How many of your friends support Trump?

[definitelyO]

5+
My best friend's husband, another good friend's husband, and a lot of my uncles in Michigan.
My dad voted for Trump in 2016 - then a few months later admitted how wrong he was and how sorry he was. 

[eb777888]

In another universe where I'm friends/married to a Trump supporter, I don't see how everyday he does something shitty I wouldn't be like "what do you think about him NOW?? WHAT THE FUCK??"

The times I'm rarely around family that supports Trump, it's literally all I can think about. Since 2016.

[sugarbear1]

Oct 29, 2024 2:21:49 GMT -5 Beeps (WOT?*) said:

Oct 28, 2024 15:59:07 GMT -5 sugarbear1 said:

Zero.
I live in the echo-iest of echo chambers.

Well, I don't echo quite as much since we *did* elect a Constitutional Sheriff in 2016-ish up here north of y'all, but we replaced him last time (love her) and we've got a couple Republicans on our County council but they're moderate-ish.

Friends are zero. My friends consist of very actively political Democrats, folks who hold positions in the party and in our local/state government, folks who are active in organizations like No H8, Standing at Planned Parenthood, etc. I'm very selective about who I hang with if I'm not married to them or I didn't birth them.

Acquaintances and people around me, too many for my comfort. Makes me nervous for November 6.

My famiy otoh...birds of another feather. I'm the outlier in a family of "conservatives." My mom and mother-in-law are RABID Trumpers. It's insane. He serves no benefit to them except White Supremacy. His economic policies are crap that don't help them at all (government employees on pensions they wouldn't have had under Republican governance for his folks and my mom is limited income single white lady who wouldn't survive if I didn't send her money each month.) It's absolutely bonkers the blind devotion people have.

Hey! Good to see you back

[mrsukyankee]

1 or 2 family members will, unless they just decide to not vote. No close friends will (of if they are, they aren't talking about it to me and I just can't see it happening). A few old friends from high school (not currently friends) likely are as I grew up in a blue dot in a red area.

[wanderingback]

I guess I didn’t answer!

For me, 0. Probably not surprising. Definitely a deal breaker in a friend. No coming back from that!

The only person that I know personally that supported Trump (no clue who he is voting for this year) is my cousin’s husband. My cousin’s sister refused to see both of them for several years because of it and now she lives overseas so more of a moot point. I think I’ve seen him twice in the past 4 years at family events but I def highly judge him and my cousin too. Black people supporting Trump is an even lower low.

[wildrice]

Oct 29, 2024 10:03:03 GMT -5 eb777888 said:

In another universe where I'm friends/married to a Trump supporter, I don't see how everyday he does something shitty I wouldn't be like "what do you think about him NOW?? WHAT THE FUCK??"

The times I'm rarely around family that supports Trump, it's literally all I can think about. Since 2016.

Yes - my XH was a Republican and I have no idea if he would be a Trump person or not but I have definitely wondered. The last 8 years have been bad enough with a partner who shares my values, I cannot imagine how intolerable they would be if I was married to my ex. It's likely that would have been the end of us if things hadn't (thankfully) ended a few years prior to his first run.

[melmaria]

I can’t think of any close friends that do.

Immediate family members, mostly on my H’s side - yes.

[kellady]

Close friends - none.   Now I know why my H and I didn’t have many close friends, lol. 

Since 2016, I have stepped back from a lot of the gatherings we used to attend because I don’t want to socialize with anyone whose supports Trump, and these parties are all with many the same people anyway. They were more with people we “know” but weren’t close to anyway.  I miss nothing.  I checked five or more on the survey because of them. 

[jinkies]

I don't really have close friends anymore, but of my acquaintances-- groups of neighbors, parents from my kids' activities-- I would say that the breakdown is similar to the overall voter registration in my area, which is about 50/50. I have been surprised by a couple people who had seemed pretty normal up until now, but came out very vocally for Trump this year. Including one family who is super crazy over the top (I didn't really know them in 2020, so this was this new to me). I don't understand it.

[taratru]

Friends? None that I know of.

Acquaintances/coworkers? I can think of 3 or 4.

Family? Probably 80% of my dad's fam, but probably only half of them will vote.

[katfco]

None as far as I know. Former friends, people we used to go to church with, my late stepdad. Most of our friends are quite liberal.

[laterz]

A couple friends. Because bible and abortion.

I'm really struggling with this. I feel like i might have to do a Paulie in Goodfellas. "Now I gotta turn my back on you."

I hate this.

[krystee]

Close friends zero, acquaintances 2, and family enough that it makes me sick to my stomach.

[wanderingback]

I really wanna know about the 5+ people, yikes.

