“Donald Trump is not representative of the Republican Party that I fell in love with.”
Michael
“I have to congratulate our senator, Sen. Susan Collins, for doing the right thing, for having the courage to stand up for the rule of law and to say ‘enough is enough.’ I applaud her for her actions, & the other GOP senators who did the same thing.”
Mark
“I’ve looked upon the North Carolina Republican Party with dismay for their censure of Senator Richard Burr. All he did was listen to the evidence against Donald Trump and vote the facts and his convictions.”
Addy
“I joined this party because I thought it had to do with personal responsibility and standing up for what’s right. That clearly is no longer the case.”
Dave
“I’d like to thank Senator Toomey, the nation thanks him, and I believe history will thank him in the long run.”
Jason
“I just want to thank Senator Senator Cassidy for his principled vote to convict a former president.”
LeRoy
“I’m very pleased that Senator Romney chose to follow his conscience, and I only hope that as time goes on we can elect more officials just like him so that we can preserve and protect this fragile democracy.”
John
“I’d like to offer my thanks to my Senator, Pat Toomey.”
“His vote to impeach Donald Trump was courageous, and I’m deeply disappointed that more Republicans didn’t follow his lead.”
Jan
“[Trump] incited those supporters to march on the Capitol.”
Pat
“My dad, my son, and I served in 5 different wars, beginning in WWII. We risked our lives to uphold our oaths. Members of the Senate took the same oath. You must do the right thing and put country above your own parochial concerns – vote to convict Trump.”
Roger
“I want to encourage the senators to truly live up to their responsibility and listen to the facts.”
Lewis
“He has been impeached and the Senate must convict him to protect the Constitution.”
Joanne
“President Trump must be convicted by the Senate.”
Janice
“I ask you to think about your grandchildren, my grandchildren, and what they will read in the history books, because your vote will be recorded; And I am certain that you want to stand on the right side of history.”
Becky
“If you’re a United States Senator and you’re a Republican, you have a duty to stand up against this kind of behavior, or we’re going to see more of it in the future.”
Gary
“It would be an absolute disgrace if the Republican members of the United States Senate fail to convict Donald Trump of seditiously inciting a mob to attack the nation’s Capitol. It’s time for Republicans to stand up and be men and women.”
Thomas
“I’m a voter in NC, I’m conservative but no longer consider myself a Republican. Trump must be held accountable for his actions that sought to destroy our democracy ever since the electoral votes were finally cast in early December. He must be held accountable.”
Brian
“I believe it is clear…that Trump’s guilty of incitement of insurrection. We need to send a message that this is not to be tolerated in our republic. The best way to do that is to nip this in the bud and convict Trump.”
Brenda
“We all saw what happened to the Capital of the United States of America. It was a nightmare – it is still a nightmare. It is incomprehensible. It must never happen again.”
Linda
“I think [Trump] should be removed from office for inciting the riots that happened”
Jim
“I’m urging you all to contact your state and local representatives, and urge them to come out and say that Joe Biden was the fair winner of this election.”
Jacob
“I’m a believer in Lord Jesus Christ, I’m pro-American, and a Republican. The events which happened on Capitol Hill make me angry as well as saddened. I pray and hope our Vice President will take the correct (actions) to save the nation, as well as to save the party.”
Jose
“I’m a conservative, always have been for all my 63 years, and I am now an ex-Republican. Actually, I was a Republican until three weeks ago…Trump needs to be removed now…he needs to be removed before he does any more damage to this country.”
Pete
Lara
“Republicans need to face the consequences. There can’t be any unity if we just pretend that this never happened.”
James
“He has attacked our democracy and he needs to be held accountable … This man is not even going to show up to the inauguration. That is unheard of. What kind of person does that?”
Jeffrey
“Trump’s words have ignited the worst parts of this country … What happened down in Washington last week just makes me ill.”
Nancy
“I ask the leaders of the United States Senate to come back to Washington. We’re in a crisis. Impeach Donald Trump.”
Brandon
“We must never allow this to happen again and we must hold all who assisted accountable …But most of all, we must hold Trump accountable. And that starts now.”
Keith
“I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. That is the same oath that the members of Congress take, the oath which most in the Republican party violated.”
James
“What happened was criminal activity, it was not political speech. Criminal activity, in any context, should never be acceptable in the United States. Riots in the United States should never be acceptable.”
Joel
“I think Congress must impeach and remove Trump for multiple reasons.
Trump, personally, must be held responsible for the death and destruction at the Capitol.”
Paula
“Donald Trump has not taken responsibility for any of the crazy that has happened during his tenure. He needs to take responsibility for it now, and he needs to go.”
Tom
“I just saw a statement from the president in Texas … He said nothing about the cops killed. He said nothing about the anger that people still feel.”
Sarah
“I hope if they have any integrity left, the Republicans and Trump’s administration will come together and use our constitutional protections to remove him.”
Dan
“We, as Americans, cannot stand by and let our Constitution be attacked. Let our democracy be attacked. Let our Capitol be occupied. This cannot be allowed.”
Eric
“The man is not fit to serve and we all know it … Do the right thing. The country is watching and history will remember.”
Jim
“I urge members of Congress to please get rid of Donald Trump immediately. Restore our democracy.”
Rob
“I strongly urge the cabinet to invoke the procedures of the 25th amendment to remove the president or failing that the Congress to immediately impeach, convict and remove the president from office.”
Helen
“I really feel that it’s too dangerous to keep Trump in office …They need to either use the 25th amendment or they need to impeach him. My gosh, what more does it take?”
David
“I’ve been a lifelong Republican and even held office as a Republican…We have to do everything we can to curtail, cap, and contain Trump.”
Mike
“I am convinced that the President does not understand, one bit, the concept of service. Nor does he intend to ever do what is right for our country.”
Julie
“I speak from my Evangelical heart to Vice-President Pence and the Cabinet. Not one more day. Not one more hour of this plague in our Oval Office.”
Tim
“Trump incited this. Trump should not get away with this. Trump should be removed from office.”
Cheves
“Trump was enabled by people who knew better, who knew how dangerous he was. Senators like Cruz and Hawley do not deserve to hold a single office in the United States ever again.”
“We need to cleanse ourselves of the Trump presidency by impeachment.”
Jim
“To the cabinet, to the Vice-President, as a Republican I’m asking: do the right thing…enact the 25th Amendment.”
Dave
“Every day Donald Trump stays in control of the government, puts our nation at risk.”
Clara
“I’ve been so angry over the past four years at GOP leadership and right-wing media who have been lying to my family to support Trump. My sisters refuse to believe even provable facts now…and I am beyond angry that this lying has led to an attack on our Capitol.”
Geoff
“It’s time for my fellow Republicans to stand up & say, ‘no more.’ I don’t care that there’s only 14 days left of this. Every passing second there is an opportunity for this man to destroy the nation further. He needs to be stopped, and he needs to be stopped now.”
Olivia Troye
“We have been in meetings where we’re supposed to be talking about the virus…and Trump wanted to talk for 45 minutes on how upset he was with some news anchor.”
General Michael Hayden
“I absolutely disagree with some of Biden’s policies, but that’s not important. What’s important is the United States, and I’m supporting Joe Biden. Biden is a good man. Donald Trump is not.”
Elizabeth Neumann
“I served in the Trump administration at the Department of Homeland Security… I’m sorry, Mr. President, you were hired to handle America’s worst day and you’ve absolutely failed. I do not think that we can afford four more years of Trump.”
Ted
“I wanted immigration reform, and I got children in cages and a Muslim ban.”
Will
“I can’t vote for [Trump] in November. …It’s antithetical to the principles of a free society.”
Jim Kolbe
I know Joe Biden to be a person that is willing to talk to others, to work across the aisle, and to try to solve problems – I know this from my own work with him.
Dorothy
“He has proven himself to be a racist, a bigot, a bully, and someone who doesn’t care about all Americans.”
Miles Taylor
“What we saw week in and week out – and for me, after two and-a-half years in that administration, was terrifying.”
Will
“[Russia is] paying Afghan militants to kill our soldiers. To kill my soldiers.To kill my friends. Donald Trump is the opposite of the best president for the military.”
Brewster
“We got civil unrest in this country and guess what? You’re president. It’s not Joe Biden’s problem. He didn’t create it. You created it.”
Kelly
“A vote for anyone other than Biden is a vote for Trump … Please, for the love of all Americans, do the right thing.”
Lori
“He is very slowly chipping away at our democracy one little piece at a time.”
Matthew
“Lord help the Christians who are saying he’s a godsend.”
John
“I am asking you, our active duty brothers and sisters and our veterans and families of veterans, to stand with our active duty brothers and sisters and vote against this current president.”
John
“And I just had to come to face to face with the conclusion that my loyalty first and foremost is to my country and not to my party.”
Colby
“And whether you like the left or not, the fact is if Donald Trump is reelected again, we will not be united for the next four years.”
Glen
“His hatred and jealousy of Barack Obama runs so deep that he won’t do anything or utilize anything that would be anything to do with Barack Obama. So he lied about the pandemic and put people’s lives in danger.”
Robbie
“I plan to hold President Biden’s feet to the fire.”
Dominic
“I cannot allow this man to tear down the reputation our party has built. Our zeitgeist was freedom, but now the party is controlled by those who don’t agree that everyone has freedom.”
John
“I’ll never vote for that party again unless it returns to the middle.”
Keith
“As a physician, I was at first dumbfounded by Trump’s dismissal of the coronavirus pandemic and then enraged by his refusal to accept any responsibility for his role in managing or mismanaging the crisis.”
Raymond
“Yes, I am still a Republican, but supporting Donald Trump, never!”
Ryan
“So made sense, give him a shot. Then you start seeing everything that kind of, you know, happens in the course of three years.”
Gabriella
“Trump has a complete victim mentality, and I’ve never seen a grown man whine as much as he does.”
Dave
“Trump would have been reelected if he had handled [COVID] correctly, but instead he downplayed it. He lied to the country and his supporters believed him and it’s led to more deaths.”
Becky
“I’m not voting for policy. I’m not voting for who I like the best. I’m not even voting for probably what would be good for me personally… And the reason is simply that I just fear for my country. And I’m afraid that under [Trump], we will be irrevocably damaged.”
Will
“I’m supporting Joe Biden because I’m raising my son to believe that his word matters.”
Bob
“We must get the vote out and we must vote him out.”
Tom
“I voted for Donald Trump. Now in the year 2020 I’ll be voting for Biden and Harris. And the main reason why I’m doing that is for Trump’s inability to handle the Coronavirus.”
Bridgette
“He is not a leader. He doesn’t have the qualities of a leader. He does nothing but divide and, and try to take the most divisive members of the Democratic Party and put them up as representatives for all the Democrats, which is very unfair.”
Brian
“Why did Trump have to subsidize our country’s farmers if his trade war with China was such a great win for the U.S.?”
Joshua
“I supported Trump in 2016…but then I noticed he lies about the pandemic, the criminal justice system.”
Ginger
“I joined the Republican party in the early 1950s because of the commitment to free enterprise and fiscal responsibility. In 2020, I left the party.”
John
“I became a Democrat after the first two years of Trump’s presidency, that thus ruined America’s role in the world.”
Richard
“I really went on the basis of this false sense of him being a prominent businessman and thinking that the United States of a giant business. How could we not go wrong?”
Erling
“I believe in fiscal responsibility, family values, and the ability for someone to work for their success and enjoy the fruits of their labor. I am offended by the Trump administration at almost every turn.”
Brenda
“He has made everything a hundred, if not, a thousand times worse.What he has done to this country, to the United States’ reputation abroad is, it’s simply unbelievable and it’s heartbreaking.”
Jon
“I firmly believe that there will come a day when those who’ve enabled and supported Donald Trump will pretend that they never did.”
Rachel
“I made a very brash foul. Now God warns us against making brash fouls because we’re going to have to follow through.”
Mark
“Biden is not perfect, but he has the temperament to build a high performing team, rebuild trust in international alliances, set a positive tone, and restore ethics in government.”
Garrett
“[Jackie] Robinson was a proud Rockefeller Republican up until 1968 when he thought that Richard Nixon was running a campaign of fear and race baiting cloaked in the rhetoric of law and order.”
Dave
“A vote for Joe is a vote to reject hate, to reject division, to reject narcissism, to reject ignorance.”
Peyton
“This isn’t about ideology or Trump being a little mean sometimes, no. This is about a president who is completely unhinged and who will cause irreparable damage to the country if he has another four years.”
Debra
“Donald Trump denigrates everyone at will. Military POW’s, women, children, disabled, leaders of allied nations – so many others.”
Jean
“The biggest thing that bothers me is that he is a liar. The President of the United States is liar, and I can’t stomach that.”
Ken
“I’m not going to be held by my political party this time, no, I’m going to be voting for Joe Biden. We need to cut across partisan lines.”
Kevin
“Think about your vote and why you originally registered to vote Republican and whether you still want to keep doing that or not.”
Dolores
“Consider the families, the husbands, the wives, the children, community members, church members that are no longer with us.”
Ben
“This guy has spent more time on his Corona hair-do, I think, than he does on the Coronavirus.”
Matt
“I don’t think that the price of selling out our character, of becoming hypocrites to defend the indefensible, is right.”
William
“I would ask all people that are considering voting for him to consider what kind of damage he can do over the next four years.”
Lance
“Even though I disagree with Joe Biden on various policy points, I will vote for him for president and I ask you to do the same.”
Justin
“I believe that character matters.”
Shannon
“Every single person who made the decision not to act during COVID will pay with their career the way that others have paid with their lives.”
Stuart
“After I’ve seen four years of Trump that I realized that I have to do everything I can to get this guy out of there.”
Dimitrios
“The response to the pandemic has been so horrible that I cannot think of a good conscience vote for Trump.”
Scott
“Donald Trump needs to go and we need someone of honor in the office. Joe Biden is that man.”
