The 77-year-old woman, identified as Melanie from North Carolina, told host Emily Jashinsky she’s “always been very conservative” and had “never voted for a Democrat in my life.”
Melanie said in audio shared online by the nonprofit research center Media Matters for America that she supported Trump until the beginning of his second term, when he appointed Pam Bondi as attorney general.
From there, she said, things went “way downhill.”
Trump fired Bondi in April amid mounting anger over her handling of files related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a one-time associate of the president.
“We’re just, as a country, we’re just screwed because it doesn’t matter who you vote for. It does not matter,” Melanie continued, saying she now faced a choice between staying home and voting for Democrats.
“It just doesn’t matter,” she said. “And I’m so pissed at the Republicans that I just might go and vote straight-ticket Democrat just because, just because. Why should I be loyal to them? We’re just so screwed.”
Melanie reiterated that she is “mad at Republicans.”
She added, “We’re just screwed. We’re just screwed no matter what.”
Jashinsky responded that she felt “there are so many people like you out there.”