“For the first time in over 50 years of voting in presidential elections, I will not vote Republican.”
These are former Donald Trump voters. They supported him and his policies in the past. But now, they refuse to support him for president again. Watch them explain in their own words why they’re voting against their party to ensure that Trump never holds office again.
Trump Voter Testimonials
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"Kamala is a prosecutor. She is gonna uphold the rule of law. Trump tries to avoid the rule of law."
"He's a bad example for America, Americans, and our kids."
"I don't want them to be role models to, you know, my children."
"I don't think he believes in God."
"I think that the character contrast between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump is night and day."
"There’s just no way that I can support a man like Donald Trump."
"I will not be voting for Trump in 2024. He has proven himself to be unfit for the presidency."
"I can't have an a*****e be my president."
"I will not be voting for Trump because he is a felon and he poorly represents my country."
"He's a threat to democracy. He's a threat to everything that the American people hold dear."
"Either he's extremely naive and stupid, or he has malicious and evil intent."
"I don't think he has the citizens' best interests in mind at all."
"He completed none of his campaign promises."
"We could have a convicted felon in the White House."
"I find him narcissistic power hungry, and vindictive."
"Not ever going to vote for Trump, 'cause I am not gonna allow there to be a Project 2025."
"Trump's first priority is Donald J. Trump."
"This guy is not a Republican."
"He just has no respect for the office that he holds, and I cannot vote for him ever again."
"I don't believe that Trump represents a true conservative Republican."
"I'm embarrassed to see what Donald Trump has done."
"Trump consistently betrayed the American people preferring his own interests."
"And maybe this loss will tell the Republican party, enough's enough."
"He has said things that make it very clear he feels that he's above the Constitution."
"You don't have to be a Democrat to vote for Kamala this time. You just have to be an American."
"He's going to cozy up to the dictators more."
"He doesn't care about immigration. It's a massive grift."
"He just keeps creating all this chaos and mayhem."
"I feel the Republican party has really lost its way."
"I do not want to follow a gangster leader that thinks he knows everything when he generally doesn't."
"The best way for this chaos to stop is to get rid of Trump."
"I have a very difficult time voting for Donald Trump because he has no integrity."
"His words incited that insurrection and his inaction spoke volumes."
"But would Donald Trump stop the violence? No, Donald Trump's dereliction of duty was beyond imagination."
"I don't think he has the best heart of the United States in mind at all."
"This cult worship that we're seeing. We have to defeat it once and for all."
"He has sacrificed nothing and he is willing to sacrifice everyone else for his own benefit."
"He wants to divide us. He wants hatred to rule."
"He is not running for the American people. He is running for himself, and he always has."
"He learned he could divide the country, and he was on a power trip."
"No matter who runs against them, I think we're better off."
"I think it's incredible that we're even considering a felon."
"We have a prosecutor who respects the rule of law and a felon who wants to get his bail bonds taken care of."
"He and his cronies will do anything and everything they can to benefit themselves."
"I do not feel like he would be bound by the Constitution. I think he has little to no respect for our traditions and norms."
"He is a person that has no redeeming values."
"Most Americans are more qualified than Donald Trump."
"I don't wanna live in a theocracy. I don't want a king."
"I cannot in good conscience vote for anyone who would threaten to suspend the Constitution."
"He is a fraud. He is a con man."
"I just cannot make myself vote for someone who abuses Christianity, the way that Donald Trump has."
"You can't trust Trump and you can't trust Vance. Neither of them stick to their issues."
"Person running for the presidency of the United States for one reason, one reason only to keep himself out jail."
"He seems to be more dangerous, more dark, more interested in personal vendettas."
"I do blame Trump for the violence that took place on January 6th."
"Trump has made it very easy to cross the line and pull the lever for a Democrat."
"Trump is a proven criminal, he is a felon, he is guilty of 34 felonies so far."
"I have been so disappointed in Donald Trump for the lying, for the disrespect of women, and for the name-calling."
"I don't think my daughters will have a better world if Trump is elected. I think that their freedoms will be revoked."
