A Florida voter who cast his ballot for Donald Trump in 2024 admitted that he misses President Joe Biden and the relatively good economy during the Biden administration now that the price of gas has skyrocketed and is more than $8 a gallon in some states as a result of Donald Trump’s attack on Iran.
MS NOW reporter Alex Tabet spoke with two men in Lantana, Florida, this morning as they filled up their cars, noting, “At this gas station just behind me, a gallon goes for about $3.79, diesel $5.19. Now, we’ve been chatting to two South Floridians who tell two very different stories of two very different Americas. One is Eric Silverman, he’s a real estate investor. We chatted with him after he was filling up his luxury car with premium gas. And the other is Richard Stanley, he’s a construction worker who we talked to right after he filled up his pickup truck with diesel. I want you to hear from both of these men about how they’re processing this moment.”
“Oil prices go up and down, stock market goes up and down. Interest rates go up and down,” Silverman said nonchalantly. “The short run, it sucks, but I think that it’s going to be short run.”
Stanley, however, was downright despondent.
“He [Trump] was bragging the other day on news, $1.90 or $2.90 somewhere — it’s $5.50 a gallon.”
“I miss my Uncle Joe,” he added. “I was bawling then, now I couldn’t even tell you. I couldn’t even show you $5 in my pocket.”
Tabet told host Ana Cabrera, “Eric and Richard come from two very different walks of life. But what these two men have in common is they both voted for President Trump in 2024. You heard from Richard there, the construction worker, that he misses his Uncle Joe.”
Oh, well. It sucks to be you, Richard. Guess you should have voted for the lady whose laugh you and other Republicans made fun of and said you couldn’t support. She wouldn’t have been led around by the nose by Bibi Netanyahu, and we’d all be a hell of a lot better off right now.