Rod
“I’ve never heard anyone else use the word ‘unfair’ as much as Trump. He’ll do anything to avoid responsibility.”
Laura
“Donald Trump has used the unborn as human shields for all of his inhuman, anti-family, anti-life policies.”
Rebekah
“I was convinced that the pro-life issue alone would be enough to ensure that I would remain a Republican for my entire life, but if we’re to be consistent, we need to admit that the current Republican party is not pro-life.”
Mario
“I immigrated to the United States from a place with a history of dictatorships and oppressors. Citizens were persecuted. There was no freedom of speech. I know a dictator when I see one. I know how tyrants act and behave. To me, Donald Trump represents dictatorship.”
Richard
“I oppose having a person who is so unfit, who is so uninterested in doing the job of president, continue to serve for another four years as president.”
Richard
“I’ve written entire essays about what a terrible politician Joe Biden is. But nonetheless, Donald is that bad.”
Shane
“I hope you will take a look at what he has done to the Republican party and consider if you would want to have another four years of someone not defending the best interests of our country.”
Brian
“Consider all of the bad acts, all of the stupid things he said, all of the dumb things he’s done while he’s been president … No. I voted for Joe Biden.”
John
I lived through the Vietnam War era. “That was a crisis of faith. Now it’s much worse.”
Gerry
“Dear God, please vote for Joe Biden.”
Bill
“I am a semi-retired lifelong Republican, and I will vote for Biden and Harris, Tracy Mitrano and New York’s 23rd, and every down ticket Democrat. I believe there are tens of millions like me.”
Tim
“I’m supporting Biden for president, in spite of his running mate and in spite of his policies. I’m doing so not only to save my country, but to save the GOP from Trump.”
Ralph
“He’s a fool. No president in my lifetime has acted the way this man has.”
Bill
“I don’t agree with Joe Biden on all of his views, but I share many of the same values he does.”
Noah
“And Donald Trump is not a good leader. He takes no responsibility. He takes no ownership. He does nothing.”
Jeff
“The bottom line is this: Trump knew and Trump lied and now we have to pay the price.”
Hui
“This great country has become a joke for the rest of the world. Joe will bring decency and the integrity back to the White House.”
Trent
“I’m a business owner and conservative by nature. My core values I thought were aligned with the Republican Party, but that’s not the Republican party that exists anymore.”
Frank
“Trust is the basis of how we get along as people and Donald Trump has destroyed that.”
Jan
“I’m really afraid. I can see this whole country just falling apart.”
Mark
“So the sooner you say, ‘Yeah, fine, I was conned – I was conned by one of the best’ then the better.”
Roger
“This is our one chance to get this right or we may never recover from the damage that’s already been done. Please join me in voting for Joe Biden, and let’s take our country back.”
Jim
“They call us suckers. Well, I decided I wasn’t going to be a sucker anymore. And that’s why I voted for Joe Biden.”
Jean-Marc
“I thought, who knows, maybe he’ll learn how to be president and maybe he’ll learn from his mistakes. But he never has.”
Beth
“When it was finally time for me to cast my vote, at the last minute, I always chose Republican. I did in 2016 too. And I’ve regretted that ever since.”
Molly
“My father used to say it was a circle, and the hard left and the hard right meet at one point of the circle. They each want to take away our freedoms, but for different reasons, and everyone else is in the moderate middle.”
Julie
“I’m an Evangelical Christian and not enough of us have spoken up about the cost of having supported Trump. …It’s time to correct our mistake and apologize to our country.”
James
“Do I agree with Biden on a hundred percent of issues? Heck no. But he’s a good, decent man. He has principles. He respects the rule of law.”
Mirella
I’m a Cuban-American immigrant that came to United States in 1968 with my family, fleeing the Castro regime to Tampa, Florida. When we left, we were labeled traitors of the revolution, which means everything was taken from us, and we literally came with the clothes on our back.
John
“I’m actually scared for the first time in my adult life that we’ve got some major problems in this country. And I don’t know what else to do other than to vote him out.”
Matt
“He’s let 200,000 people die. He supports racism. And he doesn’t care about the law.”
Greg
“All [Trump has] brought this country is massive division, racism, and attack against the other.”
Mark
“I’m very disturbed with what I see in the White House today. And this makes me feel quite bad because I always believed in the Republican party as being a party of principle.”
James
“President Eisenhower, just like Truman, owned his mistakes. We know that is not the current president.”
Trey
“I worshiped this man. There was nothing that this man could do, I thought, that would make me make a video like this, that would make me wake up and have to change my heart.”
Vernie
“I will be voting for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris because I believe that they believe in something bigger than themselves.”
Douglas
“Joe Biden is not my first choice for president, but Joe Biden is not Donald Trump.”
Matt
“I am still a believer in the same values that I have for 25 years. I still believe in free markets and limited government. I am still pro-life. I’m still pro second amendment. I am still very much a believer in American exceptionalism, but what scares me are the other things that have creeped into the Republican Party under Trump.”
Charlie
“Once upon a time I voted for Trump, and not long after the inauguration I was kicking myself, although I really didn’t like Hillary one little bit. But when he started with all the lies, it really bothered me.”
Connor
“For many young conservatives, I think the tide has turned in favor of not this candidate. I think we’re in a position where we must vote for Joe Biden.”
John
“During Democratic administrations, the abortion rate decreases faster than it has during Republican administrations.”
Sarah
“And for me, it starts with the constitution. I don’t think he [Trump] has much of a regard for it.”
Jennifer
“He values loyalty over everything, and he values image over truth. And I could never vote, or understand a vote, for Donald Trump.”
Joe
“Biden will not just represent the Democrats and the independents that vote for him, I think he’ll make a real attempt to represent all Americans.”
Steve
“He is almost causing a civil war to start by saying that if he loses then it had to’ve been a rigged election. I don’t see how we can have this man as the President of United States, it just goes against everything that we stand for and what all of our allies stand for.”
Pedro
“After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and the comments Trump made – I defended him, I stuck up for him, but when he said 3,000 of my people died on the Island and it was the Democrats fault, I couldn’t take it no more.”
Bruce
“I spent 13 years in the Marine Corps reserves. I spent 32 years as a union millwright in the building trade of Ohio. I like people that are straight-talking, say what you do, do what you say. That’s who I thought I was voting for.”
Jeylon
“There was once a moment in time where I would have been a Trump voter, but as of this moment, as of after last night’s debate, the president has lost any hope of my vote.”
Hari
“This guy Trump, he has made a mockery out of the United States government.”
Eric
“We all know Donald Trump hasn’t earned our vote. …I hope you’ll join me in being a Republican Voter Against Trump too.”
Alan
“[Trump] doesn’t stare Putin down. He carries his water for him. He gets love letters from other dictators like Kim in North Korea.”
Harley
“We are a country that is founded by immigrants. We attain our strength through our diversity and Donald Trump represents the opposite of that.”
Doug
“Our country cannot stand another four years. It’s too risky. It’s an existential threat to our democracy, our liberties, our values, everything.”
Frank
“200,000 dead are not statistics. They’re not numbers … and Donald Trump has looked at them as just numbers.”
Sean
“I’m going to vote for Joe Biden at the top of the ticket and I’m going to vote for Republicans all along the bottom of the ticket.”
Eileen
“[Trump] created an enormous deficit to get his wealthy friends a huge tax break.”
Matthew
“In 2020, there are no Republicans. There are Americans, and this American is voting for Joe Biden and Democrats across the board this time around.”
Mark
“Stand up to the tyrant who’s tried to seize our government to make us look like a Russia or China.”
Elizabeth
“That movement that Candace Owens and Kanye West have made, Blexit, have done exactly what I dislike the Democrats do, which is pander to black people.”
Neil
“It just is not acceptable that a sitting president would stage militants and have them prepare to maintain his power. It’s what Saddam Hussein would do.”
Conor
“Something changed where we stopped trying to be a party of individual responsibility and economics and free market capitalism and liberty and justice and independence and the Constitution. And we fell over to identity politics and Donald Trump.”
Mary
“I’ll take my vote, my Republican vote, and I will vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. I hope my fellow Republicans will do the same.”
Jim
“When I look inside of me and try to understand who I am … I can only conclude that I am going to support Joe Biden.”
David
“Republicans do everything that they can to try to scare rural white voters.”
Hyla
“I believe strongly that Donald Trump is not the right president for this country for the next four years.”
Doug
“This is going to be the biggest vote in your lifetime, maybe in the history of our country. Vote for Biden and Harris.”
Greg
“I know for a fact he’s screwed so many contractors and he is a laughingstock of the world.”
Jared
“I will be voting gladly for Joe Biden. I won’t agree with him on much…but I believe him to be a decent man.”
Beau
“I voted for Trump in 2016. I’ve grown to be very ashamed of that vote over the last four years. This year, for the first time in my life, I’m going to be voting for a Democrat.”
Katie
“I need to be able to look at my kids in five years, in 10 years, in 15 years, and look them in the eye and tell them that I did something, that I didn’t stay silent…It’s up to all of us to do something and to stand up for what is right, and that means standing against Donald Trump and voting him out in November.”
Greg
“In the name of God, I tell you, you’ve got to wake up and smell the coffee. This man is a great danger to our nation.”
Gary
“On a personal note, and as a Christian, I can’t support someone who is the antithesis of Christian values.”
Dave
“I spent 20 years serving this country in the United States Marine Corps, eight of which I was a Marine Corps Drill Instructor… My assessment of Donald Trump is this: He has no leadership.”
Jen
“I was afraid [Trump] would revert to what he did know, which was running a reality TV show. And in fact, that is approximately what happened, with himself as the star.”
Nancy
“The only thing that frightens me is a snake. Unfortunately we know, or at least I know, Donald Trump is a snake. And he frightens me to death.”
Karen
“We don’t have to live like this. It didn’t have to be this way. We didn’t have to lose 200,000 people.”
Lisa
“I just felt a tug on my heart that he was a fraud. That he didn’t represent the Republican party and didn’t have our best interests at heart.”
Ricky
“He calls us veterans losers, suckers and a bunch of other things. He’s a draft-dodger, dammit!”
Peter
“Donald Trump lacks a basic understanding of separate and co-equal branches of government.”
John
“Trump has demonstrated a disregard of the democratic norms and traditional values that give us stable government that we Republicans expect from our leaders.”
Ryan
“I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 partially because I just thought Hillary was corrupt… Little did I know that he would be the most divisive president we’ve ever had in our history.”
Augie
“(Biden and Harris) are decent, good, honest people.”
Jeremy
“As an American living abroad, I have to say my number one reaction is caution to let anybody know I’m an American because Donald Trump has so severely damaged America’s credibility.”
John
“In the words of Ronald Reagan, this is a time for choosing. We’re not choosing to adopt Republican policies or Democratic policies anymore.
We are choosing whether we will continue to live under a government of just laws or to submit to a government of corrupt men.”
Sam
“This is not the Republican party that I had envisioned as the one of helping the elderly and small government.”
Frank
“I cannot go for anyone that has disrespect for military people. He showed disrespect for John McCain.”
Peter
“The only thing he knows how to do is divide and conquer and demean. And acquire wealth for himself and his family. So a person like that should never have gotten the job in the first place.”
Mary
“We are serial entrepreneurs and believe very much in government not running everything…but I can no longer call myself a Republican.”
Mike
“Please vote to bring back a united United States of America. Vote Biden.”
Matthew
“I lost two jobs because of Covid. Now I’ve seriously blamed Trump because he should have taken care of it.”
Rich
“Donald Trump cannot be trusted by any military personnel because they all know that he does not care about us.”
Tyler
“His … response to COVID has been lackluster at best and sort of mind-boggling overall.”
Gary
“I supported Trump in 2016 for the purpose of economic gain. But since the pandemic, Trump has ignored top economists and sidelined any experts who went against his wishes.”
Joel
“It’s very sad to me to see people who I love very dearly follow Trump as if he is God’s greatest creation.”
Shannon
“Definitely going to support Biden in this time. And it’s not just the, that he’s not a bad guy though, I don’t think he is. It’s just that Trump is, is overwhelmingly bad.”
Eugene
“I just want to tell the other believers out there that you’re not the only one”
Al
“On each of those occasions, somebody had to go in his place. Somebody who didn’t have Trump’s money, his influence, his wherewithal. And who couldn’t evade the draft.”
Daniel
“Being called a sucker and a loser as a soon to be veteran doesn’t sit well with me.”
Ed
“As a Republican, we need to vote for the other guy. We need to vote for Joe Biden this year in order to get past the damage that Donald Trump has done.”
Tom
“Trump is handling things so poorly. And especially with this pandemic, to simply not trust the experts around him. It’s not what we deserve.”
Don
“He is bad for the world. He’s bad for this government. And he’s absolutely corrupt and absolutely in the pocket of the Russians.”
John
“There’s millions of people like me, and we need to work together this year to make a better American.To make America what it can be and should be, vote this man out.”
Elke
“What I saw in the man was not something that I would want to uphold as an ideal, as a leader in our country.”
Noelle
“I was so disgusted and dismayed by the behavior and the actions of the person sitting in the people’s house that I left the Republican party.”
Lora
“For the first time, I’ll be voting Democrat, ever in my life, and I have a peace about it, and I have clarity.”
Joshua
“Whenever it comes to the 2020 election, there’s one clear choice whenever it comes to character, and that’s Joe Biden.”
Michelle
“[Trump] doesn’t understand our history so he doesn’t even understand our role in the world. Why our troops are stationed around the world, putting their lives on the line.”
Chip
“I wish everyone would see that the man is absolutely dangerous to our Republic. …I’m going to vote for Joe Biden this time.”
Justin
“Instead of talking about the reverence and the seriousness for which the CIA officers had lost their lives … he spoke about his inauguration.”
Doug
“I’m voting for Joe Biden because I know Donald Trump’s North Star will never be what is best for this country.”