"I really didn't appreciate JD Vance's comments about 'childless cat ladies.' Not all of us have children, but that doesn't make a woman lesser."
"He's a bigot. He's a racist to the max. And he's very selfish."
"I swore an oath to defend democracy and the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And he is a threat to democracy."
"The failure to certify the 2020 election results was simply unacceptable."
"He's a tyrant, a fascist, and a demagogue."
"He complains and he whines. He blames other people. He denies the truth."
"I think his policies are only based on what benefits him."
"I just don’t see myself ever voting for Donald Trump, even to be the dog catcher."
"Trump is only for Trump."
"I don't think I'll ever vote for Trump again for anything, not even dog catcher."
"He's a power hungry individual. He'll do anything he needs to do to be President again."
"I was appalled by the fact that he tried to overthrow an election."
"No dictator in history has ever ruled for one day."
"He obviously does not know what it means to sacrifice, to serve... because it's always about him."
"And I don't think that Trump is the best, person for the job in 2024."
"I will never, ever vote for this man again after what happened at our Capitol building."
"I blame Donald J. Trump for what happened on January 6th, specifically because I believe that he felt he was above the constitution."
"Denying the election results and January 6th. It just, it was so much that I wasn't sure if I could maintain my identity as a Republican."
"I also do not like the way he seems to spew deceit and lies, and you cannot trust anything he's saying."
"He has hijacked the Republican party. He is now attempting to hijack our country."
"I'm not a Democrat, but I will not vote for Donald Trump."
"We've got to make sure Trump does not try to destroy our democracy."
"I think Trump would a hundred percent love to be a dictator of a country."
"No more felons. No more space lasers. It's weird and it's embarrassing and it's dangerous."
"He even wants to be a dictator. I don't wanna be under a dictator."
"I have an issue with convicted felons holding any office, much less the President of the United States."
"As a Christian, my vote is an endorsement. It's my stamp of approval."
"To me, if you want him leading your country, you are pretty much just like him."
"Besides being a coward and not a good leader, he is a criminal."
"You have to vote for the person that's gonna do the least damage to the country."
"Another Trump term would be a disaster for the country in so many fronts."
"He is a liar on top of the fact that he's a 34 time convicted felon."
"I know the second Trump term is gonna be a lot worse than his first term."
"I've watched Donald Trump campaign this year, I'm constantly filled with dread."
"I don't think Trump has any respect for any laws, let alone the supreme law of the land, the Constitution."
"[Trump] wanted to cancel an election because he couldn't take a loss like a man."
"I was worried about Hillary's baggage in 2016, now look at Trump."
"It terrifies me that a convicted felon could be the President of the United States."
"Trump is not going to be bound by our laws. He feels like he's above them."
"Donald Trump is everything that I don't believe in."
"Donald Trump is not in touch with the middle class."
"Trump talks about America first, but every time he opens his mouth and says these kind of things praising authoritarianism."
"We have a country with rules, and he doesn't even understand the rule of law."
"I have to protect this country from people like Donald Trump."
"The policies that Donald Trump is suggesting are dangerous to America."
"I cannot support Trump again because I've seen him in action."
"The President of the United States should be a person that people can look up to"
"I'm voting for the future for my grandchildren. And it would not be a better place because of Donald Trump."
"The best thing is we have a new granddaughter. And this is not a world that I want for her."
"Letting Trump back in the White House is like letting the fox guard the hen house."
"He's too disgusting to vote for."
"He is the antithesis of what we need to have, who we need to have, running our country."
"Trump should not be in any leadership position at all. He should not be the president of the United States."
"I cannot and will not support a man that wants to become a dictator and suspend the Constitution."
"It's all about Donald Trump. It's not about America."
"Trump would absolutely, 100% sign a federal abortion ban."
"He has poisoned America."
"Trump is to blame for what happened on January 6th."
"He helped instigate a coup against the United States."
"Just because you're a Christian doesn't mean you have to be a Republican."
"I can't vote for a man like that to be president of the greatest and most powerful nation on earth."
