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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCiting Trump, some Republican women to vote Democratic in Ohio election
REUTERS/ Tim Reid JULY 27, 2018 / 5:05 AM / UPDATED 2 HOURS AGO
DUBLIN, Ohio (Reuters) - Becky von Zastrow often votes Republican in her affluent central Ohio suburb - but her dissatisfaction with U.S. President Donald Trump has convinced her to back the Democrat in a special-election test for both parties next month.
Her change of heart, reinforced by Trumps handling of last weeks Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, could bode well for Democrat Danny OConnor, a 31-year-old local officeholder running for an Ohio congressional seat Republicans have held since 1982.
In interviews with a dozen women, mostly Republicans, in the Midwestern states 12th Congressional District, several said they would buck their voting habits to support the Democratic candidate on Aug. 7, citing Trump as a major factor. Others said they disapproved of the presidents behavior but had yet to make up their minds about the congressional contest.
For von Zastrow and several other women in the Ohio district, Trumps refusal at a July 16 news conference with Putin to criticize Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election affirmed their decisions.
Her change of heart, reinforced by Trumps handling of last weeks Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, could bode well for Democrat Danny OConnor, a 31-year-old local officeholder running for an Ohio congressional seat Republicans have held since 1982.
In interviews with a dozen women, mostly Republicans, in the Midwestern states 12th Congressional District, several said they would buck their voting habits to support the Democratic candidate on Aug. 7, citing Trump as a major factor. Others said they disapproved of the presidents behavior but had yet to make up their minds about the congressional contest.
For von Zastrow and several other women in the Ohio district, Trumps refusal at a July 16 news conference with Putin to criticize Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election affirmed their decisions.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-ohio/citing-trump-some-republican-women-to-vote-democratic-in-ohio-election-idUSKBN1KH13V
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Citing Trump, some Republican women to vote Democratic in Ohio election (Original Post)
workinclasszero
Jul 2018
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dalton99a
(81,073 posts)1. Good.
obnoxiousdrunk
(2,906 posts)2. I have heard this before.
Educated white suburban women will vote for Clinton.
nycbos
(6,033 posts)3. Thank you they gave us Trump.
Maybe now this Roe on the chopping block they have woken up and smelt the coffee.
NewJeffCT
(56,827 posts)4. they voted for Clinton in 2016
white women with college degrees voted Clinton 51-45 in 2016. (White men with college degrees voted Trump 54-42) White women without college degrees voted Trump 62-34.
https://qz.com/833003/election-2016-all-women-voted-overwhelmingly-for-clinton-except-the-white-ones/
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)5. Seems like a candidate meant for the district.
It's why I don't get too worked up over house members campaigning on the position that they will support someone other than Pelosi for speaker.
Here is the first campaign add O'Connor released.