Voters across the United States expressed frustration with the country’s direction in Tuesday’s elections. Democrats turned out in large numbers, independents moved away from President Donald Trump, and some Republicans appeared less firmly aligned with him, according to interviews and voters’ choices at the ballot box.
Joshua Buchanan, a 39-year-old train-design engineer from Woodruff, South Carolina, voted for Trump in 2024 but said he regretted that decision. This time, he voted for Annie Andrews, the Democratic Senate candidate. Andrews’s victory over Darline Graham, the Republican endorsed by Trump, would have seemed unlikely not long ago.
Trump’s appeal to working-class voters helped reshape American politics when he entered the political stage a decade ago. But the article says his approval has fallen as his second term approaches its final stretch, amid unpopular economic policies and a war with Iran.
Democrats, dispirited two years earlier, were driven by anger and determination to vote. In some cases, voters’ desire for change appeared to matter more than the individual candidates running for governor, Senate or the House.
Sources: The New York Times Politics.