PA swing voter fears Trump will try to appoint Don Jr. as successor in 2028
Bloomberg is reporting that swing voters across the United States are telling focus groups that they fear former President Donald Trump will not willingly relinquish power should he win back the White House in 2024.
Seiji Carpenter, vice president at David Binder Research, and Sarah Longwell, the chief executive officer of Longwell Partners, both tell Bloomberg that fears of Trump not leaving office have been cropping up in recent focus groups they've conducted.
“We were talking to Latino men and Asian American-Pacific Islander women in battleground states,” Carpenter told Bloomberg. “And they went straight to the issue of, what if Trump won’t give up power?”
Longwell, meanwhile, similarly said fears of Trump refusing to leave are "showing up in our focus groups."
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In particular, one undecided Pennsylvania voter told one of Longwell's focus groups that Trump's efforts to install daughter-in-law Lara Trump at the Republican National Committee were giving him pause about what Trump might do when his term ends in 2028.
“I wouldn’t put it past him, now that he owns the RNC to say, ‘Don Jr. is going to do the next term, and he’ll get two. And then Barron will get two,'" the man said. "And we’ll just have some fake monarchy.”
While such fears of other presidents in the past have been dismissed as partisan hysteria, they have gained serious credence when it comes to Trump, who refused to concede his loss in the 2020 election, tried to order his Justice Department to declare the election "corrupt," asked Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to "find" votes needed to overturn his state's election results, pressured his vice president to unilaterally throw out the certified election results, and then incited a deadly riot at the Capitol building that delayed the certification of President Joe Biden's victory.