By Jason Cohen, Daily Caller News Foundation | February 14, 2025
A Connecticut mother explained on Thursday why she voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 after casting ballots for independent candidates in 2016 and 2020.
In an appearance on journalist Mark Halperin’s “2WAY Tonight” Axios’ Trump White House reporter Marc Caputo asked a woman identified as Alex when she decided she had to vote for Trump rather than an independent candidate in the 2024 election. She cited the treatment of children and parents under former President Joe Biden’s administration as the main motivator.
“There’s a lot of reasons, but I would say the biggest reason was what was done to my children during the Biden years regarding masks and vaccines and coming after parents,” Alex said. “A lot of what was going on in the schools. And I basically wanted a return to the late ’90s … and Trump, to me, seems like a return to the late ’90s. I want inappropriate jokes. I want fun.”
Earlier during her appearance on “2WAY Tonight,” Alex expressed outrage at Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland issuing a memo on Oct. 4, 2021 directing the FBI to “use its authority” in response to the “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.”
The memo followed a letter from the National School Board Association (NSBA) that requested the federal government get involved in the “immediate threat” of parents who spoke and protested at school board meetings. The NSBA claimed the incidents could be “the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.”
“To see that come from our Justice Department, attacking everyday Americans that were just trying to do right by their kids, was so all-encompassing as a parent you’ll never know … as a person who saw that and reacted to it, it was the government coming against their own people and attacking their own people for something I think is absolutely outrageous,” Alex said.
Parents at the time were leading the charge against controversial issues, including mask and vaccine requirements.
A previously reluctant Trump voter on Halperin’s “The Morning Meeting” said on Feb. 7 that she was happy to support the president in 2024 after experiencing Biden’s administration and witnessing Trump’s “perseverance.”
“I actually love him now,” Jackie said. “Like, it was, ‘I’m gonna hold my nose and vote for him.’ And after the last four years … I like everything about him.”
Jason Cohen is a reporter at the Daily Caller News Foundation
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