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71 percent of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts: Poll

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Summary

A new poll found that 71% of Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts, while 82% of all voters reject them. Additionally, 60% of Trump voters said cutting food and nutrition programs is unacceptable.

Medicaid has become a key issue as House Republicans push for up to $2 trillion in budget cuts to advance Trump’s legislative agenda.

Their resolution directs the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find at least $880 billion in cuts.

This raises concerns that Medicaid, which covers 70 million people—mostly low-income and children—could be targeted despite GOP leaders downplaying benefit reductions.

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Why did they vote for them?
- because the system they exist in keeps them in the dark, and is programming them to be fanatically terrified of being woken up
  
  Exactly
  Most rural "middle class" voters that fuel Red states are people who've been failed by the education system in one way or another, and distrust authority because of it. But they lack the media literacy to make distrust of authority positive. Instead, they are easily manipulated by crucial social figureheads.
  
  Woken up? Are you talking about the woke mind virus, you dirty infected communist?
  
  If they choose ignorance, that is on them.
  
  Well said.
  
  Nail on the head answer.
- If you really want to stop Trump from speed running a fascist takeover, you need to accept that this question isn't helpful.
  The question to ask is, "How can we bring these people over to our side?"
  They're primed and ready. They voted for things to get better (yes, that vote was stupid and ignorant and probably quite bigoted) and instead things are getting worse. Sieze this opportunity. Don't turn these people away when you could be turning them to the cause.
  
  No, that's why the dems lost in Nov. Fuck these people, get more people voting and stop chasing the right.
  
  These people aren't going to listen to Liberals who they all paint as radical communists. They see Liberals as even worse.
  Change for them is going to have to come from conservative voices who want to take back their party with a new tea party type movement and replacing magats.
  
  they voted for a culture war and bigotry, not realized they were being brainwashed by the same billionaires telling them otherwise.
- He hates the same people they hate, and they're willing to get hurt as long as those people are, too.
  
  "He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting" said dumbfuck malignant Trump voter the last time around before doing the exact same thing again. They for sure care about pain, but they love the pain of others more than they'll ever remember who caused their own.
  
  maybe, i'm not sure. but those stats up there suggest maybe they are not willing to sacrifice themselves after all. i hope we can help them understand that society doesn't have to be a zero-sum game, which is what i think many of them have believed.
- Because they live in lala land. They will do anything but blame themselves.
  My brother is almost 40. Severely obeses. Unemployed. And on assistance. He loves Trump and Musk. Every time they do something to fuck someone over? He goes ape shit like it's the best thing in the world. He's so happy. Because he doesn't understand that he's literally in the demographic that they refer to as worthless. He's the sponge on benefits that they hate and he literally cannot recognize or reconcile that fact....
  It's so fucking wild to witness.
  
  i bet hes on type 2 diabetes medication, like insulin, and HBP meds, and high cholesterol meds,.
- Because they have shit for brains and do not think for themselves, they just do what they are told
  
  Sin is not a sufficient explanation for human behavior.
- Well, when Trump was speaking to them about how much he was going to hurt others, they heard that.
  But when Trump was talking to the others about how much he was going to hurt them, they didn't hear that.
  Trump told everybody what they wanted to hear. None of them heard what he was really saying.
- Everytime I see one of these posts I scream to myself "What did they think they were getting?!" We knew who Trump was and what he was going to do.
- Your knowledge base isn’t their knowledge base.
  They’re experiencing the same effect we do here on Lemmy or over on Reddit. Silo-ing. Echo chambering.
  I’ve tried sharing links with my people. The response is often “I’m not reading that fake shit.”
  Your knowledge base isn’t their knowledge base. Breaking those walls is a key component of the fix for this.
  ETA: No big gotcha in this cast it’s just basic info. The guy who runs it isn’t formerly trained, just keen on cognitive science. He started out mid 2010s with casts that could do well in a cog sci class, like the next incarnation of Tom Gillovich’s How We Know What Isn’t So. Great stuff. Then he lost himself in philosophical psych for a bit. Now he does pointed research topics with interviews.
  Anyway, this may be what you’re looking for:
  https://youarenotsosmart.com/2025/02/20/yanss-307-why-resistance-to-true-news-that-you-would-rather-not-believe-can-be-stronger-than-susceptibility-to-fake-news-that-you-wish-was-true/
  
