WUWM voter roundtable: a would-be Trump voter has second thoughts

2024 was a big year in politics in Wisconsin and across the country. Donald Trump was running for a second term against former President Joe Biden...who ended up dropping out of the race.

In the summer of 2024 the Republican National Convention was held in Milwaukee, which brought Trump and other Republican leaders to the state. Just ahead of that, we got a group of conservative-leaning voters together. At the time, all of voter roundtable participants planned to vote for Donald Trump.

Now that Trump has been in office for a little over a year, we’re checking back in with some of them to see how they ended up voting, and what they think of Trump’s second term so far. We’ll start with Gissell Vera, an education advocate in Milwaukee. Here she is catching up with WUWM’s Maayan Silver.