Chapter 5. The Undecided Voter.

To be honest, when I first met Violet, I thought she was an all-hands-on-deck Democrat. She was at a progressive church with her teenage daughter and I just assumed. I wasn’t completely wrong. She is a Democrat but she is an undecided one, and, she might vote for Donald Trump. She cites the economy.

There is a lot Violet doesn’t like about Trump. She doesn’t like his character, nor the way he behaves. She doesn’t like his position on LGBT rights and she certainly doesn’t like his position on a woman’s right to choose. She doesn’t want to go back. But. The last four years have been difficult financially for her and for her clients. She says that she is “torn.”

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