(TownHall) In the final week of the midterm election cycle, voters are making their final decisions about who they’ll be voting for when they get into the voting booth next Tuesday. With so many tight races in battleground states — and even some typically deep-blue states and districts — the number of “undecided” voters in final polls is dwindling, and many are saying themselves that they are breaking for the GOP to vote for a Republican candidate for the first time in their lives.
In a Twitter thread and post on Speaking Wrong At The Right Time, Adam Coleman explains why he’s one of those people voting Republican for the first time.
On Sunday, for the first time in my life, I voted Republican and I have a litany of reasons why.
***Thread / Article on last Tweet***
— Adam B. Coleman, President of Aintblackistan (@wrong_speak) November 1, 2022
Coleman explains that he’s not a Republican, but an independent who was a “vote blue no matter who” kind of moderate Democrat years ago.” Until now. “I don’t recognize that Democrat party anymore,” Coleman writes among his many reasons for voting GOP this time around. “The party I used to support stood for liberal values like free speech & now pushes harder and harder for censorship,” he adds before explaining “I will continue to vote Republican until every pro-lockdown Democrat is out of office” and “will continue to vote Republican until every pro-perversion Democrat is out of office.”
And Coleman isn’t alone. Fellow Democrat voters chimed in on his thread to echo criticism of Democrats’ radical leftward lurch and say they, too, would be voting GOP for the first time this year.
This entire thread is exactly why I’m voting republican today for the first time. The Democratic Party I used to support has completely lost their minds. https://t.co/Rn0Kr1CbsE
— Farmer Carol (@caaarrolll) November 1, 2022
Another Twitter user, Allison, posted that she’d be voting Republican for the first time and explained that what Democrat leaders did in Oregon made her “see the light” with additional credit to Thomas Sowell.
I also read Thomas Sowell. Thomas Sowell blew my brain open.
I can never go back to their hypocrisy. So here I am. Not perfect, still learning. I’m open minded and curious and ready to learn more.
— Allison (@TheOGAllison) October 30, 2022
Allison was, notably, not the only Oregonian to be fed up with Democrat leadership to the point of jumping to vote for Republicans.
Thanks for the inspiration to vote for a Republican for the first time! pic.twitter.com/1g7wdS8aOK
— Gigi (@Gidgette_gal) October 24, 2022
A recent story published on Common Sense dug into what’s going on with Oregon politics and why some voters are ready to vote GOP for the first time. Journalist Leighton Woodhouse went and talked with the lifelong Democrats who are bailing on their party this November to find out why.
One resident Woodhouse spoke to, social worker Diana Sapera, explained how “there are times [her kids] want to go to Portland and check out shops. Now, I don’t feel comfortable doing that. My kids are scared, seeing grown adults yelling, hitting things, throwing things. They see needles and are like, ‘What is that?’” she said. The lifelong Democrat told Woodhouse that she cast her mail-in ballot for Republican gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan.