[carriebear822]

Oct 29, 2024 18:03:05 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

I really wanna know about the 5+ people, yikes.

I was one of those who picked 5+. I have my sister, her DH, my nephew, his wife, my childhood best friend and her husband. My husband has friends from way back that are the supporters of his, but we don't really talk or hang out with them anymore due to politics.

For my sister and BFF, I have pulled away from my BFF due to this and her views on COVID. I really haven't had a great relationship with my sister and her family due to drama back in 2010.

On the other hand, all my other immediate family are democrats and are supporting Harris/Walz.

[konapoppy]

Oct 29, 2024 18:03:05 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

I really wanna know about the 5+ people, yikes.

I’m assuming (hoping?) people conflated friends and family 😳

[Gato]

Friends: 0 (including FB, Insta, LinkedIn) friends)

Relatives: 2-3

People I know at all? Based on my city’s donor rate of 30-1 Harris to Trump, but I hang out in even more likely to be liberal spaces, maybe a dozen?

I guess you could say I’m in a bubble.😄

[wanderingback]

Oct 29, 2024 19:02:56 GMT -5 carriebear822 said:

Oct 29, 2024 18:03:05 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

I really wanna know about the 5+ people, yikes.

I was one of those who picked 5+. I have my sister, her DH, my nephew, his wife, my childhood best friend and her husband. My husband has friends from way back that are the supporters of his, but we don't really talk or hang out with them anymore due to politics.

For my sister and BFF, I have pulled away from my BFF due to this and her views on COVID. I really haven't had a great relationship with my sister and her family due to drama back in 2010.

On the other hand, all my other immediate family are democrats and are supporting Harris/Walz.

Well 4 of those people are family lol. I consider someone married to a family member family. That’s why the poll was specifically about friends. But thanks for answering

[lostrn]

Oct 29, 2024 19:48:16 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

Oct 29, 2024 19:02:56 GMT -5 carriebear822 said:

I was one of those who picked 5+. I have my sister, her DH, my nephew, his wife, my childhood best friend and her husband. My husband has friends from way back that are the supporters of his, but we don't really talk or hang out with them anymore due to politics.

For my sister and BFF, I have pulled away from my BFF due to this and her views on COVID. I really haven't had a great relationship with my sister and her family due to drama back in 2010.

On the other hand, all my other immediate family are democrats and are supporting Harris/Walz.

Well 4 of those people are family lol. I consider someone married to a family member family. That’s why the poll was specifically about friends. But thanks for answering

You did say we could define friend however we wanted to lol

[carriebear822]

Oct 29, 2024 19:48:16 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

Oct 29, 2024 19:02:56 GMT -5 carriebear822 said:

I was one of those who picked 5+. I have my sister, her DH, my nephew, his wife, my childhood best friend and her husband. My husband has friends from way back that are the supporters of his, but we don't really talk or hang out with them anymore due to politics.

For my sister and BFF, I have pulled away from my BFF due to this and her views on COVID. I really haven't had a great relationship with my sister and her family due to drama back in 2010.

On the other hand, all my other immediate family are democrats and are supporting Harris/Walz.

Well 4 of those people are family lol. I consider someone married to a family member family. That’s why the poll was specifically about friends. But thanks for answering

With that being said, I went back and changed my answer to 2.

[sent]

Oct 29, 2024 18:03:05 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

I really wanna know about the 5+ people, yikes.

I picked the 5+ because of the IRL colleagues. I was colleague-friends with these people at one point when we were younger. Back then (2008) we voted 50/50 Obama/McCain. There was some tension and side eyes leading up to the election, but afterwards life in America went on. We celebrated birthdays and graduations with each other and had lots of social fun never once thinking about our political beliefs. Now three elections later, we're settled in our lives and careers and spread out all over the country. We don't have to maintain social relationships if we don't want to. But chances are high that we still run into each other in-person at meetings/continuing ed courses and there's always some kind of social component to these things. You can probably manage to avoid people at these things if you make a very conscious effort to walk the other way if you see them heading to the coffee station at the same time as you. But you can't go the opposite route and go up to someone at a setting like that and say "how can you hate healthcare for women!" At the same time, they're probably not going to come up to you either and say "So you are ok with people just walking over the border?" And so we exist in this current sharply divided America.

[livinitup]

I have one old acquaintance that worked for the Republican Party when we were college kids and he always kept a loose affiliation with them for work - mostly marketing & communication work through government offices and contracts (I think). We text back and forth from time to time - about 2-3x/year. One time, he said something Trumpy and I was all “WHAT THE HELL? HAVE YOU GONE MAGA?? I FIGURED YOU KNEW HE’S A SCAMMER AND FRAUD. DO YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE THIS STUFF?” He didn’t answer me.