"All they're talking about is things that are not gonna help America, it's gonna hurt America."
"Choosing a guy like JD Vance just reinforces my concern for dictatorship."
"I wouldn't allow him to date my daughter, so why would I want him to be president of my country?"
"I believe that former President Trump has damaged our democracy terribly."
"Voting for Trump is a non-starter for me."
"The way that Trump treats other people is an issue for me."
"He wouldn't qualify to deliver pizzas, much less be president of the United States."
"He just turned into such a mean-spirited person."
"I would vote for someone who's not a Christian, but I won't vote for someone who pretends to be, and misuses Christianity."
"If Trump gets in, I don't want to be around to see it."
"He didn't lift a damn finger to call off that mob."
"For the first time in my long life, I'm gonna have to vote for a Democrat."
"My personal mantra, anybody but Trump."
"If there is a candidate that does not stand for all Americans, then how can that person really make America great?"
"I see a president that's gonna cause a civil war."
"Donald Trump is the death knell of the Republican party."
"I don't want anyone in power who's gonna look at the Constitution as optional."
"He's not a man of conviction. I think he's a man of convenience."
"I don't think I have a good enough imagination to really understand what he's capable of."
"He didn't care about the Constitution at all. He cared about Donald Trump."
"America's Constitution doesn't have room for emperors."
"I think when Trump says that he will be a dictator on day one, I believe that's what he will be."
"He intimidates, cheats, he lies and steals. He's completely unpredictable and untrustworthy."
"He doesn't have the kind of character we need sitting in the White House."
"He keeps talking about retribution and getting even and getting back."
"Democracy is difficult, but we fought for it for so long and we are at a serious point of losing it."
"He sat idly by and did nothing while our capitol was being destroyed."
"Former President Trump is very much in support of dictators around the world."
"He is a lying SOB, everything he says is a lie."
"I cannot imagine how anyone with any respect for the law at all would support a man like that to be our president."
"Everything that Trump does is all about himself, there's no feeling that he's in it for America."
"Trump made everything about himself about what he did. That to me, was not leadership."
"We saw what happened on January 6th, but something worse could even happen."
"I think that he'd sell out the country, honestly. I really do."
"I will not be voting for Trump due to Project 2025."
"I don't hate him, but I'm not buying into this crap."
"Trump's just a liar, and Kamala really knows how to stand up to a liar."
"Trump's become a one person show which if you just look at history across the world, that always leads to disaster."
"He is an absolute danger hazard and a threat to public health, and that is my primary concern as a physician."
"I found his presidency to be a force for chaos."
"I draw the line at sexual assault for the leader of my country."
"Donald Trump's the biggest threat to democracy this country's had since the Civil War."
"He's just further driving a wedge between people."
"Beyond protecting our democracy, which seems very abstract, we need to protect ourselves."
"A convicted felon being the president of the United States is ridiculous."
"It's not about policy or culture, it's about the man."
"Mr. Trump is a liar."
"I do believe that Trump is the most dangerous man in America."
"I do not believe he is a fit representative of the values and traditions we hold dear."
"It is just incredibly awful the way he's treated veterans and yes, I'm a Navy veteran, so it is extremely disappointing."
"Donald Trump expressing his wish to terminate the Constitution is one of the most egregious things I think you could even do."
"I will be voting for Joe Biden because I think that it is my moral responsibility to vote for the person who has the best chance of defeating Donald Trump."
"I cannot vote for Donald Trump because he epitomizes the worst of the people that we are."
"He's told us what he plans to do, and I think we need to listen to him."
"I mean, he's just a total embarrassment."
"Republicans have become everything that they rallied against and even worse."
"We can't have him in office again. It would be obviously a risk to our democracy. I would be afraid for our freedoms."
"If I had handled those documents the way Trump did [...] I would be calling from jail."
"If you go against him or what he believes, he'll stab you in the back."
"[Trump] has persuaded me this year to vote Democrat for the first time in over 50 years."
"Let's dump Donald Trump."
"I cannot support Trump any longer."
"Trump, he cares nothing for our military except what he can get out of it."
