Undecided Voter Leaning Toward Biden Because Trump Failed to Hide Hush Money Payment
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The New York Times held a focus group following former President Donald Trump’s convictions in his porn star hush money case and published the full transcript of the discussion, moderated by pollster Frank Luntz, on Monday.
The eleven people Luntz spoke to were all swing voters who had voted for either Joe Biden or Hillary Clinton in the past as well as Trump.
As the discussion regarding how the verdict impact the voters’ opinions on the election, Luntz was stunned that many were still undecided.
“OK, that leads to the next question. How the heck can you be undecided at this point? How could you still be undecided at this point between Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Robert Kennedy Jr.? Please explain it to me,” Luntz said.
One voter, a 55-year-old named Hilary, replied, “Well, I think I disclosed earlier that the conviction makes it so I can’t imagine voting for Trump. Obviously, Kennedy is a nonfactor for me. Biden’s — oof. Oof. Got to love it.”
“How do you spell ‘oof’? How is The New York Times supposed to transcribe that? What is that word?” Luntz asked Hilary.
“O-O-O-O-F. I mean, we’re just going to really go there. I can envision casting a vote for Biden and then needing a very stiff drink afterward,” replied Hilary, reiterating her dissatisfaction with all three of her choices.
Luntz eventually turned to a 42-year-old male named Ben. “You’re up. Can you explain why undecided?” Luntz asked.
“A couple people have mentioned a massive judicial conspiracy of everybody going after him. OK, let’s talk conspiracy math here,” Ben replied, adding:
The sheer number of people who would have to be working together to get something like this working just boggles the mind. And have you ever tried to get four people to agree on what to order for pizza? I just don’t see this working out. And at the end of the day, OK, fine. OK, I’m going to side with Jonathan on this one, saying, what’s the big deal about bribing Stormy Daniels? But I want a president who’s going to be able to cover up a $130,000 bribe to Daniels. If he can’t pull that off, I’m not going to trust him with the nuclear football. This seems like such an easy thing for him to screw up. I’m kind of leaning toward Biden now.
Ben’s answer was screen-shotted by several readers and went viral online for his novel argument as to why Trump is not competent enough to lead the country.
Another answer of Ben’s went viral online as well, when he was asked to weigh in on whether or not Trump’s trial was “rigged,” he replied:
We’re all regular people with regular jobs. If any of us all did, like, one-thousandth of what this guy did for being on trial, the financial stuff, the forms, the bribes, the meeting with people, we all would have been fired. We all would have been out on our butts, applying for jobs at grocery stores or driving Uber or whatnot. You’re saying it’s all, like, a political theater and farce and whatnot. But he was having an affair with a porn star and not a particularly attractive one at that. There are so many wonderful porn stars out there.
Read the full transcript here.
