'Barf emoji,' 'Get us back on our feet,' - NYC, Florida size up looming Trump '24 run

Record ID: 1697470

  • Title: 'Barf emoji,' 'Get us back on our feet,' - NYC, Florida size up looming Trump '24 run
  • Date: 14th November 2022
  • Summary: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 11, 2022) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS PROFANITY*** WIDE OF TRAFFIC ON MANHATTAN'S UPPER WEST SIDE 72ND STREET SIGN EXTERIOR OF ANSONIA BUILDING "VOTED" STICKER ON AREA STREET POLE VARIOUS OF TRAFFIC / EXTERIOR OF GRAY'S PAPAYA HOT DOGS PRIDE FLAG SIGN IN WINDOW FOR "HOCHUL / DELGADO" FOR 2022 GUBERNATORIAL RACE EXTERIOR OF 72n
  • Embargoed: 28th November 2022 12:10
  • Keywords: 2024 election Donald Trump Florida Fort Lauderadale Trump '24 UWS Upper West Side
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  • Country: US
  • Topics: North America,Government/Politics,United States,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA001878611112022RP1
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  • Story Text:EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: SHOT 14 CONTAINS PROFANITIES
    Days before Donald Trump is expected to launch another White House run, voters made clear in interviews with Reuters that the prospect has stirred up emotions as strong as any Trump has elicited since arriving on the U.S. political scene.
    Former President Donald Trump has spent months teasing a 2024 presidential run and is expected to move forward Tuesday (November 15) even in the face of disappointing midterm results for the GOP.
    Interviews in the partisan strongholds of Florida and New York demonstrated the strong responses still caused by the 45th U.S. president.
    "The barf emoji," Virginia resident, Anne Reynolds, told Reuters while on a visit to New York about another Trump run. "He's an idiot. He's unqualified. He's mentally ill. What else do you need to know?"
    "As far as the Trump presidency, I think that he had America going back where we needed to as far as developing jobs, finding ways to make us America as a standard again and in all industries," said David Garrison, a Georgia resident on a visit to Florida. "I felt like he would be a good change to get us back on our feet."
    In New York, voters expressed concerns about the 76-year-old Republican's polarizing personality.
    "He was an incompetent person," said New Yorker, Anita. "He got lucky by becoming president four years ago. And it's outrageous that smart people are electing him, you know, to the office."
    It was clear to the voters that the Republican party's disappointing results in the midterms were unlikely to dissuade Trump.
    "The message of the midterms might have been that there's a kind of upper ceiling to the number of people who are willing to be Trump supporters," said New York consultant, Charlie Lasswell, while also saying he had no doubt the next Trump candidacy is "coming."
    For his part, Trump is again at war with his own party, angrily denouncing potential rivals, airing old grievances and acting more like the insurgent who stormed to victory six years ago than a former president.
    That strife could embolden a potential Republican primary challenger, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis chief among them should he decide to run, according to Republican voters.
    "DeSantis has done a great job, especially through COVID when there were lockdowns and there were some pretty extreme measures to protect people, really hurt business. But he was one of the only states that really didn't follow the norm," said Florida resident, Cory Mara.
    Others just expressed exhaustion at the idea of another season of Trump.
    "I would rather he didn't" run again, said Genady Maryash, a computer science professor in New York. "I'm tired of him."
    (Production by: Andrew Hofstetter, Maria Alejandra Cardona and Dan Fastenberg)
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