  i heard reddit have been very aggressive in banning linked comments now. in any case, either they say they arnt reading a fake "source", or they keep asking for a source .
- 100 percent of Trump voters are morons
- probably the boomers on medicare that cant afford INSURANCE OTHERWISE. and additionally for low income who are on TYPE 2 diabetes medications.
- Because the only other option kept saying things were fine...
  In 2020, there was a different candidate who said things were fine, he lost...
  In 2016, a different candidate said things were fine, she lost...
  There's a trend there. Life sucks for a lot of Americans, and it's sucked for a long time. But we still only have two options, so it's just going to flip between the parties every four years.
  Incumbent says everything is great, and loses.
  You can break a lot of shit in four years, more than someone can fix in four years. So overall shit will keep getting worse, unless we can actually run a candidate who can make progress in four years, then run for re-election and openly admit that shit is still fucked and it's gonna take a while to fix it.
  Which shouldn't be such a huge ask...
And the same idiots would vote for him again in a heartbeat.
If you don't want Medicaid cuts, you should not vote for any Republican, ever.
- But Democrats want trans people to exist! Don't you know how painful that is? Trans people out there, just living their lives on their own terms! /s
Wow what a bunch of dumbfucks then. Yeah vote for the gold plated guy.
- It's because they know billionaires have their best interests in mind.
- I would not be surprised to find out that Donald Trump is so out of touch with a common person that he thinks the healthcare.gov market place is where people sell their extra organs.
Oh ye wanna know something funny.
When I was a kid, my parents would tell me, that "These White People don't want you here" (for context: I was born in Mainland China)
Now they eat their rightwing propaganda stright from Wechat and constantly blame democrats for the "migrant crisis", something like: "They are building shelters for illegal immigrants in NYC", bruh did they just forget WE ARE IMMIGRANTS (we are legal immigrants, but fascists don't distinguish).
Who could possibly have seen that coming?
Republican voters are mismatched with their representatives, but never seem to care.
Here in Wisconsin, a small but definite majority of Republican voters are in favor of legalized THC, and the issue is popular overall. The Republican congress refuses to even consider it.
At the federal level, look at what Republicans in congress have done about gun control. Oh, yes, they've stopped things like universal background checks, but their voters would also like things such as removing silencers from the NFA list (which doesn't exactly ban them, but makes it inconvenient and expensive) or repealing the Hughes Amendment (ban on all new registrations of automatic firearms since 1986; existing ones were grandfathered in). Connecting to the issue above, there's also broad support for removing the drug question off the ATF background check form 4473 for buying a gun, which the ATF insists you must say "yes" to and have the sale denied if you use THC, even in legalized states.
There's been bills submitted for some of this, but they aren't going anywhere. I think they're waiting on the courts to strike down much of this for them, but congress could just do it.
Bigger point is that Republicans don't do things for their voters. GOP voters also seem uninterested in holding their own representatives to account. As long as their representatives are hurting the right people, their voters don't care.
This just in, 71% of people who voted for leopards eating their face are in fact against having leopards eat their face.
More at 11.
If you goof around near the edge of a cliff, don't be upset when you fall off.
"Trump said he wouldn't..."
He's a liar. Republicans aren't squeamish on cutting anything. He's a Republican and a liar. Do the fucking math idiots.
- He also said he would. Numerous times
Ha, stupid fucks.
You’ll get these cuts and you’ll like it, you’ll like the fucking taste of these golf cleats we jam in your dip-filled mouths, and you’ll believe us when we blame the fentanyl-smuggling Mexicans again and again ya rubes
News of any Medicaid cuts have to be amplified to the voters who never thought they would have to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy including musk and trump and his billionaire backers who authored this theft.
Voters maybe. 0% congressmen.
Also its 79 Million people if you include CHIP.
And 100% of Pedonald voters are idiots
Yeah.. cuz it effects them directly lol. Idk how many faces those leopards can eat cuz they must be getting full
- These cats get their diabeetus medical supplies from Liberty Medical. They can eat all day!
They only voted for the racism and bigotry.
71% are about to be disappointed, but people who rely on gov funding to treat life threatening chronic conditions are about to be dead…including kids. Cause thats what CHIP is, its medicaid for kids.
- no more nursing care, or community senior center care for boomers, which is probably the most if not all of the medicare cost of (what the govt gives the recipient for the convalescent care"). one of my grandparents was on medicare before they passed during covid, it took almost all the allowance of what the govt gave her to, to the community center for her permanent care, and it
Lol k

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