PLANO, July 24 — Texas attorney Monica Haft voted for Donald Trump in 2016 and regretted it almost immediately. Now barely 100 days before a critical US presidential election, the lifelong Republican insists she won't repeat her mistake. She expects other disillusioned conservatives to join her...
Texas attorney Monica Haft in Plano, Texas July 21, 2020. A lifelong Republican she has now turned against President Donald Trump. — AFP pic
“We have to get him out,” Haft, 51, told AFP in this conservative city north of Dallas, citing Trump's failed response to the coronavirus crisis and his general lack of fitness for office.Americans who supported Trump, but may not do so again, hold the 2020 election in their hands. “I have several friends and colleagues who voted for him who now regret it, or are Republicans who didn't vote in the last election and now are going to vote for Joe Biden,” she said.
The former vice president leads in national polling, and is also ahead in major swing states Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. While Biden has yet to commit to a full-on multi-million-dollar ground game in Texas, many Democrats, like strategist Jane Hamilton of Dallas, are pushing team Biden to do so.
Tarrant's Republican Party chairman, Rick Barnes, acknowledged Texas will be won or lost in the suburbs.
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