Kellerton, Iowa resident Shanen Ebersole on CNN on January 19, 2026 (Image: Screengrab via CNN / YouTube)
As President Donald Trump prepares to enter year two of his second term, many of the same voters who elected him to the White House in 2024 are now entertaining the idea of voting for Democrats in this fall's midterm elections.
In a Monday segment, CNN correspondent John King reported that in Iowa – where voters will be electing a governor, a U.S. senator and all four members of its U.S. House of Representatives delegation this fall – some Trump 2024 voters have "exhaustion" with the current administration. Shanen Ebersole, who is a cattle rancher in Kellerton, Iowa, told King that she was considering voting for Democrats in the midterms, primarily due to Trump's latest fixation on claiming Greenland for the United States.
"I don't agree with that in any way, shape or form," Ebersole said. When King asked if that was what she voted for, she qiickly said "no."
"I think that you have to vote for the person that best meets your goals," Ebersole said, telling King that she felt Congress was too fixated on "money and power."
After the segment aired, King told CNN host Pamela Brown that he has spoken with Trump voters in swing states like Iowa and Pennsylvania in battleground Congressional districts who are become increasingly frustrated with the administration. CNN correspondent Jeff Zeleny — who recently filed a report from rural Georgia — said he had encountered similar sentiment among Trump voters in the Peach State.
"There is a sense of exhaustion. There's no doubt among the true believers. They love it. But the sense of exhaustion is palpable," he said. "... The trade policy has been devastating to so many, but cost and affordability is one thing that comes up again and again. So look, the bottom line here is that people are going to vote their own pocketbooks. And things just simply have not gotten better."
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