He’s from NY, Jewish, and his family fled Europe because of the Nazi occupation. So, it’s really confusing.

[mysteriouswife]

Zero people I call friends. A whole hell of a lot of my Dad’s side and H’s family. People we see regularly. We have cut the hardcore ones off. Now it’s to the morons who think Trump will save them in taxes. Yes, Uncle John who makes less than 50k, Harris is going to tax you to death. 🙄

[shauni27]

Oct 29, 2024 16:58:35 GMT -5 laterz said:

A couple friends. Because bible and abortion.

I'm really struggling with this. I feel like i might have to do a Paulie in Goodfellas. "Now I gotta turn my back on you."

I hate this.

I did this round 1 after Sandy Hook when pro gun "friends" posted that we could never  take their guns, etc., then again in 2016.

Oct 29, 2024 18:03:05 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

I really wanna know about the 5+ people, yikes.

I clearly voted wrong, lol. I KNOW 5 people who will vote for Trump, but they are not friends. More IRL acquaintances. It was the loose definition of "friends" that threw me! lol.

[somersault72]

I have 1 friend that I've been friends with for YEARS (since we were 5) and I think she voted for him in 2016. No idea who she's voting for this time, we don't talk in person often and never about politics.

Most of my non physician co-workers/former co-workers (but but but my grocery bills . . .). Most of my family (minus my mom, her brother and his wife). I don't have siblings, but all my cousins and most of their kids who are voting age will vote for Trump. My dad says he's not voting for him, but he won't vote for Harris either (he swears he didn't vote for Trump in 2016 either). He's what I like to call a faux-publican. He says he's a Republican (liberal is a dirty word), but his actual views align more with a Democrat. At minimum he should be an Independent. It sucks.

[chickadee77]

I already answered, but unfortunately my entire family are Trumpers because Jesus. Somehow. And these are educated, otherwise intelligent people. I don't get it, at all.

I have a friend whose H turned into an R during tfg's administration. (I don't know him at all, so don'tconsider him a friend.) She struggles, hard, and politics are strictly verboten in their house.

[somersault72]

Oct 29, 2024 22:36:49 GMT -5 mysteriouswife said:

Zero people I call friends. A whole hell of a lot of my Dad’s side and H’s family. People we see regularly. We have cut the hardcore ones off. Now it’s to the morons who think Trump will save them in taxes. Yes, Uncle John who makes less than 50k, Harris is going to tax you to death. 🙄

The people I know it's groceries, gas etc. That's why they want Trump to win. Because the price of all those things is magically going to drop if he wins. SMH.

[heygrey]

I have one friend I put on mute this morning. She has said several times that she is voting for Harris, but she’s taking this middle of the road “I can see both sides” and “we’re not that different” and “we’re all trying to make the choice that is best for us” stance on social media.

No ma’am. I understand that lots of people voting for Dump don’t agree 100% with his “policies”, but any vote for him gives him the power to be a vile human being. I cannot Both Sides this, and I am not going to listen to her drone on in stories to her 80 followers for the next week.

[wanderingback]

Oct 30, 2024 7:13:04 GMT -5 shauni27 said:

Oct 29, 2024 16:58:35 GMT -5 laterz said:

A couple friends. Because bible and abortion.

I'm really struggling with this. I feel like i might have to do a Paulie in Goodfellas. "Now I gotta turn my back on you."

I hate this.

I did this round 1 after Sandy Hook when pro gun "friends" posted that we could never  take their guns, etc., then again in 2016.

Oct 29, 2024 18:03:05 GMT -5 wanderingback said:

I really wanna know about the 5+ people, yikes.

I clearly voted wrong, lol. I KNOW 5 people who will vote for Trump, but they are not friends. More IRL acquaintances. It was the loose definition of "friends" that threw me! lol.

Haha. I guess when I meant define friends I meant more like is this someone you intentionally see every week vs someone you only catch up with once a year or less. I have plenty of friends that fall across that spectrum. Some people might not consider someone they only see once a year a friend.
I guess I should’ve said a friend is someone that’s not a family
Member, you initiate spending time together and enjoy spending time together. There’s the definition

[Scout'sHonor]

Close friends: 0 We got rid of one after Jan 6th when he equated the fear we had seeing the insurrection to how he (a white dude) felt during the BLM protests. My ex BFF I only talk to twice a year now on our birthdays, she only votes the way her cult church and husband tells her to.
Family: 0 of our immediate family on both mine and H's side. My sis is R, but voted for Clinton and Biden. A few extended family are trumpers, but we keep them at a distance.