President Biden and former President Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees for president in 2024, will face off against each other in a rare presidential election rematch this November. (Getty Images)
"Everything is just about the economy," said Westbrook, who now drives for Lyft to support his fixed retirement income. "I don’t really trust Donald Trump at all. I just think housing, food, my car, my insurance, every single piece of living has gone up."
The view that Americans are not better off today than they were four years ago is shared by others who were among the 14% of survey respondents who said they won't vote for Biden a second time, according to polls released Monday by The New York Times, Siena College and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The survey results and follow-up interviews reported in the Times on Friday suggest discontent over the economy and the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza, and a deterioration in support for Biden by younger, Black and Hispanic voters, "threaten to unravel the president's Democratic coalition."
Jaredd Johnson, a 25-year-old voter who works in marketing in Atlanta, told the Times he had hoped Biden would restore the country to a pre-pandemic normal, but doesn't think he has. Despite his reservations about Trump, he said he plans to vote for the presumptive Republican nominee in November.
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Amelia Earwood told The New York Times she thinks Trump is "a horrible human being." But she said, "I’m voting on his policies, and I think that he could straighten this country out, while Biden made a ginormous mess out of it." (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Fox News political analyst Gianno Caldwell said it's no surprise that Black voters like Westbrook and Sheffield are moving away from Biden and towards Trump.
"The pundits and analysts view the Black voters supporting Trump as an anomaly, and they are wrong," Caldwell said. "Many Black voters were browbeaten into voting for Biden in 2020 by the media and celebrity cultural figures like Charlemagne the God with promises and predictions of a presidency that would serve the Black community well, and Black folks now realize they have been bamboozled by the left and media."
"Considering their economic conditions under the Biden administration are now far worse than under Trump, many feel they have no choice but to support the man who actually got the job done and made many feel more financially secure," he added.
Other voters told the Times that persistent inflation — which clocked in at 3.4% in April, down from the 2022 high of 9% but still well above the Federal Reserve's target 2% rate — illegal immigration and Biden's decision to withhold an arms shipment to Israel demonstrate a need for big change in America.
"All of our core values are gone, gone, and I’m just not pleased at all," said Amelia Earwood, 47, a safety trainer at the U.S. Postal Service in Georgia.
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She told the Times she thinks Trump is "a horrible human being," but said, "I’m voting on his policies, and I think that he could straighten this country out, while Biden made a ginormous mess out of it."
The Trump and Biden campaigns did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Fox News Digital's Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
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