Bill
“I will not vote for another Republican unless he or she is willing to disavow any allegiance with number 45.”
Ted
“Our President should be held to the highest standard, not the lowest.”
Lance
“There’s going to be a lot of spending and it’s going to be spending that my kids have to pay in taxes as well in the future. So we’re going to have to really think about that when it comes to reelecting him.”
Charles
“I did one of those rebellious write-in ballots…I am not going to make that ridiculous mistake again.”
Charlie
“If you voted for Trump, I get it. It’s fine. We all got schemed. We all got played. It’s chill because we can fix it now.”
Will
“So needless to say this administration is the most corrupt in the history of this nation. We must all come together to vote Donald J. Trump out of office on the 3rd of November, 2020.”
Fred
“In 2016, well-meaning people let single issue politics overcome their best judgement. Trump played on that weakness, and we got burned.”
Jan
“When you’re sitting at your kitchen table or standing in the voting booth, vote your conscience. We can all argue about policy another time.”
Kathy
“Every day, I look at the news and I read yet another thing that he is saying or doing to incite more violence, to incite more disagreements. There’s no peace making going on. What happened to that? That’s what Jesus taught us, blessed are the peacemakers.”
George
“I’ve never voted for a Democrat from dog catcher to president ever, until 2016.”
Jon
“Having served 28 years in law enforcement, I am angry at the way our current president is fueling the hate, fueling the mob mentality. Having voted Republican all my life, I would vote for a can of red tomatoes if there was two choices on the ballot.”
Mark
“Let’s vote Trump out in 2020, and win back the White House in 2024 with a truly conservative man or woman of substance, integrity, and decorum.”
Geoffrey
“(Trump wanted) to know whether or not an ambassador can help his golf course acquire the British Open. That’s influence that isn’t affecting the benefit of me, my family, our health, our environment, and that’s not Republican.”
Gordon
“We’ve had the Atlantic article come out. So we know what he really, really thinks about our soldiers. Our people in uniform. People who’ve made the ultimate sacrifice, been wounded, been captured.”
Valentino
“To not vote for Trump doesn’t mean you should suddenly abandon all your values He doesn’t stand for us.”
Bill
“In Donald Trump’s eyes, I may just be a loser, a sucker, human scum, but I will do everything I can to ensure that in November he becomes what he most fears and despises: a humiliated loser.”
Scott
“This year I’ll be voting for Joe Biden, a person I really don’t have too much in common with or agree with. However, he is at the core a decent person, and someone who’s not willing to use the presidency for his own gain.”
Emily
“Donald Trump will never know what it’s like to be like me. He will never know what it’s like to live like I live, or most of America lives.”
Max
“How did this New York City, silver spoon, reality TV, real estate grifter become the voice of the Republican party?
Kurt
“[Trump’s] a snake oil salesman, and he’s transparent about it.”
George
“My God, how is Donald Trump allowed to sully the greatest office in the land? I can’t fathom it.”
Evan
“Because I think that Joe Biden is more of a Republican than Donald Trump has ever been, and Joe Biden has never been a Republican.”
Ernest
“[Trump’s] certainly not a Republican. He cares very little for the military, in fact I kind of think he hates us.”
JJ
“You don’t talk to women like that. I won’t let my sons grow up to treat women like that. That’s the example we’re showing?”
Arthur
“I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and embarrassed about it. What I had hoped to see was draining of the swamp. However, I saw the exact opposite.”
Brian
“I consider myself a conservative, no longer a Republican.”
Jim
“I’m disappointed at the Republicans under Trump, their disregard for the rule of law.”
Sarah
“You can’t expect people of color to sympathize with your cause and listen to you when you don’t value their lives outside of the womb.”
Michael
“The church has lost its voice, and it’s because of so many evangelicals supporting [Trump] unashamedly.”
Bill
“Trump’s blatant dishonesty, his blatant racism, his obvious acts of treason, his authoritarian nature, not to mention his failure to deal effectively with the coronavirus.
The man is out and out feral, okay?”
Patesh
“Joe Biden generally reflects my views on criminal justice and he generally. He is a good guy. He is a kind well hearted, good-hearted human being. He’s no Hillary Clinton.”
Ted
“I never envisioned American democracy would be in danger, but it is. And I hope everyone else can see it as obviously as I do.”
Gary
“Even though I’ll be voting against Trump in this next election, it’s important to repeat I’m still a Republican and always will be.”
Melanie
“I was very mesmerized by the Republican party actually. Their core values are more like my own and I was excited… And then they elected Donald Trump.”
Alison
“It’s too dangerous to be a single issue voter today.”
Jeff
“Joe has a history of working with Republicans to find solutions to the nation’s problems. Trump is not willing to work with anyone who disagrees with him. “
Chris
“I’ve been completely astonished by his daily attacks on our democracy, our rule of law, the institutions, and the norms that we, as a country, spent so many years creating and building.”
Randy
“I’m a pro-life, Christian, conservative, constitutionalist voter. I don’t think Donald Trump fits any of these.”
Brandon
“The man is categorically unfit to be president, and he’s especially ill-equipped to lead America in a post-pandemic world.”
Mark
“It’s unbelievable what he’s doing to save himself and to get reelected. It’s just all abut him, not about country.”
Becky
“Biden will look out for the America we’ve always known and loved. Whereas Trump will only ever look out for Trump.”
Mike
“I know that Kamala and Joe can do immense good and get this country working for the American people again.”
Connie
“[Trump] egged people on to shout ’12 more years!’ Our constitution has term limits. That’s crazy. That’s against democracy. That’s against our values.”
Tom
“Honestly I never thought I would use the President of the United States, being a Republican as a constant lesson to my children of what not to do.”
Dave
“I swore an oath to support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. And that is why on November 3rd, I’ll be voting for Joe Biden.”
Peyton
“So what changed my mind about voting for Trump again? Well, the coronavirus, the protests, and the acts he’s done since they started.”
Michael
“Get your party back, be able to reclaim the soul of America.”
Beth
“[Joe Biden] has empathy, and he will unite this country.”
Ray
“All [Trump] showed was racism, bigotry, misogyny, you name it. And I found that distasteful. And frankly disgusting.”
Soni
“We must stop him from completely destroying our democracy, completely just destroying our constitution.”
Roger
“The Republican party could be the party of Lincoln, or it could be the party of Donald Trump, but it can’t be both of those things.”
Chuck
“Please vote as if America’s future’s democracy depends on it. It does.”
Maryann
“I feel like he is not responsible for certainly the virus, but he is more than responsible for not coming to the aid of the American people.”
Rudy
“I’ve been so disappointed in the Republican leaders, some I know personally, who just won’t stand up to this man. He has to go. He has to go and I’m going to stay.”
Robert
“This year, I’m doing something I never imagined I would ever do – I’m voting for a Democrat.”
Kevin
“I have watched a man that is divisive. That is destructive of our constitutional values, and is clearly only in it for himself.”
Mike
“It seems like every Trump decision is made for Trump and not for the country. His leadership is dividing us, not uniting us.”
Dianne
“Trump cares about his image more than he cares about saving lives.”
Roger
“The past four years hardened my views that Donald Trump is completely incapable of leading this country.”
Toni
“Remove this horrible man. Remove these horrible Republicans. …They show no integrity, no courage, no principles, just power and money to the donor class.”
Marlene
“In 2016, I voted for President Trump. However, today in 2020, my views changed. I’m still a Republican, but I do not agree with Trump.”
West
“I’m not sure the Democratic party platforms are the best way… But I do believe that the Democrats presently are the adults in the room.”
Mike
“[Biden] grew up in… it’s kind of like the house we grew up in… in a close neighborhood where everyone knew each other.”
Newell
“I really have a problem with what Trump stands for.”
Royce
“He is pushing the black vote away from the Republican party. He is bringing in the racist vote to the Republican party”
Tyler
“Republican politics is something I love, it’s in my blood, and it’s what I built a career out of… when Donald Trump won the nomination of the presidency, I was shocked.”
Neal
“Until the Republican party becomes something, you know, respectable again, I’m going to be a registered Democrat.”
William
“I think the thing that really made me dislike Trump the most is the fact that he lies to his supporters so consistently, gaslighting millions of people who voted for him passionately.”
Christopher
“Watching our government pretty much put bipartisan politics in the back burner is really becoming a issue countrywide and it’s really polarizing this country and it’s, it’s making people turn against each other.”
Kyle
“How did the most powerful and most resourceful country in the world become the epicenter for the COVID-19 outbreak? The answer in my mind is MAGA mentality.”
Olaf
“I really don’t understand how anyone who’s ever been in the military, whether it’s three months or 30 years can support Donald Trump”
Eric
“I have loved Trump getting the conservative judges, protecting Israel from annihilation…But the guy is horribly arrogant. He lies constantly.”
Matt
“If you’re a Republican and you’re struggling with voting for a Democrat consider the fact that Trump is not really a real Republican. He never was.”
Pam
“Pro-life has been my litmus test. I voted third party in 2016, but this time the stakes are much too high.”
Dennis
“Although I disagree with the platform of the Democrats, I’m going to have to vote for them this year and it’s too bad.”
Cheryl
“Our Senate majority leader, our Senate Intel committees and the entire impeachment process. They did nothing to stop this monster. I will never vote Republican again.”
Greg
“I am embarrassed to say out loud that I’m a Republican now because of Donald Trump.”
Sean
“Right now, the evangelical community is supporting a man who lies regularly. Who’s a bigot. Who has normalized hatred.”
Tom
“I’m doing everything I can to help Joe Biden and the Democratic ticket in Arizona, including getting McSally out of office.”
Randi
“Please vote Democrat at least this time. And maybe we can get a Republican president worth voting for in the future.”
Chris
“And by him putting orange cream on his face, he’s the devil himself. Please, out with the crummy dummy in 2020.”
Lewis
“I have voted for Republican candidates in every election, except occasionally when I thought the Republicans were too liberal…I believe that Donald Trump is the most incompetent, corrupt, dishonest person ever to sit in the White House.”
Chuck
“There should be some type of understanding and mourning for the loss of the people under you. It’s your watch dude. It’s your watch and you blew it.”
Michael
“I have no intention of voting for anyone named Trump or Kushner ever.”
Dan
“In 2020, it needs to be such a landslide. It needs to be such a big gut punch to Donald Trump and those Washington Republicans who have sold their soul to Donald Trump for the last four years.”
Janis
“I hope that someday the Republican party will regain its moral compass.”
Evan
“The thing that really annoys me about Donald Trump is that he’s messing with Tik Tok. Don’t mess with Tik Tok.”
Steve
“How did the Republicans in Congress totally abandon their morals and embrace this buffoon?”
Gary
“I’ve contributed to Biden’s campaign. I’ve never contributed to any political campaign in my life.”
Jack
“I will vote for Joe Biden in November, and I will crawl over broken glass to do it.”
Michael
“He took five deferments not to go to Vietnam, he is unworthy to be classified as a patriot.”
Nancy
“If you are a Republican and you find it implausible to vote for a Democrat, I will just tell you it’s not that hard. I’m asking you to consider, please vote Biden 2020.”
Mark
“There is no place for a centrist in this new Republican party, especially a Brown immigrant one.”
Cindy
“I suppose I will vote for Mr. Biden in the 2020 election not because I agree with everything he stands for, but he does appear to me to be a really decent man.”
Steve
“It’s hard to even know where to begin, but most of all, I’m sick and tired of Trump’s lies. When most people lie, they at least try to hide it.”
Jeff
“I have never voted for a presidential candidate based on his or her religion, but I will vote against Donald Trump for the contempt that he shows for mine.”
Anne
“I have run for local office as a Republican…the Republican party has left me.”
Margaret
“I’m going to vote and I’m going to vote in a way that even surprises me. And I’m proud of that.”
Kenneth
“I think I was right that Donald Trump could not be trusted with those basic responsibilities of a U.S. President.”
Eduardo
“Right now being liberal, conservative, or Democrat or Republican isn’t that important.
What matters right now is that we are all American, desperate for leadership to survive together as a nation.”
Dan
“I will not be supporting Private Bone Spurs.”
Stan
“At some point policy is outweighed by human decency, and [Trump] has none.”
Mike
“He throws other people in the ditch as quick as he can. He has never demonstrated a shred of a physical or intellectual courage.”
Kevin
“Even if Hillary won and the nuns had lost their [Supreme Court] case, was everything that has been the disastrous Trump administration worth it?”
Jim
“If our democracy is to be preserved, Trump’s simply must go. Get out and vote. Even if it’s for the dog catcher, he’s gotta be better than Donald Trump.”
Ridge
“I’ve watched nothing but chaos happen during Trump’s presidency. In the middle of that chaos, your job as a president is to unite people. He’s not tried to do that whatsoever.”
Mike
“For the last four years I’ve continued to watch in horror as Donald Trump treats the oval office like his latest reality TV show.”
Gerald
“I thought George Bush wasn’t conservative enough…this year I voted in the Democratic primary.”
Todd
“Trump’s daily tweet storms and fragile ego show he is dangerously incompetent.”
Charles
“I am pleading with my Republican representatives to do the right thing and get the post office funded.”
Ed
“Why does he give deference to Putin? Why does he admire and show loyalty to Putin?”
Jon
“Donald Trump, it seems as though he doesn’t even understand the basic concepts of a free market.”
Robert
“President Trump has also taken an oath similar, to defend the United States against enemies foreign and domestic. He has not followed that oath.”
Dave
“I’m going to apologize to whoever my vote in 2016 hurt and quite frankly killed.”
Caden
“He’s that kid that picks on you and just tries to get a reaction out of you. We all know that person in class.”
Philip
“I was a precinct committeeman but I just can’t call myself Republican anymore.”
Mike
“I think that it will take years to repair the damage that [Trump’s] done. So in 2020, simple choice for me. Absolutely Joe Biden.”
