Twice this week on CNN's New Day show, co-host Alisyn Camerota has featured a set of former Donald Trump voters who now regret their vote -- calling him a "monster" and a "dictator" -- who plan on voting for Democrats for Congress. The Democratic National Committee could easily run the segments uncut instead of botherng to produce their own ads.
The first segment began with Camerota informing viewers that five of the six panel members voted for Trump but "say they are now very disappointed in him and very motivated to vote against Republicans for all the issues they think President Trump is getting wrong."
The first panel member to speak declared that he is "afraid" of "the dictator in the White House." Soon another voter called the President a "dictator" as she hyperbolically suggested there might not be any more elections in the future: "I worry that the dictator -- the wannabe dictator in the White House will make it where we don't even have any more elections."
Another woman declared that it "broke my heart" when children were separated from their parents after illegally crossing the border, and then added: "Is this the America that I grew up in? I don't think so."
In the second segment, which aired on Tuesday, one man asserted that "We've got a very crazy man driving the train, and he's going to kill this country."
And one woman lamented: "I feel like I've enabled this monster to destroy democracy -- to destroy everything that is good in this country."
A bit later, two self-described lifelong Republicans indicated that they have turned independent and will vote Democratic this year, with one complaining that Republicans have been "spineless" and "cowardly."
The same woman who feared that there might not be other elections in the future inserted more hyperbole as she fretted: "I do believe he's a danger to this country and our democracy, and I'm going to fight every day."