"The classified documents really concern me."
"Donald Trump is a fascist, Donald Trump is a felon, Donald Trump is a pathological liar, and he has no business leading the GOP."
"The events of January 6th forced me to reexamine why I was supporting Donald Trump."
"Trump is 100% responsible for what happened on January 6th."
"He is totally unfit for the office of the president. He's a convicted felon."
"You're gonna be a dictator on day one, you're gonna be a dictator on the first day of your third and fourth term as well."
"I pray that you vote for Joe Biden this year 'cause we do not need Donald Trump in the White House."
"I will not be voting for any MAGA candidates again."
"Donald Trump would be devastating for America."
"I don't understand how he can befriend Putin."
"America is based on certain principles. Donald Trump does not have any of those principles or values as a person."
"I blame Trump for the violence that took place on January 6th."
"I do not want to vote for a dictator."
"You don't want your kids raised to see him as an example of what a president is."
"Donald Trump has absolutely no respect for the office of president, nor does he have respect for the American people."
"Donald Trump has proven time and time again that he should be nowhere near the Oval Office."
"I will never, ever vote for him again."
"I've never been impressed by Donald Trump. He just rubs me the wrong way from the very beginning."
"We don't have a dictator, we are a democracy."
"I just don't trust who he is and what he says, and I don't think he'll be good for democracy."
"Donald Trump is more focused on being in power than serving."
"I'm not voting for Trump because his character does not suit the presidency."
"Trump stating that he wants to overturn the Constitution should be clanging bells and alarms for everyone in this nation."
"If Biden and the Democrats had done what Trump and the Trumpers did, how would you feel?"
"He feels that he should have complete power to do whatever he wants."
"There's only one person that's ever attempted to really overthrow an election or to cheat in an election, and that is Donald Trump."
"Donald Trump's second term, if he got into office, would be more about revenge."
"He's just not good for America."
"I think a second Trump term would be worse than the first."
"I think that Trump used a lot of Christians for his own gain."
"As Republicans, we have to make a choice.... Are we going to help democracy? Are we going to help the rule of law?"
"Dictatorships do not belong in America."
"I cannot vote for someone who chronically and habitually tells lies."
"Under no circumstances could I, as a Christian and as a mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother...vote for Donald Trump again."
"He really didn't try to do anything when they were saying 'hang Mike Pence.'"
"In the 2024 election, I want to support a Republican. I will never support Donald Trump."
"I lost faith in him by his actions on January 6th."
"Trump lost and he is a poor loser."
"I would vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for Trump. He definitely wants to be a dictator."
"This guy is not fit for the presidency of the United States."
"Donald Trump has shown he has no regard for the laws of this country."
"We can survive four years of Biden, I don't know if we can survive four years of Trump."
"Donald Trump has become somebody who focuses entirely on hate and retribution."
"He is a convicted felon. He is an adjudicated rapist. He was a horrible leader."
"I think the fact that Trump is facing 91 felonies and the four indictments sets a horrible example to the next generation."
"Trump has called for termination of the Constitution."
"It is so evident that he is a narcissist who is destroying our country."
"The idea of a second Trump term is scary to me."
"The problem with Trump is he's got some halfway decent ideas, but he can't articulate 'em because he's essentially a child."
"The reason I'm not voting for Trump this year would be, in part, due to the legal battles he's dealing with."
"Trump doesn't really represent my Christian values at all."
"I despise Trump and his whole attitude towards the military. Trump is a gutless coward who would last five minutes in a combat zone."
"What the Republican party has become, it's become MAGA, it's become Donald Trump."
"He should not be able to be the commander in chief of our military, or run our country in any way."
"When Trump talks about being dictator for day one, it really bothers me."
"He tried to overturn that election. That for me, as an American, is totally unforgivable."
"I cannot support Donald Trump again given his entire reaction to the his 2020 loss."
"Trump is a threat to the Constitution, a domestic threat to the Constitution."
"I'll do whatever it takes to keep Trump out of power."
"It is a sad state to think about America having a president that's a felon."
