Republican living in Prince George hopes Trump gets turfed

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“I’ve been a Republican since Ronald Reagan was president and I’ve been aghast at Trump and I was so afraid that Trump might get back in and that it would be my fault if I didn’t vote against him that I voted for Biden.”

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So, what has turned him off of Trump?

“He’s not fact-based. I mean look at the whole coronavirus thing. How many Americans have died? 230, 240,000? Isn’t that more people that died than in WWII, WWI? It’s four times as many people that died in the Vietnam War and it’s going to go away miraculously last April? And he does nothing.”

Orlowsky is also concerned about the tax cuts Trump has implemented.

“Even before corona, he was running trillion dollar deficits. It used to be the Republican Party was the party that was fiscally conservative. That’s the part of the party I came from. I may be more socially liberal than a lot of them but fiscally conservative, you pay your bills.

“When they’re racking up trillion dollar deficits pre-COVID-19, that’s just frightening. Somebody has got to pay for it. Is it going to be my kids? Or grandkids?”

He says another thing at stake is the future of healthcare in the United States.

“I’m not a big fan of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), but anything that gets health care to my fellow Americans. My parents both died of cancer. My dad came down with colon cancer, my mom wanted to quit her job to take care of him but couldn’t. She was a teacher, had to spend 20 years before she would get health care carried over into retirement.

“So, healthcare is a crucial thing. Canadians maybe don’t realize and every time Americans have an election I get calls from my friends, ‘is it really that bad up there? Because the political right is like, it’s socialized medicine, you can’t see the doctor you want. You wait months and months. My son is a nurse, if you have normal stuff in Canada, you get taken care of. Sometimes it takes a while but, admittedly more than I would like, but you still get taken care of. Nobody is worrying themselves sick about getting sick.”

With a victor yet to be declared as of this morning (Nov.4) he admits he’s feeling nervous.

“It’s discouraging. Of course we went through this with Bush and Gore. I said before, I have a feeling in the pit of my stomach that Trump is going to win again, and that scares me.”