I’ll be following this NYT article all day.
Dennis Rizzio, a 72-year-old upholsterer, was told Tuesday morning that he could not vote for Donald J. Trump because he was not registered as a Republican, which fed his suspicions that, as he said in an echo of his candidate, “It’s a rigged system.’’
Nevertheless, he planned to go to the Westchester County seat, White Plains, to straighten out the problem, then return to Chappaqua because he was determined to cast a vote for Mr. Trump.
“Very close to my heart is a very important topic — bringing jobs here instead of their going overseas,” he said. “The bought politicians, the established politicians can’t do it because they’re bought by the special interests.”
Mr. Rizzio, a father of three, recalled that in the 1990s he was working as a TV technician for a corporation in Texas, and one day suddenly found himself out a job because the company moved overseas.
“I know what it is like for a man to come home and have and tell his family, ‘I can’t provide for you anymore.’” Mr. Rizzio said.
I know what it’s like to tell a family that too and there’s no way in hell I’d think voting for Trump would make it less likely that future Americans would have to relay such devastating news to their families. Perhaps The Wall™ will physically stop companies from shipping jobs overseas or maybe astronomical tariffs will help.
But showing up a few minutes after him to vote at New Castle Town Hall — Chappaqua is a hamlet in New Castle — was a Clinton supporter, Laurie Matthews, 50, a lawyer. She said she found Mrs. Clinton, who she occasionally sees around town at Starbucks or a fine-foods shop, to be “very smart and good-hearted.”
Chappaqua, NY median household income: $213,750. New Castle NY, median household income: $159,691.
US Median household income: $53,046
I wonder what kind of coffee Bernie drinks.
“Some say she’s very cold, but in this environment she’s very warm,” Ms. Matthews said.
“I feel like she’s the better-qualified candidate based on her experience,” she said, adding that Bernie Sanders “is over his head on foreign policy.”
“I find Bernie to be a little too left and he hasn’t fleshed out some of his points,” she said. “I also don’t think he’s electable.”
Single payer health insurance. Closed tax loopholes for corporations and the uber-wealthy. Getting dark money out of politics. $15 minimum wage. Putting the shackles back on the banking industry. Improving the welfare of an entire nation. Juuuust a bit too far to the left.
Although Mr. Sanders has made the criticism a mantra, Ms. Matthews was not troubled by the large speaking fees Mrs. Clinton accepted from Wall Street firms. “I accept money for a job I do, and she was doing a job and got paid,” Ms. Matthews, a mother of two teenage girls, said.
Just curious. What was the job Clinton was doing at these speaking engagements?
In his short walk around Midtown, Mr. Sanders spoke with Michael Cantalupo, a frustrated supporter who said he was shut out of the process because he had missed the deadline to change his party affiliation to Democrat from Independent.
Mr. Cantalupo, who stopped the senator to explain his predicament, said he first tried to change his registration last May but that the Department of Motor Vehicles lost his paperwork. In December, he tried again, but by then it was too late to become eligible to vote in the Democratic primary.
“It shouldn’t be this hard,” Mr. Cantalupo, 21, said, standing alongside Mr. Sanders.
The senator frowned and criticized the voting system.
“Today, three million people in the state of New York who are Independents have lost their right to vote in the Democratic and Republican primaries,” Mr. Sanders said standing alongside Mr. Cantalupo. “That’s wrong. You’re paying for this election. It’s administered by the state. You have a right to vote. That’s a very unfortunate thing which I hope will change.”
Sorry Mr. Cantalupo, you missed your chances to get a pass to the Clubhouse.
Emerich Tauber, 69, a retired fishmonger, was dressed in black and stood with his hands folded behind his back. A registered Democrat, he seemed disinclined to support either candidate, Hillary Clinton or Senator Bernie Sanders.
“The old guy, surely not,” he said, unable to identify Mr. Sanders by name.
Though Democrats are unable to vote in the Republican primary, Mr. Tauber expressed his desire to vote for Donald J. Trump.
Old guy? Sanders is 74. Trump turns 70 in <2 months. Interesting line in the sand he draws.
“We need change,” Mr. Tauber said. “He’s crazy. But we need change. He can do it.”
We need unhinged crazy in the White House leading the most powerful nation on earth, got it.
Of the area he said that though many are registered Democrats, they more often side with Republicans, nationally, because of their faith.
“Morally we are Republican,” he said