Kelly
“We used to be admired, and I want that feeling back. I want the truth back of what it means to be an American.”
Sheila
“What I have is that people are dying, and they’re dying needlessly. And because of that, I just can’t vote for Trump.”
Adam
“The Republican party used to stand for something. For the right. And it just no longer does. And I just can’t support that.”
Blake
“The Republican party that supports Trump is just not my Republican party.”
Harvey
“I’m hoping that with a total defeat the Republican party can again regain its real value base and become the GOP, the Grand Old Party, that it was.”
Catherine
“I’m no longer going to have my vote held hostage to an empty promise.”
Mike
“I’m looking forward to 2024…hopefully we will have a platform we can live with as conservative Republicans.”
Joseph
“If this is what being a Christian is, how can you support this? …I am no longer going to vote for him, for sure.”
Peggy
“The United States cannot survive four more years of Donald Trump. We deserve better. And that’s why, in 2020, I’m voting for Joe Biden.”
Evan
“The peak of incompetence came during the coronavirus…he really had no idea what’s going on.”
Norm
“I plead with you to please vote for Joe Biden because we just can’t have anymore time with Trump.”
Rhoie
“I know right from wrong and what Trump is doing to our country is so wrong.”
Lee
“I wish to speak from experience regarding Trump’s adverse impact on the major revamp of income tax law.”
Lisa
“For the first time in four years, I will not be embarrassed by our president, or cringe every time he opens his mouth to speak.”
Flint
“I should have been a natural Trump voter in 2016. There were two things that held me back: character and authenticity.”
Mark
“I was a very avid Fox News viewer…when he posed with the Bible and gassed those protestors…that was a turning point”
Matthew
“I left the party because it’s no longer the party Lincoln founded it on.”
Greg
“I’m voting for Joe Biden in 2020 because I want to live in a country where those ideals represent what this country really means.”
Don
“[Trump’s] incompetence and negligence have caused over 31,000 Bengazis in the last six months, and dozens more happening every day.”
Paul
“Donald Trump has made it unacceptable to be a Republican at this time. So please vote for Biden and Harris.”
Adam
“And if you think he’s been bad in the first four years, wait until he doesn’t have to even worry about running for reelection.”
Martin
“[Trump’s] utter disregard for the constitution and those who support him led me to question what it was I was serving for 30 years.”
Mark
“I am speaking up! I cannot support this man for President in 2020. I have no choice but to vote for Joe Biden.”
George
“He exhibits no Christian principles, isn’t conservative, isn’t decent…and I saw the Republican party go crazy for him.”
Lisa
Lisa has a lot to get off her chest. Almost fifteen minutes worth. See if you can watch all of it.
Jason
When Justin Amash refused to run for President, “I took that as a sign from above…that defeating Trump is more important to the future of our republic.”
Gretel
“What team is going to care about more people than themselves? We need their spirit. We need their leadership.”
Gretchen
“The radical side of the Republicans bothers me just as much as the radical side of the left.”
David
“It’s like going into an auto-shop…imagine an auto-shop run by actors and businessmen.”
Rich
“They say character is destiny… around the country all I see are the consequences of his character.”
Nathan
“Trump is the greatest danger to democracy in the world right now.”
Chris
“He creates a political undertone in all that’s going on…an example is making masks a personal choice instead of about the health and safety of others.”
Jim
“I think Joe Biden is a good candidate, but more importantly, I really think that our democracy, our country, requires that we not have Trump in office for a second term.”
Jim
“I think that Trump has been out to help himself and the top 0.1%. I know my taxes have gone up, and many others have too.”
Mike
” I do wish Mr. Trump continued good health so that he can stand trial and serve time after conviction in 2022 or 2023.”
David
“I can’t believe these people in our party are just standing back and taking it and accepting what’s going on. I mean, It’s ridiculous. Come on. We’re the USA man!”
Jose
“I had an interview with Shark Tank and thanks to COVID I had to postpone it.”
Kent
“There’s a coronavirus raging and our president has allowed a whole bunch of people to die unnecessarily.”
Matt
“There is no one who poses a greater threat to American democracy than Donald Trump.”
Rob
“I’ve been called a RINO, snowflake, libtard… I don’t care!”
John
“I am proudly going to cast my vote for the very first time for a Democratic candidate.”
Brandon
“And so I am 100% behind Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. … They’re a strong team.”
Robert
“You know, I’ve been registered as a Republican my whole life, but I would never admit to that now. I mean it’s like shameful to say you’re Republican.”
Robert
“He’s not one of us. He’s for himself.”
Steven
“Even before COVID-19, [Trump] approved record deficit spending. My grandchildren are going to have to pay for that.”
Leroy
“To me, America is a precious and a sacred place. As a lifelong Republican, I cannot support a president who is systematically dismantling [America]”
Dave
“The Republican party has left its principles – I have left the Republican party.”
Colin
“I’m not a Joe Biden fan, but I would much rather have him than four more years of Trump.”
Keith
“It’s time for America to stand back up for what it believes in and for what it stands for.”
Bill
“It hurts me deep in my soul when I see what happened in DC at Lafayette Square.”
Steve
“He’s a draft dodger. He never served in the military, he has no clue what it means to serve in the military.”
David
“This election is not about Democrat or Republican. It is about American survival or not.”
Tom
“I admit it: I voted for Trump in 2016. After three and a half years, I decided to start watching the COVID-19 press conferences. My son has diabetes, and it’s very important that we get good information and we just didn’t get information at all. We got lies.”
Dave
“The Republican party stands for so much more than what he leads with.”
Bill
“The party of Eisenhower, Reagan, and Lincoln has vanished from this Earth.”
Bob
“This is the first presidential election we stand with a Democrat”
Elijah
“I will be voting for Joe Biden in this election. He stands for things. Something our current president has never done.”
Jon
“Here’s a guy who brags about not getting dirt underneath his fingernails… so much for the working man or woman.”
Elaine
“I voted for Trump in 2016 as a Democrat, and then even went and changed my party to Republican. Big mistake, one I won’t make again.”
Jon
“The party is no longer the party of common sense and personal responsibility.”
Paul
“The reason I voted for Trump in 2016 was I thought the country needed a change in direction … In 2020, I’m definitely supporting Biden.”
Eddie
“So I hope that this’ll be enlightenment or encouragement to somebody. Just remember, if we stand for what’s right together, things will be done right.”
Stephen
“President Donald Trump can profoundly validate his love of God and country by immediately announcing his decision to not seek re-election in 2020.”
Skip
“I don’t like having to wake up every morning wondering what the hell my president said on Twitter.”
Coy
“The Republican Party Has Totally Abandoned Me”
Walter
“It’s time to cut ties with this and … just put an end to this hatred, this bigotry, this phony corrupted leader.”
George
“I’ve been a Republican this whole time that our party’s been hijacked…this pandemic could’ve proved to me that Trump could have been a leader. He messed that up too.”
Rob
“You know deep down in your Sunday School heart what type of man Trump is.”
Jerry
“You do not have a personal right to give me coronavirus.”
Thomas
The only way to fix our reputation abroad, “is if the voice of the people, you and me, reject Trump and everyone around him.”
Scott
“And now they’re saying let’s Make America Great Again, when it’s not great. Things are not great at all.”
Kris
“I honestly believe that Joe Biden is a decent man. I believe that he will fight for all Americans, even us women and people of color, not just the people who voted for him.”
David
“Are you gonna build your wall or are you gonna get our kids back in school?”
Jim
“I’m going to be voting for Joe Biden this year. … As a long-term Republican, I can’t possibly in good conscience support this type of president.”
Jeffrey
“I’m going to vote for Joe Biden … This country cannot take another four years of this administration.”
Dorian
“And I thought, well, maybe it’s not so bad. Maybe I can vote for him. He is a Republican. Then in the last year, I’ve really been slapped upside the head again and convicted that this man can not continue in office.”
Paul
“But I think we should all work together. Vote together as a family of America and do what America stands for. We need to get rid of Trump.”
Brian
“I feel like our country is at a turning point here… which is why I am voting in the 2020 election, on November 3rd, for Joe Biden.
Chris
“He was willing to tear gas and shoot rubber bullets at peaceful protesters so he could walk over to a church … it blows my mind.”
Noah
“I believe that Mr. Biden is a good man and the good man is something we need in politics right now.”
Matt
“There is a steep price to pay for choosing as your standard-bearer a divisive megalomaniac.”
Tyler
“And I just can’t fathom how he is the way he is and how people just ignore it.”
Greg
“I am not happy with the direction our party is going, and I will not support it. … Donald Trump’s values are not my values, [and] they are not Republican values.”
Nick
They are “the party of Trump,” and “no longer the party of good moral values.”
Paul
“I knew it was going to be bad…never in a million years did I think it would get this bad”
Stephen
Trump is “really a bad guy. And that’s the reason not to vote for him.”
Ed
“Donald Trump is a fascist. … If we don’t rise up and get rid of this man we’re going to find ourselves in a dictatorship.”
Med
“I truly wish there was a Republican party…that focused exclusively on free market economics”
Brandon
“All he’s doing is playing the culture war and I didn’t realize I was being played like I was.”
Michael
“He pitches himself as a businessman but he’s doing the worst possible job with the federal budget.”
Jason
“We need a president that believes in the American values and the American people.”
Ed
“Fiscally conservative and socially moderate, I find myself politically homeless.”
Denny
“He is trying to separate us in any way that he can, instead of bringing us together.”
Phil
“I’m in the minority to my Christian friends… I don’t understand…It’s like they do see it but they don’t see it.”
Jeff
“He has clearly engaged in crime and dishonesty everywhere he gets the chance and he’s totally incapable of empathy.”
Jeff
“He’s not capable of accepting responsibility for his actions, he never says I’m sorry, never apologizes, never even admits that he was incorrect about something. That’s not what we need in a leader.”
Louise
“If anybody out there feels like they’re alone, you’re not. …I hope that we can come together. We can vote for Joe Biden as a necessary thing to do.”
Tiana
“I am horrified at what he has done, what he continues to do… the list of things that he’s done, it seems to be the length of a treatise. I couldn’t even in one video – how could we encapsulate all of that?”
Rodney
Our Republican Party has completely abdicated their responsibilities toward conservative values
Chuck
“I worked for the first Watergate prosecutor…no one ever dared to come over and say ‘you have to be easy on Nixon and his people.’ That would be unthinkable!”
Kathleen
“He led off the vote. He had an opportunity to show character and he just didn’t.”
Mike
Ryan
“I’m ready to dream of a brighter future. And if that means electing [Biden]… then so be it.”
Bethany
“Let me be very clear that holding up a Bible is not the same thing as living the values that the Bible teaches or even reading what the values state.”
Danny
“I’m frightened by this blind allegiance for the first time being an American. One cannot let any one person define your identity.”
Dave
“He treats us as though we’re just willing to accept whatever comes out of his mouth and adopt that as our own beliefs.”
Wendy
“It’s about decency. It’s about all of America, not just a group in America.”
James
“We are very divided, angry, bitter, and partisan. If Joe Biden stands for anything, I know it’s for… bringing us together.”
E.R.
I cannot, will not, support a man with no morals, ethics, or values. A man who has done nothing but his best to divide this country.”
Dave
“If you owned a family business and you hired him, you would quickly come to realize…I need to fire this guy.”
Dan
“He has destroyed our party. If he is reelected, I will probably drop the party that I started with the first election 60 years ago with Barry Goldwater.”
Diana
“We need to return some decency, some rule of law, some respect for all the amendments to the White House. And it’s time to get this country back on the right path.”
Scott
“The man is just a disgusting individual and he needs to go. I will vote for Joe Biden and that’s it.”
Cindy
“At least Nixon had the dignity to resign.”
Bruce
“He has literally brought the white supremacist movement back.”
Michael Anne
“Now is the time for all of us to put principles first and say we are going to restore the rule of law in this country.”
Bill
“The Republican party has left me. They have pretty much failed me in every way, shape, and form.”
Vicki
“I don’t know what I am anymore. I’m conservative in my values, but I am not what the Republican party is nowadays”
Rev
“I don’t hear a lot of solutions being offered. I simply hear a lot of blame being registered.”
Bill
“My verdict is – You’re Fired!”
Naomi
“President Trump has torn apart everything I believe in. And right now there is nothing conservative about him.”
Beth
“I have had my patriotic heart broken… because I didn’t think this was possible in this country.”
Ed
“He is not my Republican party. He has captured something totally different than my Republican party that I’ve lived with all my life.”
Shirley
“It’s like the party I grew up and loved has turned into nothing more than a cult. In fact, I can’t, I don’t feel like calling it the Republican party. I call it the Trumplican party because that’s all it is!”
Bob
“The tacit approval by Donald Trump of white supremacy, fascism, and autocracy, it’s putting our country at risk.”
Roger
“I can’t bring myself to vote for a man who is doing precisely what the Chinese are doing in Hong Kong.”
Rhonda
“Look at the worry in my face. Oh my gosh I think I’ve aged 50 years in the past six months.”
Nicholas
“I thought Donald would run this country like a business. He would look out for working class Americans like myself, and he would do things differently than they had been done previously.”
Kay
“I became a never Trumper in 1989, when Donald Trump took out four full page ads in New York city newspapers asking for the death penalty.”
Jeffrey
“I don’t care what color your skin, what your nationality, people are people. And they deserve a measure of dignity and humility.”
Roderick
“We had an honor code: do not lie, cheat or steal or condone anyone who does. I honor my oath and I value that code, and for that reason, I cannot vote for Donald Trump.”
Mike
“Do not vote against your own interests. Vote for the country’s interests. Support Joe Biden.”
John
“I can live with a President Joe Biden in a way that I couldn’t at the time, live with Hillary Clinton as president.”
Jonathan
“I Saw the Horrors of Communism…Republicans Now Sell Fear Instead of Hope”
Ted
“I want to tell my fellow Republicans that the time has come for us to reclaim the ideals that have served us so well for so long.”