"He is running on hate, retribution, and fear, and settling the score."
"January 6th had a huge effect on me."
"I'm not leaving the Republican party... the Republican Party under Donald Trump is leaving me."
"Trump tends to be a bully, somewhat of a dictator trying to be king of the United States."
"If Trump were elected, I would be embarrassed that this country would put him back in office."
"Donald Trump and JD Vance as our executive leaders would I think put our country our way of life at great risk."
"Trump ... just seems to get worse every time he talks."
"Trump's just blatant disrespect for veterans in the military is well documented."
"He's a narcissist. Everybody knows that."
"I can no longer support him either as a politician or a person."
"Trump cannot be trusted anywhere near the seat of power ever again."
"The fact that Trump says he wants to do away with the Constitution, to me, is mind blowing."
"This was an insurrection, and it was led by Donald Trump."
"He lost, and January 6th is a disgrace, a stain on our history."
"He squashes people for their First Amendment rights."
"There's a possibility that he could go to prison."
"He's a narcissistic toddler."
"I just don't trust him."
"I have a real problem with Donald Trump right now."
"He will do everything in his power to become a dictator."
"I do not see how any Republican could ever support someone like Trump."
"I think Donald Trump would love to be a dictator."
"He's a narcissist. He's egotistical. He believes he's above the law."
"He wants to be an authoritarian leader of the United States."
"I do not believe he cares about the Constitution. I do not believe he cares about this country. I believe he cares about himself."
"Trump's election denialism is the most scary thing about him and his potential future administration."
"I'm not gonna vote for Donald Trump because character matters."
"A second Trump term would just be a disaster."
"That whole Project 2025 thing, is just frightening."
"We can get through four more years of Joe Biden…I don’t know that I can say the same thing about four more years of former President Trump."
"I believe very strongly that Trump does not deserve to be the chief executive again."
"It’s very clear Trump lives in an absolutely binary world. It is a world that is fueled by greed, vengeance, immorality."
"He incited the attack on the Capitol on January 6th to overturn an election that he lied about losing."
"His love of Vladimir Putin scares me."
"He wants to be a dictator on day one."
"We're talking about possibly the most powerful office in the world occupied by a crazy man."
"It's going to be the first term on steroids."
"I think that we could lose our democracy if he is president."
"I would be scared to death if Donald Trump were to be re-elected."
"January 6th absolutely made me know that I would never vote for him ever again."
"He's not interested in promoting what's in the United States' best interest. He's more interested in promoting what's in Donald Trump's best interest."
"I think Donald Trump is very egotistical. I think he's a narcissist."
"He did a great deal to disrupt NATO and I think he destroyed some of the confidence our allies have had in us."
"When Trump claims to be religious, but some of his actions seem to be opposed to Christian values, it really bothers me."
"I cannot vote for a man who has belittled the fighting men and women of our country."
"He's looking for on day one, retribution. That scares me as a veteran."
"A president of the United States exists to serve the people of the United States, not to be the retribution."
"I will not support someone who favors dictators around the world and encourages that, who refuses to support our own allies."
"He incited an insurrection and violated his oath that he took on the Constitution."
"January 6th was a real breaking point for this veteran and citizen."
"He has no regard for anybody other than himself."
"Trump is not a savior. He is not a Messiah. He is not one that is going to bring peace on earth. Please don't vote for Trump."
"I do not like the way he has spoken about women, especially women of power."
"Donald Trump is a man who is after his own ambitions."
"His character is not presidential whatsoever."
"I'm so ready to be rid of the chaos, anger, and division created by one man."
"I'm a retired naval officer and I'm concerned about the future of our country."
"I have not ever voted Democrat, but as of right now, my plans are vote for President Joe Biden."
"He calls the people who are insurrectionist heroes and he wants to pardon them."
"He's supposed to be the president for everybody, and he's not."
"I have resolved to vote against President Trump."
"January 6th was the final straw because that is not what America is like."
"He has created a divide within the country."
“I did vote for Trump in 2016 . . . and I have no intention of voting for him in 2024.”