{"id":27681,"date":"2016-02-17T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T23:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=27681"},"modified":"2016-03-16T13:28:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T18:28:50","slug":"trump-supporter-untroubled-by-shifting-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/trump-supporter-untroubled-by-shifting-positions\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump supporters untroubled by shifting positions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Misha Euceph<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcap\">With Donald Trump leading by a mile on the eve of the South Carolina primary, his rivals are asking whether he is a true Republican.<\/p>\n<p>A super PAC aligned with former Florida governor Jeb Bush put it bluntly in a new ad: &#8220;If Trump wins, conservatives lose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Donald Trump is just plain wrong,&#8221; declares an ad by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. The 30-second spot criticizes Trump for speaking highly of Planned Parenthood&#8217;s efforts on women&#8217;s health, even as the New York businessman says he opposes abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative critics say Trump,\u00a0 a former Democrat, is a flip-flopper, yet the charge has been slow to stick. He easily won last week&#8217;s New Hampshire vote and holds a substantial lead in the polls ahead of Saturday&#8217;s GOP primary. FiveThirtyEight gives him an 84 percent chance of winning the state.<\/p>\n<p>All candidates massage their records, but the charge of changing positions can doom a campaign, most notably Democrat John Kerry in 2004. He never recovered from his statement that he voted for an Iraq War measure before he voted against it.<\/p>\n<p>But evidence that Trump has traded liberal views for conservative ones does not much matter to his most enthusiastic supporters.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27423\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/category\/topics\/election2016\/iowa-caucuses\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27423\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-27423\" src=\"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/MedillReportsLogo1-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"Campaign 2016\" width=\"200\" height=\"94\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/MedillReportsLogo1-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/medill.wordpress.offload\/WP%20Media%20Folder%20-%20medill-reports-chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/MedillReportsLogo1.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click here to check out all of Medill Reports&#8217; coverage of the Iowa Caucus and the road to the white house.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe evolve. That\u2019s the great thing about America,\u201d said former army Capt. Aunisa Strokland at an Iowa rally. \u201cYou have the right to believe in anything you want to believe in at a given point. I don\u2019t believe in things I used to believe in five years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strokland defended Trump\u2019s switch on abortion. In 1999, he said, \u201cI believe it is a personal decision that should be left to the women and their doctors.\u201d Twelve years later, addressing the Conservative Political Action Conference, he said, \u201cI am pro-life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a major thing with me,\u201d said Raekwon Goodlet, a young, black voter from Iowa, of the abortion issue. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t bother me. There are a lot of people that have a change of heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s campaign website bypasses the issue of abortion, focusing instead on issues including tax reform, immigration reform and Second Amendment gun rights. Yet these issues, too, fail to pass a consistency test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI support the ban on assault weapons and I support slightly longer waiting periods to purchase a gun,\u201d said Donald Trump in 2000 in his book, The America We Deserve.\u00a0 At the CPAC conference eleven years later, however, Trump flipped on the issue, declaring, \u201cI am against gun control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s change in party affiliation \u2014 he was a registered Democrat from 2001 to 2009, according to the New York City board of elections\u2014 doesn\u2019t give his supporters pause, either. Instead, some claim to make the switch with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI used to be the same. Because of him, I\u2019m now a Republican,\u201d said Mike Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>Others laud Trump\u2019s willingness to entertain conflicting ideas. \u201cI think it\u2019s nice that he has views from both sides,\u201d says Dakota Johnson, an 18-year-old Trump supporter in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Trump\u2019s success stands in stark contrast to John Kerry\u2019s in 2004. The Democratic nominee faced repeated attack ads. One showed him windsurfing, tacking back and forth, as it hammered the\u00a0 point home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo other Republican candidate would have lasted with a quarter of the things he\u2019s saying, but he gets away with it,&#8221; said University of Iowa politics professor Timothy Hagel.<\/p>\n<p>Hagel noted that Trump not only changes his position\u00a0 over time, but quickly pivots in certain contentious situations. He recalled a derogatory comment the candidate made about opponent Carly Fiorina\u2019s appearance, only to declare, \u201cShe\u2019s beautiful,\u201d without apologizing at the following GOP debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a master manipulator,\u201d Hagel said.<\/p>\n<p>Other scholars point to the strategy of Trump\u2019s opponents as the reason the \u201cflip flopper\u201d label never stuck. \u201cThe attack has not been made in a very direct or sustained way,\u201d said Cary Covington, a scholar of the presidency at the University of Iowa .\u00a0 \u201cIt did not show up early, when voters were still forming their opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Covington said the window to influence a voter is short.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce voters form an opinion, they resist changing it,\u201d he added. \u201cBecause of cognitive dissonance, they tend to discount the source of the attack or even just ignore it, rather than allowing it to change a more fundamental position that they\u2019ve formed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sue and Stan Gustafson, husband and wife, are unbothered by Trump&#8217;s shifts. In his move to the right, Sue says, they see themselves, &#8220;We were hippies in the 70s. He used to be pro-choice. People change. We\u2019re totally different. You get older, you get wiser.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"featurecaption\">Donald Trump talks to his supports at a rally in Davenport. (Misha Euceph\/MedillReports)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Misha Euceph With Donald Trump leading by a mile on the eve of the South Carolina primary, his rivals are asking whether he is a true Republican. A super PAC aligned with former Florida governor Jeb Bush put it bluntly in a new ad: &#8220;If Trump wins, conservatives lose.&#8221; &#8220;Donald Trump is just plain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":27713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[766,978,585],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election2016","category-iowa-caucuses","category-winter-2016"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump supporters untroubled by shifting positions - Medill Reports Chicago<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/trump-supporter-untroubled-by-shifting-positions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump supporters untroubled by shifting positions - Medill Reports Chicago\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Misha Euceph With Donald Trump leading by a mile on the eve of the South Carolina primary, his rivals are asking whether he is a true Republican. 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