“I will never, ever vote for this man again after what happened at our Capitol building.”
“I’ve been a lifelong Republican. I voted for Trump in 2016, 2020. I will never, ever vote for this man again after what happened at our Capitol building. I’m a retired state trooper. After what happened in the Capitol building and watching those poor officers being assaulted by that group. Those thugs or criminals, I call them, but their leader was clearly Trump and his cult members. I hope I’m not considered one of the cult members. I don’t think I am. I think I can backtrack and get away from that and say never again. I prefer to keep my democracy.
“As a child, we left an authoritarian country, Cuba. I remember leaving that country at the age of nine, ten years old. I remember my parents telling me, ‘Whatever we say in this house, stays in this house. Do not repeat anything we say outside of these walls.’ And that was for fear of any reprisals against us from the Cuban government. We left that country. So we can go to a democracy and now all of a sudden we want to get away from that. I don’t think so after what I saw happen in that Capitol building. I will never, ever support anyone, Republican, Democrat, independent, who believes in that kind of leadership.”