Buck
In hindsight, Buck says his “regret and embarrassment couldn’t be stronger.”
Nathan
“What makes our country great is the rule of law, not of one individual.”
David
“He’s not fit to be part of your company, but you’re willing to let him be leader of the free world?”
Mark
“I’m going to vote for Joe Biden because I do not want Donald Trump to be president for four more years.”
Ben
“We need to give him a resounding victory so that we can close the door on Trumpism forever.”
D.J.
“I did not sign up for trade wars. I did not sign up for the isolationism. I did not sign up for the nativism.”
Joey
“Do not let all those who have gone and died on battlefields for our democracy go in vain.”
Leasa
“I’m heartbroken that this is what our country has become.”
Ian
“There’s certainly no room for diversity. There’s no room for alternate perspectives. There’s no room for competence in Trumpism.”
Glenn
“The only thing that Trump is looking out for is himself. When he raised his hand and he swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution, he lied.”
Alejandro
“I don’t like Trump’s policies and I don’t like him as a human being. I think he is the worst of humanity. He lacks empathy, he lacks decency, he doesn’t respect fellow human beings. He’s just a terrible person.”
Zia
“And I am so disappointed with all his actions, dividing the country, and ruining our economy because of not handing the coronavirus properly.”
Richard
“I find myself now in 2020, very disgruntled and very worried about where our country is going. I worry about [my children and grandchildren.]”
Jamie
“And I’m disappointed that many of my friends and family will accept what’s happening for their own self benefit. But let’s be clear, we are compromised.
Our president is compromised.”
Ann
“He is dividing families. I will probably never speak to my sister or her family again. And that really makes me very sad.”
Ivan
“There were so many things that Donald Trump said and did that made it impossible for me to vote for him.”
Leslie
“We need to vote. We need to talk to our friends. We need to talk to everybody. We need to make sure that in January, Joe Biden is president.”
Jim
“Let’s hope that November 3rd brings a big change in the direction of our country.”
Casey
“I’m not worried about what his platform is, I just want some competence.”
David
“So I voted for Trump in 2016. I wasn’t proud of it then. And I’m definitely not proud of it now. He called actual Nazis ‘very fine people.’ And, as a proud Jew, that does not sit well with me.”
Vince
“I would’ve voted for anybody but Trump and now hopefully other people feel the same way in 2020. I think Joe Biden’s a good man.”
Carl
“Donald Trump must be removed with overwhelming action so we can make America great again.”
Christine
“There are two things that Trump calls himself: a Republican and a Christian. I am those two things, but we have absolutely nothing in common.”
Roger
“Yes I voted for that lunatic in 2016. I apologize, I had no idea what kind of person he really was.”
James
“I will proudly display my Eric Holcomb Republican for Governor of Indiana yard sign right next to my Joe Biden 2020 yard sign. I hope you will join me in doing the same.”
Dave
“Trump is not a respectful leader. He’s not an effective leader. I think Biden can bring that.”
Tonia
“He uses faith as a prop, and as a person of faith, I am deeply offended by this.”
Sue
“[I thought] the office was bigger than the man. Boy was I wrong.”
Paula
“I think the treatment of immigrant children under the Trump administration will be a stain on our country forever.”
Tom
“There’s nothing conservative about him. All he cares about is himself.”
Dakota
This year I am endorsing Joe Biden “100%,” and I hope my fellow conservatives will “have a heart… and help save our democracy.”
Chase
“The values of the Republican party that I grew up admiring changed in a nasty way in 2015 and 2016 with the rise of Donald Trump.”
Marq
“Donald Trump is a misogynist, a liar. He is turning our friends into our enemies, our enemies to our friends. We are an embarrassment.”
Ethan
Ethan is disappointed with Trump, and feels he doesn’t have a conservative candidate to vote for. He reasons, “if neither of them are conservatives, then the least I can do is vote for the one that isn’t corrupt and immoral. And that’s Joe Biden.”
Jay
“We don’t even have a clue as to the things that he’s done and the things that he would like to do. But I have a feeling that all come out as soon as we vote him out.”
David
“I just can’t believe that we have to have this type of person pretend to be our leader. He isn’t good for our nation. His policies are childlike.”
David
“What I like about Joe Biden, he is pretty much the opposite of Trump. He’s caring. He’s compassionate.”
Ken
“At this time, I consider myself a Reagan-McCain-Romney Republican, and a Never Trumper. I believe [Trump’s] a complete disaster, and that he has not earned a second term.”
Jill
“I think that Trump is the worst thing that has ever happened to this country. He is an embarrassment.”
Sarah
“And I’m sure hoping that Ohio can represent and we can show that we’re country above party and that we know what’s more important than just Donald Trump and the Republicans.”
Deon
“I’m a RINO? Wait a minute, I don’t cheat on my wife, I believe in family values, I believe in being fiscally responsible, I believe in personal accountability. Donald Trump, he’s none of those things. I give to charities, he steals from charities.”
Joan
“I pray to God every day, I’m on my knees before I go to bed and when I wake up in the morning that God, please remove Donald Trump from the White House.”
Danielle
“My family company was one of the many companies that helped build the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. Trump did not pay my family’s company $8 million.”
Lee
Message to Trump:
“I’m nobody.You don’t have to worry about losing my vote. But you should be very concerned with a million people behind me, because you are history.”
Jay
“I voted for Donald Trump in 2016, but I won’t vote for him again.”
Caryn
“I hate his lack of belief in science…he has politicized everything.”
Mark
“I will do all that is in my power to make sure Trump loses this election and that he loses severely.”
Roger
“This guy, Donald Trump, wants to destroy everything that stands in his way to power.”
Michael
“I believe that it is incumbent upon us as Americans to vote for Joe Biden to bring this country back to some sort of civility and normalcy.”
Joel
“When I think about the Republican party, I think about Reagan’s Shining City on a Hill speech. And honestly, I do not feel that we’re the Shining City on a Hill right now.
Peter
“For my job, I travel globally. Now I have to apologize for Trump and what America has become. Before this, I could hold my head high and say with pride that America’s the greatest country on earth.”
Gary
“With Donald Trump as president, we have totally lost this party.”
Marian
“His America First slogan is a lie. He believes in Trump first. He has no respect for our Constitution and no regard for the people of America he was sworn to protect.”
Peter
“I label myself as a conservative, and I have certain values and policy beliefs that I follow. Donald Trump is not aligned to those values, and he never has been.”
David
“There’s not a single thing that this man has done to better this nation.”
Ken
“If you don’t mind lying and insulting other people, if that’s doesn’t bother you very much, vote for Trump.”
Jenny
“I want to see my grandchildren grow up…I have value, whether Republicans believe it or not.”
Rick
“As a Christian, how can you support slander, gossip, lies? Almost every sin in the Bible, Donald Trump has broken and continues to break.”
Monica
“I did only vote for Donald Trump because I couldn’t believe someone who acted as goofy as he did on TV actually meant it.”
Kim
Well, we’ve suffered these past three and a half years, and we need to be able to end that suffering by voting Donald Trump out of office this coming November.
Gerald
“So, in 2020, I’m going to vote for Joe Biden. I think he can help bring us together.”
Marie
“I will support another party now because of Donald Trump. And I am ashamed to this day for voting for him.”
Scott
“I believe that if he’s elected again for a second term, it may do irreparable damage to the Republican party. Now is the time to stand up against Donald Trump.”
Albert
“There is not a choice. If you wish to defend the rule of law in this country, Trump has to go. If you wish to defend the constitution, Trump has to go.”
Connor
“I will admit that I voted for Donald Trump…But at this point, I’ll take anybody over him.”
Larry
“Trump has transformed the Republican party into a personality cult.”
Stephanie
“Donald Trump is not a Republican. Neither him, Lindsey Graham, or Mitch McConnell hold the Republican values that I grew up with and that I know.”
Jason
I would vote for anybody but president Trump on the way he’s handling the coronavirus epidemic. It’s a time to get some adulthood back in the White House.
Craig
“I’ve been a Republican, a voting Republican for 42 years, and voted for Donald Trump four years ago because I didn’t trust Hillary. That was a mistake”
Gail
“I feel like he has failed and divided this country worse than any other President.”
John
“Trump’s handling of the COVID-19 is a disgrace. It has caused more deaths than the Vietnam war.”
Helen
“Trump, my problem with him is that he lies, and not only does he lie, but . . . he gaslights, and I don’t like to be gaslighted. I know what I heard. I know it’s not fake news.”
Charles
“I certainly felt that Donald Trump was a better choice than Hillary Clinton…that has been a monumental mistake on my part, and in this coming election I would vote for anyone before I would vote for Trump.”
Eric
“One thing I have figured out for sure is that I’m not voting for Donald Trump. I think that is just a moral imperative.”
Ryan
“I’m going to be voting for Joe Biden. I think he is a respectful man who will bring honor back to the United States.”
Tommy
“The hardest thing to watch in the last four or five years with all of this has been the evangelical Christians sell out to this false prophet. He can’t quote a bible verse.”
Joni
“I voted for Donald Trump in 2016 with the hopes that he would truly make America great again. I, along with many others, have been disappointed. The man is incompetent and dangerous.”
Mark
“How we went from then to this illiterate narcissistic buffoon blows my mind.”
Jim
“I am a United States Marine Corps vet, and I am a gun-owning Republican, and I will not be voting for Trump in the 2020 election.”
Richard
“If you care anything about this country, about the future, which I do, I have grandchildren and I get concerned about them and my children… if you care anything about this country at all, you need to vote for Joe Biden in November.”
Justin
“I heard Donald Trump, a man who was a draft dodger, disrespecting John McCain, it came across to me, as a veteran, very disturbing.”
Alberto
“It’s embarrassing as an American. I have to turn [the TV] off because I cannot watch [Trump] anymore.”
Scott
“When I see President Trump and the words he had to say about John McCain’s service, it’s something I will never forget and can’t let go. …the way he’s denigrating their service is just despicable.”
David
“I’m tired of having to apologize for my country. I don’t even like Joe Biden that much, …but I will be voting for him.”
Michael
“Donald Trump believes in only one principle: his own self preservation.”
Leslie
“I was astounded at how undignified he is, how unpresidential. He does these long self-aggrandizing rants that go nowhere. The way he treats the press and other people.”
Eric
“Righteousness has to go first, character has to go first”
Shelley
“I cannot believe the amount of damage that he has caused in such a short period of time. He thinks he’s a king. He thinks his family is the royal family.”
Preston
“Mr. President, if you’d like to come to my classroom and sit in on a science lesson about evidence and about how we make informed decisions based on scientific inquiry, please stop by.”
Mark
“Joe Biden has got to be elected in this election. We cannot waste our votes on a third-party protest vote anymore”
Loretta
“I don’t understand how people think this man is Christian when none of his behavior lines up with any Christian belief that I’ve ever seen or heard of.”
Kevin
“…and when you put all that together, I think this is a man who must, must be removed by voters in November from governing our country. Otherwise I do not know what our country will become.”
Jeffrey
“All he does is watch the goddamn news. Why don’t you do your frickin job, Donald Trump?”
Paul
“When the Lord was on this earth, He didn’t insult people…He led with love and with kindness. The exact opposite of what Donald Trump is doing right now. He is a false prophet.”
Charles
Rep. Charles Djou has served his country in both the Army and the House of Representatives.
“Trump’s actions are indicative of a man simply ignorant of honor and true sacrifice.”
John
“It is a time for choosing, a time to put country over party, and a time to believe in America once more.”
William
“I also grew up with a malignant narcissist. Now we’re seeing what a man like that, a man who doesn’t care about other human beings…can wreak on the country and the world.”
Dave
“I think our standing in international politics has gone down the tubes.”
Mark
“You can’t undermine the intelligence institution and take the word of dictators over them in important matters.”
Lynn
“It didn’t have to be this way. President Trump’s response has been incompetent and pathetic.”
John
“I can’t support any Republican who doesn’t condemn Donald Trump. …He’s incompetent. His handling of the COVID crisis is a tragedy of untold consequences.”
Yves
“Ronald Reagan once asked: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?” I think we know the answer to that question.”
DG
“The Republican party cannot come back until Trump and his enablers are gone.”
Greg
“Can you imagine going to Mar-a-Lago to see the museum from the current president? I hope that they got an outdoor shower after you go in there because you’re going to need it.”
Wayne
“When I look now at Donald Trump, I don’t see Ronald Reagan, I see George Wallace, and that’s a direction that this country just cannot afford to go in. For that reason, I will be voting for Joe Biden in 2020.”
Bryn
“Growing up, I was never allowed to make fun of the president. We had to respect the office. …[Trump] doesn’t respect the office he holds, and so I can not respect him in it.”
Erin
“He knew that Russia was paying bounties on our troops being killed in Afghanistan. And he did nothing.”
Sahm
“It appeared obvious that [Trump] is not a good person, has no moral character whatsoever. …I’ll be supporting the most favorable candidate, and that’s Joe Biden.”
Robbie
“Deception, domination, divisiveness. These are the new normal under this Trump administration. We need a president with a vision.”
Karen
“If you believe in the Republican approach to government, that’s all the more reason to vote Trump out because he’s doing nothing but hurting and hurting and hurting, not just the country and the world, but also the future of this party.”
Tony
“Every male in my family has served this country… Donald Trump is not that leadership, he is not that person, he needs to go back to the golf course.”
Margaret
“I will be voting straight democratic ticket, because those people in office have enabled him. They have not kept him in check. He has run rampant.”
Kevin
“It’s time to move on from Donald Trump. We can not let him define the future of the Republican party.”
Murray
I served in Dick Thornburg’s cabinet when he was the Republican governor of Pennsylvania, and later in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush in Washington. I never saw these Republican leaders, nor their administrations, behave in the way that Trump or his people do.
