Podcast host Mark Halperin received an avalanche of responses after sharing an email from a steadfast Democrat who decided to switch parties following President Donald Trump’s address to Congress. He addressed the uproar during his “2Way Tonight” program, stating, “I recommend you read it. It doesn’t represent every Democrat, but there’s a reason Donald Trump did better, like, in every county in America in 2024 than he did in 2020.” The email highlighted a breaking point for the viewer after witnessing the leftist lawmakers’ demeanor during Trump’s speech.
The viewer, identified as a lifelong Democrat, wrote that she watched with disbelief as her fellow Democrats appeared stone-faced and appalled while Trump honored families, including that of Laken Riley and a young boy with cancer. This poignant moment triggered her decision to abandon the Democratic Party. She wrote, “I’m switching parties. It’s been coming for awhile, but that was the moment for me.”
With a deeply personal tone, she explained that her family had been affected by assault and cancer, making the Democrats’ indifference astonishing to her. “I have not been able to come to terms with what I witnessed from Democrats last night. It was surreal. It was like an episode of Scooby Doo where they pull off the masks and show you who the villains are,” she lamented.
Plenty of Democrats are steadfast in their defense of the conduct of their party’s members of Congress in the chamber last night during Donald Trump’s speech, mostly justifying what was done in protest by pointing to the president’s own conduct and policies.
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Expressing her profound disappointment, the woman recounted the unsettling comments made by Nicole Wallace on MSNBC, following Trump’s tribute to Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel, a 13-year-old cancer survivor. “When I heard Nicole Wallace’s heinous remark I said to my husband ‘who are these people?!’ They don’t represent me anymore, or who I am.”
Despite her personal dislike of Trump, she admitted supporting some of his policies and finding little to support within the Democrats’ recent agendas. “I can’t think of much I support that the Democrats have been doing for a long time, and frankly I don’t even know what they stand for now except the right to choose (which is no longer enough) and men having the right to invade what were once my personal spaces,” she confessed. “I’m flabbergasted at myself but it feels like a relief to admit all of this. I can’t say I’m MAGA… but I know now after last night I am no longer a Democrat.”
Mark Halperin underscored his viewer’s sentiments, noting, “There’s a reason why [Trump] won, for the first time, the popular vote, because the Democratic Party on vivid display last night, in sharp relief last night, has done things on certain issues where they think, because they agree with each other, that they have the right position and the majority position, and they don’t, on a lot of these issues.”
A CBS/YouGov poll conducted post-Trump’s speech reported a 76 percent approval rating, underscoring the impact Trump’s address had on swaying public opinion.