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☆ Donald Trump, Joe Biden and the 2024 Election: 12 Women Discuss - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-15 | by ( Patrick Healy | Kristen Soltis Anderson | Mr. Healy Is The Deputy Opinion Editor. Ms. Soltis Anderson Is A Pollster. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

When you think about Donald Trump, what’s the first word that comes to mind? When you think about Donald Trump, what’s the first word that comes to mind? But all of them said they wished someone other than Mr. Biden would be the Democratic presidential nominee this year. This focus group is a companion to that Biden group: We spoke with 12 women who voted for Mr. Trump in 2020 to discuss how they saw him now. But disdain for Mr. Trump’s personality was exceeded by frustration with Mr. Biden on policy and competence.

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What’s clear is that Mr. Trump is no longer the outsider voice that resonated with these voters in 2016. Still, their concerns about him do not necessarily make Mr. Biden or Democrats look better by comparison. For all but one of these voters, Mr. Trump’s shortcomings do not translate into increased support for Mr. Biden at this point. But could Mr. Biden win some of them over, especially those whose top issue in this election is protecting and defending democracy? We put that question to these lapsed Trump voters, and the scale of Mr. Biden’s challenge was clear in their answers.

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Joe Biden is struggling to win the support of swing voters, and no, it’s not just because of his age. In this focus group, undecided independent voters tell Deputy Editor Patrick Healy why, if the election were held today, they’d be more likely to cast their ballot for Donald Trump than Joe Biden, despite disagreeing with him on issues like abortion. (A full transcript of this audio essay will be available within 24 hours of publication, and can be found in the audio player above.)

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What can President Biden say and do to win over undecided voters? To a striking degree, most of the participants tilted toward Mr. Trump, even though they disliked his personality. At the same time, she described experiencing more racism while Mr. Trump was president, including an ugly incident while dining out with her mother. These seeming contradictions came up with other matters as well; there was concern about the future of abortion rights yet skepticism that Mr. Biden or Mr. Trump would be any different on the issue. If there was one takeaway, it’s that Mr. Biden has his work cut out for him to win over these voters.

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Opinion writer Michelle Cottle watched last night’s New Hampshire Primary results come in alongside supporters of Nikki Haley. She says the battle of head versus heart has just started. In this audio interview, Cottle speaks with Opinion’s deputy editor, Patrick Healy, to break down the primary polls, voter “vibes” and the feeling of déjà vu from 2016. (A full transcript of this audio essay will be available within 24 hours of publishing.)

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Donald Trump is expected to win decisively in New Hampshire’s primary on Tuesday. For Republican voters who don’t want Trump as their nominee, what alternatives exist? In this audio interview, the deputy Opinion editor, Patrick Healy, talks with Opinion columnist David French about how a probable Trump nomination will “cement a significant change in two directions with the G.O.P.”(A full transcript of this audio essay will be available midday on the Times website.)

Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Patrick Healy, David French Organizations: Republican, Trump, Times

It is freezing out, so we’re putting on the mittens and the hat and talking to my colleague Michelle Goldberg, who’s been following the race. I mean, this is going to be the third consecutive election in which Republicans, barring some spectacular turn of events, nominate Donald Trump. And so it’s just all really, really boring. I think it’s already maybe irreversible in the Republican Party. But, at the same time, I just think that — imagine what it will be like to see Donald Trump inaugurated again.

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☆ The Point - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-11 | by ( Patrick Healy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Chinese officials had strongly warned Taiwanese voters not to choose as their next president Lai Ching-te, a Harvard-educated doctor whom it detests as a separatist. China cautioned that the election of Lai could lead to war in the Taiwan Strait, and it interfered in the election to try help Lai’s rivals. Taiwan’s voters took that all in and then did what mainland Chinese can’t do openly: They defied President Xi and elected Lai as president. They have made “China’s reunification” a nightmare to most Taiwanese voters. I lived in Taiwan in the 1980s, studying Chinese, and have been here countless times since.