Nigel
“Trump has got to go… and I dearly hope and pray that enough independent-minded GOP voters would agree. Hold your nose, vote Democrat, get rid of this vile vile piece of humanoid tissue.”
Jose
“He is supposed to uphold the Constitution of these United States and he is doing everything but. This man is not for this country. He may say he is, but actions speak louder than words.”
Neal
“Donald Trump does nothing to speak out about the fact that life is harder in America for black people.”
Steve
“He won’t protect Americans from Coronavirus, from racism or from Russia, so really it’s fitting for him to line himself up with pro-slavery traitors like those Confederates.”
Jim
“As a disabled American, seeing the the health rationing and disabled people being infected with COVID being DNR’ed involuntarily and left to die by starvation. I can’t vote for Trump again this year.”
Kim
“Trump is dividing this nation. I think he is racist… I’m not voting for the man.”
Niq
“In 2016 I voted for Donald Trump, not because I thought he would be a great leader, but I thought he was better than the alternative… well, four years later, I regret that decision.”
Greg
“He is not trustworthy. He is not loyal. He is not friendly. He is not kind.He is not obedient. He is not cheerful. He is not thrifty. He is not reverent… I can’t wait to be rid of Trump.”
Eugene
“How could I not be a Republican? Because it was Ronald Reagan who called out the country where I was born for what it truly was: an evil empire, a country that oppressed me and my fellow Jews. I am a Reagan Republican. I am a Bush Republican… what I’m not, is I’m not a Donald Trump Republican.”
Chris
“He’s not willing to do anything except skirt the issue by calling it a hoax…it feels like we’re more of a Puppet State of Russia than we are own country.”
Doug
“Mr. Trump has abandoned our veterans with his unconscionable failure to recognize the dangers of this pandemic, with the insulting of heroes like John McCain, with the insulting of Gold Star families. He is no friend of veterans and I will not vote for him. I hope that no veteran will.”
Felix
“As a veteran, it did hurt me that my fellow military colleagues on active duty have to support that commander-in-chief.”
Michael
“It’s shameful, and the way he talks about honorable veterans, like John McCain and gold star families, the way he’s allowing the greatest generation to die off like cattle and old folk songs in the VA hospitals, with his disregard of older life, except for himself. It’s just unbelievable.”
Rush
“I’m not joining the Democratic party. But until the Republican party starts demonstrating to me the values that I thought they believed, and those that they espoused, then I will not be voting for a Republican.”
Robert
Lincoln provided moral and personal leadership… and above all sought to heal differences among peoples. None of that exists today.”
Pat
“Christians have to resist being used to justify things that Jesus would never justify. This president is using us, and he’s playing on our tribal fears in order to stay in power.”
Linda
“Every time he would do something that I thought was good, it was followed by those horrible tweets… and policies that I absolutely abhorred.”
Bob
“In the last election… I felt as though a strong Republican CEO could lead our economy and our military. I thought I was making a logical decision and not an emotional one like I thought I saw others doing. I was wrong.”
Robert
“We need to not only beat Donald Trump, we need to bury Trump in an avalanche of votes.”
Randy
“I cannot continue to have to explain to my…children about what he says and does that is completely un-American and void of any moral compass.”
Doug
“It’s more important for the longterm health of our country to have a Democratic president with principles than a so-called Republican with none.”
Richard
“Our president told us that he would make this country first in the world…He made us first in deaths in the world. And he made us first in economic disaster…”
Becky
“Believing in the ideals of the Declaration of Independence is what makes you an American, not kowtowing to a narcissistic celebrity with a despotic soul.”
Leslie
“I cannot check that ballot box this year to support him based on who he is, based on the things he says, and constantly does.”
Murray
“I may not agree with Joe Biden on issues of policy or ideology, but I believe that Joe Biden is an honest, honest, compassionate man, and that he will be the best choice that we have for president in 2020.”
Bill
“I will continue to be a Republican, however I feel that the Republican party has lost its vision. It’s lost its conscience, and I believe they may risk losing the Senate in the upcoming election.”
Susan
“I call myself a Republican in the traditional sense of the Grand Old Party. I’m so disappointed, sometimes to tears, at where our country has come.”
Phillip
“I’ve disagreed with presidents before, but I’d never thought that one of them was putting his personal wealth and interests above that of my country.”
Brian
“I spent 10 years active duty as a Navy Seabee, and I’m still in the reserve. And we have to get rid of this Commander in Chief.”
Cindy
“I could not vote for Donald Trump. He was such a liar, bully, and amoral man, particularly in the way that he treated women.”
Brandon
“He has completely eroded our democratic norms, values, and institutions, in his pursuit of an imperial presidency accountable to no one.”
John
“Left unchecked, this man will single-handedly destroy the great legacy which was handed to us by past generations. Is this the country we want to leave to our children?”
Chase
“The only way to return our party and our country to civility, to decorum, to leadership, to the party and country of morals and ethical fortitude is to vote for Joe Biden.”
George
“I worked in commercial real estate in the New York and New Jersey area since the late 1980s, and I knew full well that Donald Trump had no competence and even less integrity… dumb and dishonest is a really bad combination.”
Chris
“Now I refuse to succumb to the scourge of populism. Its vile hate for our fellow citizens, its hijacking of Christian values is just not what I was raised on, and I won’t tolerate it locally and I sure as hell am not going to tolerate it from a president.”
Cheryl
“He’s costing thousands of lives…I just will not vote for Trump. I believe he’s an evil man, and we have to get him out of office.”
Ted
“I didn’t vote for Trump simply because I knew he would make a mockery of our presidency, and turn what is our highest office into a melodrama.”
Shami
“I thought he was full of it and he certainly is full of it. I would vote for anybody other than Trump at this point.”
Charles
“Mr. Trump acted as a bully, demeaning true conservative leaders, and showing a lack of character. And as I emphasized as a pastor character counts, yes, character counts.”
Shawn
“The Republican party I knew and loved was an honorable party. It was a party that believed in governance. It believed in dialogue with those that disagreed with us. The Trump cult has none of that.”
Billy
“I have never voted for a Democrat in my entire life…I am going to vote for Joe Biden on November 3rd, and I will not feel conflicted about it.”
Lisa
“As a citizen, I’m disgusted. People keep saying that suburban women are going to change this election… I’m going to vote for Joe Biden”
Denise
“And I think that Trump is definitely a threat to our democracy…The only way that we have a chance for our democracy to survive is not to reelect Donald Trump this year.”
Nancy
“I voted for Donald Trump in 2016, reluctantly…but I don’t know who these people are anymore. So I will be voting for Joe Biden.”
Josh
“If Joe Biden drops out and the DNC runs a tomato can, I will vote for the tomato can because I believe the tomato can will do less harm than our current president.”
Justin
“I did five deployments in service of this nation. I view myself as a patriot and as someone who truly loves this country…Forget party, do the right thing in 2020.”
Dennis
“The only way that the Republican party can change is if Donald Trump is soundly defeated. It’s important for us to have two political parties…that reflect what America looks like.”
Drew
“I was a huge Trump supporter and I can now say that was the biggest mistake of my life”
Robert
“I would really hope that more Republicans could bring themselves to recognize…that a Democrat is hardly going to be the end of the world”
Matthew
“Read his own comments, and then ask yourself, ‘Is this who I want leading this country?’ As we’ve seen from this pandemic, having a lack of leadership is cost over 120,000 Americans their lives.”
Bill
“This is not what supporting and defending the Constitution means to me and other military veterans… I hope you will vote for Joe Biden”
Lynn
“I’m voting for Joe Biden because moral character matters.”
Michael
“Maybe he can do things in a different way because I disagreed with how politicians did things on both sides of the aisle. I was wrong.”
Mark
“He’s made multiple mistakes with the coronavirus. As a physician, I can see that, and it’s bad for our country.”
Christian
“He had no grasp of foreign policy or domestic policy. He had pulled out full-page ads on teenage kids calling for the death penalty. What sane person would vote for that?”
Neva
“We have confusion and disarray and division coming from the White House. And we can’t take that anymore.”
Alan
“But in 2020, it’s about the very soul, the very survival, of our Republic… So, in 2020, let’s go Joe!”
Paul
“President Biden can help us heal the wounds that Donald Trump has poured salt in, again and again, during his time as president.”
Ashton
“I’m as red as you can get on a lot of issues…But when will enough be enough?”
Matthew
“…I was always taught that the Republican Party … stood for decency. They stood for equality. They stood for rights of all humankind. And up until Donald Trump, I 100% believed that.”
Missy
“I voted for Gary Johnson in 2016, but there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t regret not just voting for Hillary Clinton.”
Alan
“We defeated the Soviet Union. We stood for freedom around the world. We don’t stand for those things anymore.”
Paul
“To those who remain in the party, you will eventually sacrifice every principle that you hold- you know this”
Bob
“This was a man for whom Lincoln would be embarrassed. I know that I am embarrassed to have him as the president of the United States.”
Elsie
“I’m eighty-seven years old. And I don’t know if I’ll be able to go to Arizona one more time and see my family or not, the way he’s handled things.”
Chris
“He divides us. He lies to us all the time. This guy is only bringing our country down, and he is unfit for office. So I ask everyone listening: this November, I will be casting my vote, and I ask you guys to cast your vote for Joe Biden.”
Matt
“…I understand somewhat of what it’s like to be in the halls of power. And I am not voting for Donald Trump. I can no longer defend the indefensible, and I’m sick of trying.”
John
“The George Floyd death and the protest that followed, his threat to use military against American citizens, I just can’t comprehend”
Paul
“Now it’s truly manifest as a fear of … how he is degrading our democracy and doing so many things contrary to the rule of law … I do think that he simply wants to be a dictator.”
Ken
“to hear a commander-in-chief say he does not like or support a U.S. prisoner of war… He does not deserve a second term in office.”
Dawn
“When there is a pandemic happening, there are no colors of states. They are all your citizens. Respect them, take care of them. So I will not be voting for him in 2020.”
Dan
“He’s going to do what benefits him or what he believes will benefit him. Family and Christian values? What a joke. This guy has Trump values.”
Oscar
“…I saw that the reality that these internet groups had created were all fantasy. They were hiding, purposefully hiding, certain wrongdoings … that Donald Trump had done while in office…”
Matt
“He panders to racism and he takes this human instinct that likes to divide ourselves into groups and he amplifies that with emotion and hatred”
Jerry
“My biggest concern with Donald Trump is his utter disregard for the truth. To me, that is the root issue of all the problems with Trumpism and what it’s become with the Republican party.”
Paul
“As an evangelical Christian, I have a lot of trouble with him. How can people like me support someone who has none of our values?”
Mark
“Who is going to be a leader that we can point children and impressionable young people to say that’s what a leader looks like? … That is not Donald Trump.”
Chad
“I’ve pretty much voted straight Democrat, not because I agree with every part of their policy platform, but because the Republican party has completely sold out to Trumpism”
Julia
“I’ve been voting since I was 18. I registered as a Republican and I’ve been a registered Republican ever since. And no, I did not vote for Trump and I’m not going to vote for the liar-in-chief. He has ruined everything good about this country. “
Bryan
“His default position is to blame other people, to find the fault in others, rather than taking responsibility for his own failures and the failures of his administration.”
Chris
“Lindsay Graham, you said it best. Joe Biden is a man of character. A man of honor. What did you say about Donald Trump? Exactly. He’s a sociopath. This man, all he wants is everything for himself.”
Lara
“My biggest issue with Trump is the constant barrage of lies…the kind of corruption that taints, in the minds of many, what conservatism even really is.”
Dale
Carol
“He doesn’t know anything. He doesn’t listen to anybody. He doesn’t believe in science…There’s no way that I can vote for him and I’m going to do whatever I can to not get him reelected. “
Chad
“Donald Trump’s GOP has been thoroughly corrupted, he stands for none of the values of the party of my youth. Fiscal responsibility, states’ rights, family values, honesty, constitutionality, Donald Trump cares for none of these things.”
Scott
“I helped found the largest Republican organization in my county, and even held office for 12 years as a Republican. But I cannot find myself ever voting for Donald Trump.”
Zane
“Since I voted for number 45 in 2016..I have never felt less safe in the United States than I do right now with him in charge.”
Judy
“It’s almost like he doesn’t care where our country ends up as long as he’s getting what he wants out of the position of being a president.”
Jeff
“Until 2016, I voted for every GOP candidate at every level…This year, I will vote for Joe Biden. Never thought I’d say that.”
Frank
“He has not lived up to the central needs of the office, providing leadership, vision, integrity, inclusivity… He stepped aside from those…requirements of the office and what we want to see as Republicans.”
Danika
“Why I voted for Donald Trump came down ultimately to the Supreme Court, the opportunity to appoint two to three Supreme Court justices. . . Even though there is perhaps another seat in the next four years that will be filled, I cannot justify doing that again.”
Harvey
“I strongly believe that good character and judgment are crucial qualities in a president. And it was clear that Trump was plainly lacking in those attributes…”
Ann
“So I’ve been around a long time, and I’ve seen a lot what it means to be a real conservative . . . I have decided to vote for Joe Biden . . . We’ve got to change this trajectory, and four more years of Trump would just be disastrous.”
Kim
“I really could not abide by the fact that the GOP, which I thought had been a grand, distinguished party, would embrace a man like Donald Trump. I have not again voted GOP, and I will never return to the GOP…”
Nicholas
“I’ve been a Republican for several years now, but I will not be voting for Donald Trump. He’s a compulsive liar. He has no respect for women, no understanding of complex immigration issues, has a blatant disregard for the Constitution and rule of law.”
Emil
“I knew what a fraud Donald Trump was … So I didn’t vote in 2016. That was an enormous mistake. Donald Trump is a fraud, a con man, a liar, and he’s ruining our country.”
Roy
“And I would probably vote for almost anybody other than Trump in this upcoming election just because I know that just about anybody who can be running will have more character than Donald Trump … He scares me.”
