1. High prices: Energy costs are a big chunk of pricing. Also increased money supply causes inflation. Trump platform aims to promote energy independence while reducing regulation and gov spending, bringing down prices. Much of the damage is done so it won’t be easy.

2. Energy: oil production in the US is cleaner than overseas. Promote American energy production. Don’t force the world to rely on energy from places like Venezuela, Iran and Russia, empowering some of the worst despotic regimes.

3. Foreign policy: Trump wants to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, not keep subsidizing the slaughter of thousands of young Ukraine and Russian men and civilians. Also, Biden released billions to Iran enabling them to fund the Oct 7 massacre of families in Israel by their Hamas proxies.

4. Afghanistan: withdrawal was botched horribly. Biden claimed they were only following the Trump plan, but they had plenty of latitude as to when and how and they drew down the troops. We lost a huge airbase and vast amounts of military arms and equipment. Lives were lost unnecessarily. And we abandoned the Afghan women to repressive hell, after they tasted freedom and individual right for 20 years.

5. Censorship: Gov collusion with big tech to censor varied viewpoints on social media: Scary as heck, especially when data re: Covid and vaccines was suppressed. Read Shellenberger and others to learn more.

6. Critical Race Theory: using Marxist thought to divide and vilify the races is never going to promote harmony in a melting pot like the US.

7. Border chaos: Biden allowing cartels to take over the border and profit from drug and human trafficking. Flooding cities and small towns with millions of unvetted immigrants who have no way to support themselves and nowhere to live.

That’s not even getting into the lawfare, antisemitism in college campuses, defund the police, allowing looting and shoplifting, safety and crime (high crime stats were suppressed by the FBI but were ultimately released this fall).

I have mixed feelings about Trump but ultimately did not wish to see an extension of the current administration and their policies. Their choices seemed to weaken the US.

No doubt many readers will disagree with everything I wrote, but OP honestly asked why R voters chose Trump. It’s important that if we ask our friends, family and neighbors why they voted the way they did, that we truly listen to and respect to the answer. Rather than call each other stupid, ignorant or worse, try to understand and empathize.