When Trump said that not paying taxes ‘makes me smart,’ undecided voters in N.C. gasped
CARY, N.C. — Donald Trump so captured Ron Townley’s attention as “an outsider ready to tear down the system,” just the one who might break the Washington logjam, the doer to build new airports and highways, that he was considering voting for him.
But Trump’s response Monday night when Hillary Clinton accused him of not paying a cent of federal tax left Townley appalled.
That comment caused a gasp in the hotel conference room where Townley and five other undecided voters in this *battleground state were watching the debate.
“That’s offensive. I pay taxes,” said Townley, 52, a program *director for a local council of governments.
“Another person would be in jail for that,” said Jamilla Hawkins, 33, who was sitting beside him in the Crescent conference room at the Embassy Suites in this city of 150,000 near Raleigh.
Hawkins’s mother had chided her to get off the fence and support Clinton, but the 33-year-old felt no connection to the Democratic nominee. “I just wasn’t sold on her. A lot of my friends were on the Bernie Sanders train,” she said.
But Hawkins said the debate made her appreciate Clinton more. She said she now leans toward voting for her — a feeling shared by most of the undecided voters gathered here for an informal focus group.
The undecided voters gathered here Monday by The Washington Post were from all over the state; they were in Cary to attend a Rural Center conference, where gubernatorial and Senate candidates were among the speakers.
Each of the men and women said they had not yet found a candidate to rally around because they found fault with both. But after the debate, four of the six undecided voters said they now leaned toward Clinton after she showed mastery of the issues and appeared more presidential. A fifth voter declared himself essentially now in the Clinton’s camp: “After tonight, I think I am convinced, I will vote for Clinton,” said the Rev. Kelly Andrews, a Baptist pastor from Tarboro.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...politics_pop_b
Even the lone dissenter ranked Hillary's performance better than Trump's.
Read the full thing, the part about Trump's stop and frisk was NOT the tea for them
slay Hill