Mary
“I could not ever vote for Donald Trump. I will be voting for Joe Biden in 2020 and I hope you will join me. This chapter in America has to come to an end.”
Scott
“I hope you can join with me and get this guy out of office because if we don’t, I am truly terrified about what will happen to this country that I love so much.”
Mark
“Sadly, the current president knows only grievance, division, and avarice. I will proudly vote for Joe Biden this year.”
Cheves
“Trump’s requirement of unquestioning loyalty is what the old folks used to call idolatry. I don’t want anything to do with that ever again.”
Lee
“…It’s time that we have a man who is sane and solemn, kind of like we had when I voted for Jerry Ford. We needed Jerry Ford then. I think we need Joe Biden now.”
Siobhan
“I was a grownup in the 1980s, and I remember Donald Trump very, very well. And I could not believe that the Republican Party did not properly vet this man.”
Brett
” These past four years have been a train wreck. They’ve been an embarrassment…therefore, I’m throwing all my support behind Joe Biden for president.”
Michael
“In 2016, America was swindled by one of the greatest con men of all time. But this time in 2020, we get to choose knowing full well who and what Donald Trump is. This time, if we get fooled again, the shame is on us.”
Al
“I have been a registered Republican and voted conservative all my life. But the man that holds the office, the man that has totally disgraced the office of president of the United States”
Mark
“I just want to tell everybody that I’ve been watching this guy in charge of the United States tear it apart piece by piece. I’ve never seen such disaster my entire life. I’m going to vote for Joe Biden in November and I would hope that any reasonable mind would do the same.”
Gonzalo
“As an immigrant, I have a unique perspective about America. It is my opinion that America is a symbol of hope for the rest of the world. And that is why hardworking immigrants want to make this nation their home. Please join me and lets take back our nation and our beloved Republican party.”
Robert
“I believe Trump’s place in history will be one of infamy. Defeat Trump, eradicate Trumpism, and dismantle his sycophantic GOP.”
Hamilton
“I haven’t decided exactly what I’m going to do, whether it’s independent, like I did last time, or vote for Biden, but I know it absolutely cannot be Trump. He disrespects the country, he disrespects the party, he disrespects everything, and he should not be in this position.”
David
“I believe that Donald Trump is pushing us very close to the end of democracy as we know it … We’ve become too tribal, and we’re more focused on party than country.”
Bob
“Now I didn’t really take Trump’s campaign seriously, cause I really had no thought that he had any chance of getting elected, but he did. And now not only has he been elected, he’s purged his cabinet of everybody who might talk back to him.”
Peter
“I’m tired of Trump’s inability to grasp the situation for the country, as opposed to just for his own personal political goals or his own name, aims or self aggrandizement.”
Thomas
“If they put a circus monkey up with a little hat, that’s who it would get my vote instead of Trump this time. It’s just embarrassing. I meet people from all over the world on my job, and they all laugh at us.”
Debbie
“I do not believe that Trump stands for the democratic principles that this country was founded upon, nor do I believe that he stands for the Republican Party’s belief . . . in small government and low taxes.”
Tyler
“Our nation is so fractured. He’s only making it worse. He says that he’s a Reagan Republican. He wants to make America great again. But great how?”
Vonda
“I just think that it’s become more of a cult than a support for a party. I don’t think the people support the Republican party. I think they would support Donald Trump.”
Terrell
“In this election, I have to vote for Joe Biden. Not because I love Joe Biden, but because I need America to know that we are better than what is being presented to us.”
Larry
“He demeans members of his own party…as well as the most unforgivable thing, his demeaning of John McCain and his family. That’s a disgrace.”
Michele
“I served in the military… I was a Republican … I don’t know if they can fix the Republican party to bring us back. Donald Trump and his henchmen and henchwomen have got to go.”
Daniel
“It’s not some ANTIFA members playing Trotsky cosplay that’s going to kill America, it’s going to be unaccounted for corruption. And that is all this administration is, is unaccounted for corruption. So, I will be voting for Joe Biden and I hope all of my former Republican friends will join me in voting for Joe Biden.”
Elyse
“I grew up in the New York area in the seventies and eighties and I saw what kind of businessman he is. He does not lead by consensus. He does not lead by bringing people together. He leads by bullying.”
David
“I ask everybody to get out there and vote for Biden. And get this dangerous child out of office.”
Guillermo
“Anyway, he’s just not, a person of integrity and a leader that I think we can have leading us through all these things that we’re dealing with right now.”
Lansford
“I would say that the biggest mistake I ever made was voting for Donald Trump in the Republican primary. What a mistake!”
Mark
“I don’t want to say that the party changed. I think it’s more of the worst part of the party just became so mainstream. So like racism, xenophobia, bigotry.”
Janice
“Trump gave us exactly what he promised…a divisive, sexist, racist, narcissistic decision-maker and leader, who has threatened the very fabric of our society.”
Trey
“His policies have steered what Republicanism and conservatism mean in a completely different direction than what I believe in.”
Franz
“So my main reason for voting against Trump in this upcoming election is that he has demonstrated that he’s not for the times, the times that we’re in requires somebody who will value everyone, right?”
Kris
“As a father and a voter, I have to base my vote on what I think our republic will look like in 100 years. Trumpism will take us down the wrong path.”
Matthew
“He’s just completely damaged us and something needs to be done about that. We need to change direction.”
Gregory
“Whether you agree with Donald Trump or not, the flat, cold reality is that he can’t govern.”
Alan
“Watching Republicans change their position on so many issues is just simply mind boggling. The only way Republicans can go back to who they were is to get a Democrat in office.”
Peter
“He has dragged, not just the party, but every single member of the United States Senate and the United States Congress in to his dirty little cave”
Jay
“I voted for Donald Trump in 2016. I cannot and will not vote for Donald Trump in 2020”
Joan
“… I hope that I can vote for Joe Biden. I believe that he is an honorable man … I am also a Christian, and I feel that Donald Trump is extremely immoral.
And I do not want him leading our nation.”
Rhonda
“Trump is a puppet. He is a puppet of foreign leaders. He is a puppet of money who got him here. Christian values matter, Republican values matter…”
Ellen
“I’m a never Trump Christian Constitutional Conservative with no political home. Trump has destroyed everything the former Republican party stood for and has turned it into the Trumplican Party.”
Mark
“There is a lot of healing that needs to take place. And I simply do not think that president Trump is capable of doing anything about that healing.”
Charles
“I watch as Trump twists this country’s leadership into his own personal podium for spreading fear and uncertainty. He ridicules opportunities for unification at a time when we’re desperate for it.”
Kevin
“…even the worst case predictions from four years ago failed to capture the enormity of just how terrible the Trump administration would prove to be.”
Joni
“I’m going to do everything in my power to help Joe Biden win this next presidential election. We do not need this narcissist in the White House any longer.”
Tom
“Unlike the Republican party of today, and certainly unlike the man currently occupying the White House, I have values. Values that compel me to put my country first.”
David
“In my opinion, Donald Trump’s not a Republican. He’s an authoritarian who uses the judicial arm of government to perform character assassinations and to try and eliminate political rivals.”
Elaine
“The fact that he’s going to give them the judges that they want means that they’ll overlook anything. And I actually mean anything. A hundred thousand deaths due to COVID, vast and blatant corruption”
Steve
“He’s corrupted the party, he’s corrupted the souls of many people who work for him.”
Thomas
“What were we thinking? I mean, look at us. Republicans, we elected a game show host as president. A game show host!”
Kenny
“I did vote for a third party in 2016…But this time it’s just too important for Donald Trump to not get another four years. So this year I plan to vote for Joe Biden for president.”
Kevin
“How can anyone vote for someone like that? Someone who, whose very goal, clearly, is to consolidate power for himself at the expense of others and at the expense of this country.”
Tom
“My vote four years ago, went to Donald Trump. This year it will not go to Donald Trump.”
Jonathan
“.. they see a president who is of such low, low character and who is wrapping himself up in labels pro-life, pro-family. And … he’s offering us a counterfeit version of that.”
Zach
“Every day since November 8th, 2016, Donald Trump has proven to me that voting for him was the greatest mistake of my life.”
Lance
“I voted for him in 2016 and I will not vote for him regardless if there’s anybody even running against him at this point. He has shamed us.”
Jeremy
“I will be voting for Joe Biden in 2020. This will be my first time voting for a Democrat. And not only am I voting for Joe Biden, but I have also donated to his campaign and I will be volunteering for his campaign.”
Heather
“We need to have some standards in this country and we need to get back to our standing in the world as a leader and not as an embarrassment.”
Aaron
“I will be voting for Joe Biden because we need somebody in the White House who actually cares for the people in this country
Jonathan
“I got the sense … that the Republican Party wasn’t about values or principles anymore. It wasn’t about these beliefs that could unite various groups of people together.”
Terry
“Donald Trump needs to be out of office as soon as possible, and we need to put some sanity back in there.”
Marsha
“My hope is that people of all parties are tired of the chaos, deceit, bad behavior and unrest, and decide that Trump must go.”
Steve
“You know, Democrats may be angry, but true Republicans are pissed. We want our party back.”
Jacob
“In 2020, I will not be voting for Donald Trump because Donald Trump is not a Republican”
Whitney
“To watch how Joe Biden has gone to the people, has called for unity, has been with the protestors and have pledged himself to bring this country back together. Where Trump on his pulpit has done just the opposite.”
Jim
“We have the worst president, and I don’t say this lightly, in the history of the United States. He has divided this great nation”
James
“I’m posting this video after a few weeks, a few years of feeling regret and almost ashamed of my vote in 2016.”
Ron
“The only way we’re going to save the soul of the Republican party and make America great again, is to get Donald Trump out of office.”
Wayne
“I voted for President Trump. And I was hoping he’d become a little more presidential but he has not. He’s gotten worse.”
Robert
“I’m a Republican, I’ll always be a Republican, and I hope other Republicans wake up to the reality that Donald Trump is not a Republican.”
Joy
“I will be voting for Joe Biden this election. I may not totally agree with the Democratic platform…but at least I think it will bring honor and empathy back to the office of the president”
Jason
“It’s amazing to me at how we can get all riled up and we can march in favor of the Second Amendment, but we seem to have forgotten that the right to protest is a part of the First Amendment.”
Candace
“I’m terrified that this office is being demolished by this man, that our country is being harmed irreparably.”
Matt
“I don’t want to die knowing that I supported somebody who could wreak havoc on the future. I have two daughters, I’m thinking about how they’re impacted.”
Don
“It’s scary from the standpoint of where we’re headed fiscally. I also studied the character of Donald Trump during his history … And I cannot condone his actions and could never vote for him.”
Terry
“I’m happily going to vote for Joe Biden this November and I’m hoping that we can restore the office of the president and bring back some integrity and character.”
Joel
“I’ll be voting for Joe Biden because Donald Trump is totally unfit for office.He’s unfit intellectually, he’s unfit temperamentally, and he’s unfit morally.”
Melanie
” I trusted and felt secure in voting the party in times I hadn’t done enough research to really know a candidate. I don’t have that confidence today.”
Phil
“… my fear is that if Donald Trump continues as president, many of those freedoms will no longer be with us.”
Dan
“I’m tired of it. I just want all this to end. I want a president who actually loves America, actually has some sense of normalcy.”
Noah
“I plead to every Republican, both young and old, make the right choice. Vote for Joe Biden.”
Ronald
“Donald Trump has given us the 1918 pandemic, the 1929 Great Depression and the 1968 race riots all in one…and he’s at the forefront pouring gasoline on the fire.”
Chris
“… I can’t even consider myself a fiscal conservative anymore because today I was shot at, with rubber bullets, by my own local law enforcement officials.”
Dan
“I’ve never seen a man in public view act like this. Be so immoral. Be so petulant and vindictive.”
Lawrence
“The country’s on fire and Trump hoses it down with gasoline. At a time that our country needs real leadership, it’s invisible.”
Shennelleh
“I don’t believe Trump is an actual Republican. We all took it in and voted for him, but I don’t believe he truly cares about Republican values.”
Jimmy
“There is absolute chaos in the streets of the United States of America. We have to do everything in our power to see that he is not elected to another term.”
Mack
“If you want a better country, you have to vote to put a better man in the White House than Donald Trump.”
Jessica
“I probably would have voted for him again had all the things with the coronavirus not taken place.”
Jim
“Our elected officials are absent and the only time that they are actually involved is to threaten with more violence or to call out the military.”
Bill
“I oppose him because he’s an authoritarian. I oppose Bernie Sanders because he’s an authoritarian. I don’t want an authoritarian.”
Randall
“I don’t think that I’ve heard an honest statement come out of that man’s mouth ever.”
Claudia
“I will be voting for Joe Biden and I don’t fully agree with everything that he stands for, but I do agree with taking our power back and rebuilding America and getting rid of Donald Trump.”
Tim
“Our country is in a world of hurt. The economy is not what people thinks it is… [Trump passed] a massive tax break where the wealthy benefitted, not us!”
Pejman
“He has decided to fan the flames of racial hatred, all in order to try and secure the support of his base”
Phillip
“…He’s the most immoral, dishonest, corrupt man to ever hold a seat in our Oval Office. He uses fear to manipulate. He’s like a tyrant, like a dictator.”
Ethan
“As the months, the years have gone by now, more and more I’ve come to realize that the Republican party I was a part of, believed in, doesn’t exist.”
John
“If he knows anything out of the Bible, I’d give you a million dollars because I don’t think he knows anything that’s in that book.”
Richard
” I’m a Republican because I believe in free markets and free trade. Donald Trump is a crony capitalist and protectionist.”
Laura
“I prayed and hoped that he would grow into the office and become the kind of president that we should have. He has not done that.”
Leo
“I’ve always voted Republican. I did not, and I do not, and I will not support Donald Trump.”
Frank
“Donald Trump has done nothing to unite us – just divide us.”
