During an appearance on CNN on Monday morning, conservative writer Jonah Goldberg pointed to the substantial number of voters who are not pleased with either President Joe Biden or Donald Trump as their choices in the November presidential election who could swing the election either way.
According to Goldberg, Donald Trump is not doing himself any favors lately with his antics and is, in fact, chasing those voters away.
Speaking with host Kate Bolduan, the columnist pointed to what pollsters are calling "double haters" which reportedly make up 19 percent of the electorate.
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Bolduan kicked off the conversation by asking about Trump's supposed outreach to moderates.
"There's, there's a weird irony here though, is that a big chunk of the Trump, existing Trump coalition, the one that turned out in primaries, were actually, particularly in southern states, former Democrats, right?" he told the CNN host. "He's won over that part of the FDR coalition that was the sort of working-class whites, you know, the sort of Dixiecratish whites. They're already part of the Trump coalition."
"So some of the people that he's talking to aren't the moderates, the middle, all that kind of stuff," he continued. "They're sort of the radicalized very online people that have been moving over anyway. I think this is all weird strategy at the end of the day. Every pollster you talk to who's honest about this stuff? This is going to boil down to what they're increasingly called the 'double haters,' people who dislike both of them."
"While Biden is not reassuring for a lot of people and a lot of people don't like him for legitimate reasons, when you compare Trump's approach, which is to make fun of Biden's stuttering, childhood stuttering and to be a jerk about it, that feels to me like it pushes more double-haters away than and I'm not sure it's going to be a winning strategy."
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