Ex-Trump Voter Barely Conceals Disdain for Former President: ‘I’m Not Gonna Tell You What I Really Feel’

CNN’s Dana Bash spoke with New Hamshire GOP primary voters ahead of the vote on Tuesday and led a panel discussion in reacting to those voters’ sentiments.

“I have met, just in being here, back here the last 24 hours several New Hampshire voters who did vote for Trump in 2016 and are now not because of chaos like this. I want you to listen to one, Daniel Casperson,” Bash said before rolling the clip.

“I voted for Trump the very first election, yes,” Casperson said.

“In 2016?” Bash asked to which Casperson agreed. “And why not now?” she added.

“Why not now? Because I feel that, I’m not going to tell you what I really feel, but I think that he’s not very a very honest person. And, I think that he did a real disservice to our country on January 6th,” Casperson replied.

“And was that when you lost faith in him?” Bash followed up.

“No, I lost faith in him a long time before that,” Casperson replied.

Jackie Kucinich, the Washington bureau chief for the Boston Globe, weighed in first saying, “That’s exactly who Nikki Haley used to come out for her. That voter voters who maybe voted for Trump then voted for Biden. Those voters who, you know, really want to vote for a Republican again, but they’re not going to vote for Trump.”

“Those persuadable voters are exactly who you know, she needs, whether they’re, you know, undecided voters or whether they’re Republicans who are just, as she says, like over the drama. Um, it’s the same voters that DeSantis targeted, frankly, and Chris Christie in a lot of ways. He was much more aggressive about criticizing Trump than Haley and DeSantis. But that’s the same pool of convincing voters that any challenger to the former president is going to need to pull to defeat him in a state like New Hampshire,” Kucinich concluded.

Watch the clip above via CNN.