South Carolina voters explained in a recent interview the reasons they intend to vote for former President Donald Trump this November instead of President Joe Biden.
The voters were discussing the presidential election in an interview that aired on Friday, during which they were asked if they knew of anyone who was planning to vote for Trump or considering the possibility of voting for him. Kinard Givens, one of the voters being interviewed, said yes, noting that he has friends who felt more secure financially with Trump as president than Biden.
“They’re like, ‘well, we’re broke with Biden. We weren’t with Trump,’” Givens told MSNBC. “And that’s kind of the only thing that I’m hearing over and over again.”
The statement of South Carolina voters favoring Trump comes as the 2024 presidential election could very well be a rematch between Trump and Biden, as Biden recently won the state’s Democratic Party primary on Saturday. Neither Biden nor Trump has won their party’s nomination, but they appear likely to do so, with Trump polling ahead of former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley ahead of the Republican primary.
A recent poll showed Trump having a 22-point lead over Biden when recipients were asked which candidate would better handle the economy, with 55% saying Trump and 33% saying Biden, according to the poll conducted from Jan. 26-30.
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Biden won the Democratic Party’s South Carolina primary by securing 96% of the vote, besting his opponents, author Marianne Williamson and Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), by a wide margin. In his victory speech, the president thanked voters for setting him “on the path to winning the presidency again — and making Donald Trump a loser — again.”
The president’s victory, however, was tainted by the fact that overall turnout for Saturday’s primary was incredibly low at only 4%. South Carolina had 3,226,353 registered voters ahead of the primary, but only 131,286 voted.
