'Crazed right now': AZ one-time Trump voters say he has 'a lot of people turning on him'

29 April

President Donald Trump in the White House East Room on March 20, 2025 (The White House/Flickr)

Once a deep red state closely identified with conservative GOP Sens. Barry Goldwater and John McCain, Arizona is now a swing state with a Democratic governor (Katie Hobbs), two Democratic senators (liberal Ruben Gallego and the more centrist Mark Kelly) and a Democratic state attorney general (Kris Mayes).

But in 2024's presidential election, Democrats were disappointed when Donald Trump carried Arizona by roughly 5 percent. The fact that Republican Trump and Democrat Gallego both won statewide in Arizona last year shows how much of a swing state it has become.

Inflation played a key role in Trump's victory in Arizona in 2024. But in a report aired on Tuesday morning, April 29, CNN took a look at Arizona voters who, three months into his second policy, are worried about his economic policies — including tariffs.

One of the 2024 Trump voters CNN interviewed was Tucson business owner Tamara Varga, who owns a food truck and a restaurant.

Varga told CNN, "I'm worried about Medicaid and Medicare and Social Security. He did say that he wasn't going to cut them, that he was just going to find the waste. And I really hope that he sticks to that…. It's important because we need to take care of our people with disabilities and our elderly and those that depend on it, and they can't survive as it is right now."

Varga is a lifelong Republican, but according to CNN, she is open to voting Democratic if inflation persists or becomes worse.

Varga told CNN, "The items that we put in our gift baskets have gone up….. I'll give (Trump) some time, and I'm hopeful. But, you know, I think that if he doesn't come through, he's going to have a lot of people turning on him."

Another Arizona resident CNN interviewed, U.S. Air Force veteran Melissa Cordero, voted for Trump in 2016 but now deeply regrets that vote.

Wearing a Vets Against Trump t-shirt, Cordero told CNN, "He's like crazed right now. I'm constantly going, 'Can he do that?' I'm angry because the communities that I care the most about are being attacked: the LGBTQ community, the trans community. And what's really got me angry is immigration and what's happening to deported veterans."

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