A Connecticut mother shared on Thursday why she voted for President Donald Trump in 2024 after previously supporting independent candidates in the 2016 and 2020 elections. During an appearance on journalist Mark Halperin’s 2WAY Tonight, Axios’ Trump White House reporter Marc Caputo asked a woman identified as Alex when she decided to back Trump over an independent candidate in 2024. She pointed to the treatment of children and parents under former President Joe Biden’s administration as her primary motivation.
“There’s a lot of reasons, but I would say the biggest reason was what was done to my children during the Biden years regarding masks and vaccines and coming after parents,” Alex said. “A lot of what was going on in the schools. And I basically wanted a return to the late ’90s … and Trump, to me, seems like a return to the late ’90s. I want inappropriate jokes. I want fun.”
Earlier during her appearance on “2WAY Tonight,” Alex expressed outrage at former Attorney General Merrick Garland, who issued a memo on Oct. 4, 2021 directing the FBI to “use its authority” in response to the “disturbing spike in harassment, intimidation, and threats of violence against school administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.” The memo followed a letter from the National School Board Association (NSBA) that requested the federal government get involved in the “immediate threat” of parents who spoke and protested at school board meetings. The NSBA claimed the incidents could be “the equivalent to a form of domestic terrorism and hate crimes.”
“To see that come from our Justice Department, attacking everyday Americans that were just trying to do right by their kids, was so all-encompassing as a parent you’ll never know … as a person who saw that and reacted to it, it was the government coming against their own people and attacking their own people for something I think is absolutely outrageous,” Alex said.
At the time, parents were at the forefront of opposition to controversial policies, including mask and vaccine mandates. On February 7, a previously hesitant Trump voter named Jackie on Mark Halperin’s The Morning Meeting expressed her enthusiasm for supporting Trump in 2024, citing her experience under Biden’s administration and admiration for Trump’s “perseverance.” She said: “I actually love him now. Like, it was, ‘I’m gonna hold my nose and vote for him.’ And after the last four years … I like everything about him.”
