Ruy Teixeira writes at The Liberal Patriot about the people who dislike both Biden and Trump. His focus today is the roughly one in five voters who will definitely be making a "lesser of two evils" choice in November, 2024. He calls these "double haters."
Teixeira looks at this group's views on a number of different issues. However, if I had to summarize what the studies show, it would be this. Their values are closer to those of the Republican Party, but Trump actively turns them off whereas their dislike for Biden is a more passive sense that he's too old as well as being too far left.
In earlier columns Teixeira has made clear he wants Democrats to be less radical on social issues and occupy more of a middle ground. Much of his writing is in pursuit of this aim.
His obvious concern is that if somehow Republicans manage to nominate someone other than Trump, that person will get most of the votes of this "double hater" group (and win the election). And he claims surveys show this disaffected group prefer DeSantis to Biden, but Biden to Trump.
