The Trump voters in swing states who are returning to the fold

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

78% : "Trump has a business background and he's a great negotiator.
67% : While she says DeSantis did a "great job" running Florida, where he came out against many COVID restrictions, she doesn't think he is worthy of unseating Trump.
60% : "Trump introduced common-sense policies that changed the attraction for all of these people coming into the country.
57% : These conflicts can be resolved through negotiation, and Trump is the right man at the right time.
55% : He said they are soaking up government resources that could be better used somewhere else.
54% : Trump currently leads Democratic President Joe Biden in several swing state general election polls, suggesting he will be highly competitive in a likely re-match next November.
53% : " Yet Lipp - who sold his fiber-optic cable business in 2014 and lives in an 8-bedroom, 12-bathroom mansion in Las Vegas - is today all in for Trump.
49% : MEGAN CHUDEREWICZ-ADAMS, SALES MANAGER, PENNSYLVANIA Megan Chuderewicz-Adams, 43, had been a staunch Trump supporter when COVID-19 hit and school shutdowns caused her to question whether he was deferring too much to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease official who became the face of America's pandemic response under Trump.
49% : "I think we suffered more in Pennsylvania than we would have living in another state," said Chuderewicz-Adams, a sales and marketing manager for a property developer.
48% : Ruiz praised policies introduced by Trump when he was president including building some new sections of border wall, and keeping asylum seekers in Mexico.
47% : "That gives the green light to every tyrant at all levels of government to do the same thing to anybody," Ruiz said, echoing the words of Trump in campaign speeches.
46% : As voting in the Republican nomination contest kicks off in the Iowa caucuses on Jan. 15, four now see Trump as their party's best hope to defeat Biden in November.
45% : Johnson likes Trump's tough stance on migration, and believes Trump will slow the crossings and deport as many migrants as feasibly possible.
44% : "Early on, I thought Trump's had his four years, and there's other candidates like DeSantis emerging," Ruiz said from his office in a business park on the outskirts of Tucson.
43% : She campaigned on "parental choice" and against "indoctrination," part of a wave of conservative women who sought school board seats to contest mask and vaccine mandates and to curtail the instruction of sexuality and racial identity in public schools.
41% : "The Black community can really sympathize with what Trump is going through because this is (our)history," said Moore, 64, who lives outside Atlanta.
38% : The Trump campaign has dismissed criticism of the former president's language as "nonsensical, arguing that similar language was prevalent in books, news articles and on TV. MARK LIPP, BUSINESS CONSULTANT, NEVADA A year ago Mark Lipp, 68, knew who he wanted to vote for in the Republican presidential primaries: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, "because there was so much commotion around the name Trump.
37% : As chair of the Georgia Black Republican Council, Moore says she is required to stay neutral in the primary but would happily vote for Trump if he is the nominee.
36% : Moore said Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who brought the charges against Trump in Georgia, is overstepping her jurisdiction in prosecuting a federal election matter.
35% : By Tim Reid, Nathan Layne and James Oliphant Jan 13 (Reuters) - Donald Trump begins 2024 as the clear frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination despite facing scores of criminal charges, a dynamic that would doom most other candidates and has confounded his political opponents.
35% : It really concerned me," Lipp said. Lipp, an observant Jew who grew up in the Bronx and who has an Israeli wife, said that as 2023 progressed he came to see Trump as the only presidential candidate capable of dealing with Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and growing friction with China.
34% : Moore views the federal prosecution of Trump for election subversion differently, saying she would accept a verdict if the evidence was overwhelming and the trial conducted fairly.
33% : Although all five Republicans voted for Trump in 2016 and 2020, three began 2023 open to other Republican candidates, including two who said they initially planned to vote for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.
33% : Lipp says his return to Trump began with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
31% : Chuderewicz-Adams likes that Trump speaks without a filter, dismissing the uproar over his "poisoning the blood" comments as alarmist.
31% : Like many of Trump's supporters, Johnson said he wishes Trump would tone down his rhetoric, but he's not ready to abandon him for DeSantis, whom he also admires.
30% : The Biden administration has denied any involvement in pursuing cases against Trump.
28% : But ultimately Chuderewicz-Adams, the married mother of a five-year-old son in a Pittsburgh suburb, decided the blame for what she viewed as overly restrictive COVID policies shouldn't lie with Trump, but with her state's governor.
24% : Then two issues rallied Ruiz behind Trump again.
23% : " The second issue that swung Ruiz back behind Trump was the multiple criminal charges against him.
18% : Ruiz likened the indictments to Biden and the Democrats using "banana republic" tactics against Trump.
16% : All said they saw Trump as a strong leader and none considered him racist, despite past comments decrying Haiti and some African nations as "shithole" countries which stirred widespread criticism and recent accusations that migrants were "poisoning the blood" of America, language used by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler about Jewish people.
13% : " Johnson can't foresee any way Trump could legitimately lose again to Biden.

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