Facing Four More Years of Trump, Democrats Wonder: How Did They Lose Parents?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

75% : By comparison, Trump won the same group by four points over Kamala Harris -- a seven-point swing in four years' time.
54% : In an interview, he said that while the GOP had responded to the public's pandemic-era dissatisfaction with public education by launching a forceful drive for school choice, Democrats "haven't offered anything" to strike a meaningful contrast.
51% : And unlike some polling surprises over the last decade, it's one that political observers have long seen coming.
47% : Green's Republican opponent in the pivotal swing state, a longtime homeschool teacher who had referred to public schools as "indoctrination centers," is now seeking a position in the Trump administration, though her future in state-level politics is murky.Going forward, Paris argued, Democrats should speak directly to parents' concerns about the academic and psychological deficits absorbed by students during the pandemic.
45% : But after the difficulties she faced putting her kids through school during the pandemic, she cast her first ballot for Donald Trump.
45% : Two of her children have Individualized Education Programs, making it nearly impossible for her to consider switching them to a private school, she said.
45% : "I would like for the focus in public education to be on helping our kids recover from learning loss since COVID, which we're still not talking about," Paris said, adding that Republicans would prefer to keep the spotlight on hot-button issues like the rights of LGBTQ students.
35% : By this November, she said, she felt perfectly comfortable voting for Trump, whom she said she "hated" during his previous campaigns in 2016 and 2020.
32% : "Since the end of the Obama administration, amid enervating fights over the Common Core academic standards and the rewriting of the No Child Left Behind Act, the party has mostly avoided staking out ambitious positions on K-12 policy.
29% : According to a detailed voter analysis conducted for Fox News by the research group NORC, caregivers of children under the age of 18 favored Joe Biden over Donald Trump by a margin of three percentage points in 2020.
22% : Many of her friends in the neighborhood of Garfield Ridge reached a similar calculation, and Trump lost consistently Democratic Illinois by a smaller margin than any Republican nominee since the 1980s.

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