Owen  /  Ohio

“Trump doesn’t really represent my Christian values at all.”

Video Transcript

“ My name is Owen. I’m from Ohio. I voted for Donald Trump in 2020, and I will not be voting for him in 2024.

“The main reason why I can’t support Trump again is, it was hard for me because I have supported him for a very long time. I actually was an original supporter. I supported him since 2015 ’cause I saw him as different and I felt like my voice wasn’t getting heard and I kind of got swayed into that, and I felt like that for a while.

“I actually, though back then I wasn’t a Christian, I became a Christian in 2019, actually gave my life to the lord then. And ever since then, I’ve been kind of slowly drifting away from him and realizing that like, wait, Trump doesn’t really represent my Christian values at all.

“Other presidents that when they mess up, it wasn’t intentional. You look at, for example, President Hoover, he had the Great Depression, of course, which was horrible. But Hoover wasn’t like, ha ha, I’m destroying the economy.

“Trump, on the other hand, did something bad intentionally. He intentionally incited this insurrection by shouting, fight like hell.

“And that’s what a lot of these people in the MAGA movement did. They listened to Trump’s lyrics. And even if Trump may not have been intentional with it, which I think he was, but even if you think he wasn’t, just hearing that will excite you. It’ll make you wanna go to DC and think that, hey, if our republic is in danger by this, you know this guy Biden, I need to do something about it. So what happens? They got violent.

“They started breaking windows and attacking the police there. And many congressman, senators were fearing for their lives. Even some of the ones that kind of supported it, like Josh Hawley were even running for his life. And it was bad.

“I even like went out on Facebook and like said that I totally, you know, denounce my support for Trump

“As someone from Ohio, I know a lot about Vice Presidential Nominee JD Vance.

“So he ran for Senate in 2022. And I’ll have to say he was actually the first Republican I did not vote for. I voted for Tim Ryan. That’s how much I didn’t like him. I saw him as arguably, in some ways even worse than Trump, feeding a lot of that same rhetoric, but also blunt about it.

“I even saw him live and he even met him and all that time he basically was just bashing RINOs. Which when I see a Republican bash RINOs I know right there, say like, oh, we’re the uni-party. That rhetoric is just so divisive and it turns people like me off.

“I’ll be honest, I’m not as pro-Harris as I was pro-Biden, ’cause I think Harris sometimes can be a little far left and I, I’ll be honest about that. And for a while, I actually considered voting third party or even abstaining. But then I realized, no, I need to support Kamala Harris. And the reason being for that is if I voted Libertarian or Robert Kennedy or abstain, I’m only taking a soft state against Trump.

“I’m basically saying that like, yeah, I don’t like Trump, but Harris is equally as bad, and I don’t know, he’s Trump’s whatever. But by voting Democrat as a Republican I am telling Trump and MAGA that no, I do not support this. You are turning my party, you are hijacking it into a cult of personality. I cannot stand for that at all. And by voting Democrat, I’m telling them, the people in the GOP that I will not stand for this. You guys aren’t representing me. I have conservative values, but this is not conservatism.”