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‘Outrage’ That Once Fueled Dem Voters Is Slowly Fading As Another Trump Election Looms

As the 2024 election approaches, liberal voters are expressing fatigue with continued resistance to former President Donald Trump, The New York Times reported Monday.

The anger prompted voters to vote against President Trump in the 2020 presidential election and against the Republican Party in the 2022 midterm elections. according to The NYT spoke to Democrats. However, this enthusiasm has since diminished as the effort required to maintain it has dried up in these voters. (Related article: 'Donald Trump is not Adolf Hitler': Bill Maher accuses media of overhyping the 2024 election)

“Some people are burnt out from Outrage,” Rebecca Lee Funk, founder of the progressive activist group Outrage, told the NYT. “People are tired. I think in the last election we were so hell-bent on getting Trump out of office that people were willing to rally around that singular call to action. And this election It feels different than before.”

President Joe Biden is trying to rally anti-Trump votes by portraying the former president as an existential threat to democracy, but so far that message has struggled to energize Democratic voters, according to the New York Times. It is said that there is.

RealClearPolitics (RCP) had Trump leading Biden by 4.3 points. average In late January, he had the largest lead of the term against the president.he never guided Biden in the RCP average during the 2020 election.

“The whole attitude toward the presidential election is based on exhaustion,” Republican pollster Whit Ayers told the NYT. “When you have two people who are opposed by 70 percent of Americans who want a different choice, it creates frustration, anxiety, and discouragement.”

According to the NYT, Americans across party lines are concerned about Biden's age, and some Democrats remain angry at Trump, as the sentiment has been going on for the better part of a decade at this point. It is said that it has not been completed.

Among American adults, 86% think Biden is “too old” for the 2024 election, compared to 62% who say the same about President Trump (ABC News /Ipsos) investigation I found it recently.

“We're kind of out of the woods,” Shannon Caber, a Pittsburgh security guard and Democrat, told the NYT. She described the anticipated rematch between Trump and Biden as a “dumpster fire,” adding: “It's definitely crisis fatigue.”

“I think the sense of urgency that we felt during the 2020 election is still there, at least for Democrats in the sense that no one wants Trump to be president, but it's exhausting,” she said. He told the NYT.

Nearly 40% of Democrats chose “fatigue” as their feeling about the 2024 election, compared to 26% of Republicans. according to To the September Yahoo News/YouGov poll.

The border crisis, war between Ukraine and Russia, and war between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas continue during President Biden's term.

“We've been dealing with so many emergencies over the last few years: national emergencies, perceived emergencies, real emergencies. I feel like that's no longer a strong motivator for me. Dower, an anti-Trump Los Angeles voter, said. he told the NYT. “Many of us want something more positive to motivate us. It's not just, 'If you don't do this, this bad thing will happen.'”

More than 85% of Republicans and conservatives said they were “very/very likely” to vote in the 2024 election, compared to 74% of Democrats and liberals. according to In a recent CNN poll.

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