This is a wild ride of an article on why people are voting for which candidate:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources...e-be676cabd12b
1. A female and black nurse voting for Stein because of the Gaza situation.
2. An veteran married to a woman whose family are undocumented immigrants because he liked trumps "toughness" has since changed his mind
3. Anti-vaxxers voting for Trump. "There’s no way my vote could be swayed away from Trump,"
4. Former Republicans (largely christian-conservatives) who becamse one-issue voters after their children were involved in a school shooting where their kids survived but three classmates died.
5. A gay Evangelical Christian who voted for Trump "begrudgingly in 2020" and was going to vote for Harris this time until she said something at a rally that he found to be hostile to Christians. He will not be voting at all.
6. A marine who hates trump, but is a baptist (as Harris claims to be) and finds her support for abortion to be disingenuous. He's voting for Trump because "because for all of his faults, you can believe him"
7. A former conservative woman in kentucky voting on abortion issues and womens' rights.
Only one person mentioned the economy - the middle-aged, white anti-vaxxer.
Religion still has a huge hold on many in the US, and it comes up a lot in these personal accounts of voting records. Many Trump supporters that arent full MAGA try to justify it with, conservative = religion and vice versa. They hide it with things like "trust" "toughness" "straight shooter" etc.
For Democrats, the two biggest ones were womens' rights and gun control issues. The economy wasn't mentioned.