Ashley Lopez

Things are not changing fast enough.

Whether it's Trump's fault or not, whether he doesn't believe his vote was a good idea or not doesn't matter.

He's ready to see things move in another direction economically.

Yeah.

So that's a question we ask.

And actually, compared to Pennsylvania, there were a few more people who said that they were definitely going to vote.

I think one of the focus groups, it was every single one of them said they were excited to vote.

Observing independent voters sort of talk about immigration is interesting because by and large, I have heard independent voters say, especially swing voters say, like,

Closing the border in general is something that they approve of, but it is this extra element of ICE and the killings we've been seeing and what's been going on in Minneapolis that has been obviously the big impetus for this change.

I think if, you know, Trump had just sort of stayed focused on the border, this would be a different conversation.

But it's all this extra stuff that's been going on that, from what I'm observing, is pushing a lot of independent voters.

One small thing on Latinos as well is that, I mean, obviously ICE tactics are part of this, but there is a compounding issue with a lot of Latino communities right now.

A lot of...

Like immigrants from different countries have lost their temporary protected status in the past several months.

And that has really made Latino pollsters have told me that has really frustrated a lot of Latino voters who feel like they did things the right way and they have legal status.

And that has, you know, just been one of the many things that has made these communities like really upset.

Obviously, someone with a temporary protected status wouldn't be voting like in the last election, for example.

But these are families that have mixed status a lot of the time.

They like someone in their family has temporary protected status and they're a voter because they were born here.

And so the assumption that a lot of Latino voters came in who voted for Donald Trump had for a long time was like this would not touch me personally.