Aaron
“I’m just thoroughly disappointed with my own Republican representatives in Congress that power him and do not have the courage to speak up and out against the actions of Donald Trump.”
Andrew
“We probably disagree on most things, but I know that by voting for Joe Biden, I’ll be voting for decency and compassion in the Oval Office”
Scott
“It is a time for leadership. We are getting none.”
Ward
“I’m a registered Republican. I’ve never voted a for Democrat before in my life, but I will be in 2020.”
Brock
“Whatever transactional benefit you think you’re going to get out of keeping that guy in power, cause he’s got an R by his name, is delusional. I know what it feels like. But you know what? You gotta be loyal to your ideals. Don’t be loyal to some party.”
Brian
“I am a die hard Republican and I’ll be voting for Joe Biden this year.”
Frank
“Trump lacks character. So, come November, let’s show up for Joe Biden. Hell, if Joe Biden is a root canal, sometimes you need a root canal. You’re not going to like it, but maybe the pain will stop when it’s over.”
Serge
“I think that the nation is exhausted and embarrassed by the Trump presidency. I think it’s also appalled, genuinely appalled at the callousness and cruelty of Republican governance.”
John
“After being an early-on supporter of him, I found him to be a liar and a cheat and a con man, and a distorter of fact.”
Douglas
“What particularly galls me is Trump’s attack on the Constitution, the safe guards, the guard rails of the Constitution designed to create co-equal branches of government.”
Tom
“There will be no ‘Biden For President’ bumper sticker on my car, but Donald Trump is a direct threat to my country.”
Dan
“I wouldn’t vote for Donald Trump with a gun to my head.”
Dick
“Even though it’s been quite awhile since I was in the army, I really value NATO. And I think that his treatment has been a travesty.”
Patricia
“He is interested only in himself and what this country can give him and his family. He doesn’t give a hoot about any one of us”
Frederick
“I could not have been more wrong. He has not grown into the presidency. All he has done is corrupt the presidency and lower it. He has debased the presidency of the United States.”
Marka
“I don’t hear him state a direction, a consistent direction, for where he wants America to go”
Lena
“Trump’s leadership style is tearing our country further apart, which is exactly opposite of what we need during this pandemic.”
Bart
“I do not believe that Donald Trump is a Republican, I don’t believe the ideals that he’s espousing are Republican”
Jim
“We simply can’t take four more years of this chump. Vote for Joe Biden. Let’s return decency to the West Wing.”
Peter
“I believe Donald Trump has not been a consensus builder. He has divided our country.”
Conor
“Because of his selfishness and the fact he’s so indifferent to the country, he has managed to divide us more than ever… And that is frightening.”
Charles
“I’ve seen in Donald Trump impulsiveness and vindictiveness, childishness, nepotistic sort of corrupt behaviors on many, many levels.”
Carter
“I like to say he hijacked the party.”
Avery
“Thanks to Donald Trump, I will be voting for a Democrat for the very first time in my life.”
Michael
“America was already great before Trump became president. And it will be even greater after we vote him out of office in November.”
Joanne
“He is ruining the reputation of this country. He’s also destroying the GOP.”
Deb
“The demeaning of the free press, cozying up to autocrats like Putin and even now what he’s been doing with stoking the fires of racism with what happened in Minneapolis. I read that tweet this morning and I couldn’t believe it. I said, ‘This is the president of the United States?’ It’s crazy.”
David
“I voted for Donald Trump and spent 3 and a half years hoping he would become more presidential than he has and he has gotten progressively worse. His handling of the pandemic was the final straw.”
Nils
“I cannot vote for a man who mocks the disabled, diminishes a war hero like John McCain and spouts, vitriol and insults at fellow Americans.”
Diane
“This year, I will most probably be voting for Joe Biden. If I don’t, I will be voting for no one, in the hopes that Republicans will return to the principals in which they were founded. And bring the party back home to me.”
Bryan
“I’m going to vote for Joe Biden. I’m going to disagree with him a lot. But I don’t consider him a threat to the Republic.”
Terry
“It’s time that somebody brings sanity back to the White House.”
Joe
“When I compare Donald Trump with the great legacies of GOP president Eisenhower and Reagan, he just comes up short.”
Jim
“I’ve always registered as a Republican and in 2016 I voted for Donald Trump, but I’d like to share why I have doubts about doing that again.”
Jennifer
“There’s no amount of Republican judicial appointments or tax cuts that can offset or justify what Trump has done to destroy the rule of law in our country.”
Angie
“… we do what we believe is right. And if you don’t feel Donald Trump is right for us, you shouldn’t be voting for him.”
Jim
“Make no mistake. Voting for Donald Trump in 2020 is going to set the Republican party back for an entire generation.”
Norman
” I initially supported Trump because I was interested in having a non-politician and someone who would tell it like it is. And I was pretty frightened of Hillary Clinton. My opinion changed rather quickly after he got into office.”
Mark
“I don’t believe that Trump has ever in his life, had the best interests of anybody but him. I think it shows strongly in his character because he’s confused fealty for loyalty.”
Butch
“He’s leading us down a path that is going to continue to erode our democracy.”
Matthew
“President Trump has given us the biggest deficits and debt in U.S. history.”
Ralph
“I’m not totally satisfied with Biden as a president, but he’s a marked improvement over Trump.”
Sarah
“Being conservative is supposed to be about limited government. Donald Trump says that the president’s authority has to be absolute.”
Paul
“Every day he breaks my heart as an American in a new way… it’s to the point that he is actually scaring me, that our country will be able to continue”
John
“I don’t think he’s a good human being. I don’t think he’s a good example for my children and my grandchildren.”
Deborah
“We are no longer doing that and we are no longer doing that purposefully because our president is inciting the legitimacy of hate based politics, and that is not American. That is absolutely not an American.”
Chris
“Donald Trump is not fit to be president and he’s not pursuing traditional Republican policies.”
Diana
“Nationally, the divide that his leadership has created is concerning…it seems like there are two countries living in one.”
Roger
“It’s really the party of Trump. This is where I believe we need to have change within our own party and bring it back to what the true Republican party was.”
Chris
“I’m not even sure if we have a foreign policy. Meeting with Kim Jong Un on a
personal level is not foreign policy.”
Angela
“I think another four years of President Trump would be absolutely devastating to our party.”
Jeff
“I’ve helped elect Republicans and conservatives for more than 30 years. And the candidates I helped elect, and supported, and the party I was part of – doesn’t resemble anything that Donald Trump stands for.”
Cathe
“He has absolutely no respect for any individual voter.”
Mike
“Once the Coronavirus hit, I mean, I wouldn’t vote for him at all now.”
James
“All the problems of division that we have – he’s just made it worse.”
Dan
“My father taught me never to lie under any circumstances. Never to cheat anybody. I can’t imagine voting for Trump. I can imagine voting for Joe.”
Doug
“I served in the White House Counsel’s Office during the Watergate investigations…and they pale in comparison to the problems of Donald Trump.”
Lynn
“He seems to be someone who is more concerned about advancing his own agenda, enriching himself, as opposed to genuine concern about the country.”
Joe
“I think Biden can provide…stability and, frankly, make our politics a little more boring.”
Steve
“You know, there’s a reason I was a lifelong Republican. Those reasons don’t hold in today’s Republican party, as stunning as it is. But the first step is replacing Donald Trump, and then the work begins.”
Ken
“I’ve never voted Democrat in my entire life and there are certainly things left to be desired, however, the things that are most out of control now, Joe Biden stands to change that.”
Michael
“Republicans believe in restrained and responsible spending. Donald Trump has racked up record deficits.”
Wendie
“Honestly, I’m voting for Joe Biden because he is a decent person.”
Jamie
“This is who the president of our country is — he’s an abusive person.”
Tim
“As long as Trump prevails and Trumpism prevails, we cannot have the leader that we as a nation are entitled to.”
Bill
“A vote for anyone other than Joe Biden is a vote for Donald Trump. Come November, I want to be able to tell Donald Trump, he’s fired.”
Don
“Voting Donald Trump out is not only the best thing for the Republican Party…it is without a doubt the best thing for this great nation.”
Tom
“I think 50 years from now, we’re going to look at the Trump presidency as a blemish, a dark spot in our nation’s history”
Chris
“I voted for him, hoping he would grow into the office. But after watching him for 3+ years, Donald Trump has clearly failed us as a leader.”
Marty
“Today, our government is spurning our closest allies, embracing our adversaries, and politicizing our military.”
Jeanine
“[My husband and I] thought we’d give Donald Trump a try. After a month I knew he was not fit for the office.”
Larry
“It’s to the point that we can’t believe anything anymore. We don’t know what’s real or not real. And he seems to think if he says it, that makes it reality.”
Joseph
“Do I want Joe Biden? Not really. But… four more years of Donald Trump will be disastrous for this country, for our place in the world, and for our ability to ever bring this country together again.”
Barb
“It’s okay to put country over party. In fact, it’s imperative to do that.”
Marc
“I just think Biden would be a far better president. We can endure him for four years and then hopefully the Republican Party would get back on track.”
Robert
“It has resulted in some short-term gains for himself and his inner circle, but long-term detriment for our country.”
Fred
“Trump is almost the opposite of what we need in a leader of this country. They say good leaders should be good listeners, and Trump is not a good listener.”
Danielle
“I don’t think the president is professionally qualified to be in the position that he’s in. I don’t think he has an understanding or grasp of the Constitution. I don’t think he cares about what’s legal.”
Jason
“Don’t beat up on the little guy. Don’t blame everything on immigrants. They are just trying to live like we are.”
JJ
“His lack of respect and his constant denigrating are not something I believe is admirable nor instills leadership.”
Chris
“Donald Trump must be defeated. We can’t afford another four years of him. America can do better.”
Alan
“My parents called me Alex Keaton growing up…Horrified that people like Mike Lee have capitulated to him rather than standing up to him and stopping him.”
Jeff
“Trump is a lot of things. But pro-life is not on the list.”
Carol
“I waited for the pivot to civility. Very unfortunately, that never happened.”
Jan
“What he has done to the country and the office of the presidency is far worse than anything I imagined.”
Donna
“I do not believe that the current president shares Lincoln’s views on equality, nor mine.”
Max
“As far as the GOP, when they return to fiscal responsibility and common sense, I will support that conservative ideology…I go back the day the GOP rejects conspiracists.”
Mark
I joined the Republican Party in 1978, and “I really felt good about being a Republican during the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush.”
Jay
“I did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016. We in New Jersey knew him well, knew precisely what he was and sadly, what was likely to happen if he were elected.”
Pat
“He is a liar, a cheat, and has done much to destroy the dignity and integrity of his office.”
Christopher
“If you were to support President Trump… you have to own his behavior on Twitter, you have to own his past history.”
David
“I didn’t vote for Donald J. Trump in 2016, but I’m going to vote for Joe Biden this year. Trump has no positive relevance to the Coronavirus, nor our own global relevance.”
Robert
“My problems with the current president revolve around fundamental character flaws”
Lassie
“Donald Trump came along and hijacked the Republican Party.”
David
“I can’t support this far right social agenda, this lack of even a pretense of fiscal responsibility”
Jay
“He lies continuously. He lies about the lies that he told yesterday.”
Mike
“Deep down, we know we need a president who better represents us as Republicans and for who we want to be as citizens.”
Dan
“He lies about everything. ‘Thou shalt not bear false witness.’ It’s not just a good idea. It’s a commandment.”
Gary
“Donald Trump cherishes loyalty, but not loyalty to the United States of America. He cherishes loyalty to Donald Trump.”
Ann
“I realized that the party had left me.”
Erik
“You can’t look at this thing, as a true Republican, and say, ‘This is what we want for our party.'”
Joshua
“The party of family values doesn’t really have any values at all. It’s a cover.”
Diane
“His handling of Covid-19 is an American tragedy and shame.”
Lisa
“Donald Trump mocked John McCain. He berated that American hero. He said that he didn’t like people that were captured.”
Allison
“Trump has abandoned our allies and embraced those whose ideals are contrary to everything my father, grandfather and great-grandfather fought for.”
Dave
“He spends most of his time blaming everyone else and failing to take responsibility. A president needs to take responsibility.”
Sharon
During the coronavirus pandemic, “all Donald Trump can do is stand in front of the cameras and brag about himself, instead of offering comfort and solace…”
Jon
“Year after year, and day after day, he continues to mock, make fun of, and degrade people.”
Jim
“I have a great respect for American history – also for the rule of law and for our Constitution… Donald Trump does not respect any of those things.”
Rich
“Ironically, Biden will exemplify the principles I hold dear as a conservative; accountability, responsibility, and transparency, incomparably better than Donald Trump.”
Debra
“I cannot vote for a man who maliciously sows discord, incessantly lies, and has a blatant disregard for immigrants and for our system of checks and balances.”
Sarah
“He says he puts America first, but it’s clear he only knows how to put Trump first.”
Linda
“I expect the leader of the United States to be… a positive example for the youth and children of the United States of America.”
Trevor
“Donald Trump tried to use the power of the president for his own personal gain, and I will not defend or excuse that for any politician.”
Rick
“I don’t believe he really works for the good of the American people. He works for the good of his own image.”
Garry
“It sickens me to see our…career civil servants, who have dedicated their lives to serve and protect the American public, demeaned and degraded”
Howard
“We have lost the spirit of even attempting to work together and this is why I cannot support Donald Trump’s re-election bid.”
Steve
“Donald Trump is not a Republican, nor does he represent any of the values that the Republican Party that I know represents.”
Ryan
“I will vote for Joe Biden because I think getting rid of Donald Trump is that important, not just for the Republican party, but for the soul and character of our nation.
Tony
“We need to have, once again, an adult in the room leading this country. And I think Joe Biden is more than capable in doing that.”
John
“He primarily cares about himself, about what is good for him personally. He is an ego in search of a photo opportunity.”