She raised $50 Million for the Democrats. Then she voted for Trump…
Shortly after the 2024 Election, Evan Barker, a former Democrat operative and fund-raiser published a story in The Free Press about why she voted for Donald Trump.
She began her article with these words:
The Democratic Party turned its back on me and my family long before I turned my back on it.
Barker details her deep involvement with the Democrat Party and the experiences that led to her doing the unthinkable: voting for Trump in 2024.
She spoke of her admiration of several prominent Democrats over the years and her disdain for Republicans.
Meanwhile, I admit I bought into the notion that the right only opposed illegal immigration because they were racists. But recently have I come to see that the influx of immigrants allows companies to pay wages so low their employees are barely above the poverty level. Some in my family are among the seven million men who Vice President-elect J.D. Vance has described as dropping out of the labor force entirely—not because they are lazy or don’t want to work, but because they can’t find decent-paying jobs.
Barker gives an interesting behind-the-scenes look at the Democrats:
When you consider what the modern Democratic Party has become, you begin to understand how they lost touch with their base. At the home of a major donor, a billionaire who lives in a mansion overlooking San Francisco Bay, I listened to the speakers hoping to raise funds for the 2022 midterms. Waiters dressed in black with silver trays bounced between wealthy elites. The speakers outlined their strategy for winning the midterms and the 2024 election saying: “We no longer want to win the working class. We don’t need those people anymore. They’re gone forever. The future will be young Latinos and people of color.”
I was infuriated by this talk. I also thought: That is going to be a good way to get Donald Trump reelected.
There were many twists and turns along the way in Barker’s story, and it is worth reading it all. She has not become a Republican – she is now a registered Independent. She seems as disgusted by the tone-deaf elites of the Democrat Party as we “America First” Republicans have been with our own establishment uniparty elites.
She ended her article with a conversation she had with a cab driver shortly after the 2024 election results were in:
My cabbie was a middle-aged black man. I asked him how he felt about the night. Giddily, he exclaimed: “READY to make America great again!”
When I asked him why he didn’t vote for Kamala Harris, he answered: “She just didn’t speak to me. It’s like she was pretending to speak like a black person. It felt fake.”
“Trump,” he concluded, “speaks to all of us the same.”
Read Evan Barker’s entire article here. There is another article of hers in Newsweek.
You can also follow Evan on X @Evanwch. Evan also hosts a podcast called “Not Going Back.”