T.

[PatSeg]

18. Oh yes, really nailed it

I don't think I've heard him described better. Still it is kind of scary.

[LiberalFighter]

20. Biden will never be the perfect candidate.

But he is better than any alternative. He is trying to help everyone. Trump is not. And neither are any independent candidates.

What people also need to understand is that they may receive help when others are helped. Getting that Baltimore bridge rebuilt helps the rest of the country is an example.

[TBF]

22. No one will be perfect - but I cannot handle Christian nationalism

and Trump has decided it's his ticket to avoid jail. The thought of a Trump dictatorship and what it will do to women, not to mention minorities, in this country is enough for me to vote Biden.

[dickthegrouch]

23. Dissing the poll won't work

Point out all its statistical sampling errors. Make the pollsters perform defensible work