Persons: Xi Jinping, Lai Ching, Lai, Xi, Tsai Ing, Jinping, Hsiao Organizations: Harvard, People Liberation Army Locations: Taiwan, China, Taiwan Strait, Hong Kong, New Jersey, United States

For many if not most Republican primary voters, Mr. Trump is the equivalent of an incumbent president (and to some, he still is president), and incumbents generally get renominated with ease. Several members of the group had positive things to say about Ron DeSantis, Nikki Haley and some of the other candidates. So far, the other Republican candidates for president aren’t breaking through and giving these voters reasons to pass on Mr. Trump’s candidacy. And how do you attack and beat Mr. Trump when so few Republicans — including these 11 — want to see Mr. Trump attacked? The group made some suggestions for how to appeal to them and called out dimensions of Mr. Trump that they don’t like.

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If opinion polls are to be believed, Donald Trump has the 2024 Republican presidential nomination in the bag. But in a recent Times Opinion focus group with 13 Republican voters who are looking at candidates other than Mr. Trump, the idea that the race was all but over sounded off base, either because they don’t know any other Republicans who want Mr. Trump back in office or because he seems beatable for the nomination. “My Republican friends say they are for anybody but Trump,” said one focus group participant, Carrie, a 55-year-old from Michigan. In the end, we wanted to know, if the race came down in 2024 to Mr. Trump and President Biden, would they give in and vote for Mr. Trump? It was the most painful question for some of them — and yielded bad news for Mr. Trump but no silver lining for Mr. Biden, either.

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What's keeping Republican voters feeling good about Donald Trump's presidential prospects in 2024? candidates peel voters away from Mr. Trump? Those were two of the questions that prompted us to organize our latest Times Opinion focus group, with 11 Republican voters from Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, the four states that will go first in the G.O.P. We wanted to hear their views in the aftermath of the latest indictment against Mr. Trump and ahead of this Wednesday's first debate among the leading 2024 Republican candidates. As for the debate, there was little appetite for criticism of him from the other Republican candidates.

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☆ Cathay Pacific posts best H1 profit since 2010, to repay govt aid package
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-09 | by ( Clare Jim | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

HONG KONG, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Cathay Pacific Airways (0293.HK) reported on Wednesday its best first-half profit in more than a decade and announced plans to order more planes and repay a Hong Kong government rescue package after a major turnaround in travel demand. Cathay has recovered capacity more slowly than its closest rival, Singapore Airlines, (SIAL.SI) because it faced tighter quarantine rules for longer, and needed to train more staff and bring back grounded planes. The Hong Kong carrier expects to reach 70% of its pre-pandemic capacity by the end of the year and 100% by the end of 2024. Cathay said it intended to exercise purchase rights to buy 32 Airbus (AIR.PA) A320neo family aircraft, looking to add to its fleet as demand rebounds. ($1 = 7.8151 Hong Kong dollars)Reporting by Clare Jim and Donny Kwok; Editing by Jamie Freed and Gerry DoyleOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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What grade would you give America when it comes to making progress on race and racism today? For our latest Times Opinion focus group, held in mid-June, we were curious to get those grades from young Black Americans just before the Supreme Court issued its ruling on affirmative action in college admissions. The court was weighing, on one level, whether affirmative action was no longer necessary to foster diversity on campus, as Justice Sandra Day O’Connor predicted would be the case by 2028. Looking to the future, some hoped that enrollment at H.B.C.U.s would increase with the end of affirmative action. Still, several said they believed the country will have made progress on race 25 years from now compared with today.

Persons: Sandra Day O’Connor, Jocelyn, ” Kathryn, ”, Biden Organizations: Black, America, University of Chicago Locations: Pennsylvania, America, Tennessee, Illinois, H.B.C.U.s

Democracy struggles to function without a basic level of trust. We decided to conduct a focus group with 11 Democrats, Republicans and independents to explore how much they trusted — or didn’t trust — their fellow Americans and what was making them confident or skeptical. If you can’t trust what a person looks like or is, how can you have trust in anything?” said Melissa, 38. As for building trust, both Democrats and Republicans talked mostly about values — showing more respect to other people, communicating better, listening better — and about spending less time isolating in social media. “Building trust — how do you build trust when you're not talking?”

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If you had to describe Joe Biden as an animal, what animal would you pick? If you had to describe Joe Biden as an animal, what animal would you pick? Perhaps the most surprising answers came when we asked the 11 if they saw Mr. Biden as a strong leader and as someone who shared their values. If anything, this focus group underscored that Mr. Biden has vulnerabilities and that at least some Democrats and independents are open to other Democrats challenging him for the nomination. For now, many of these 11 voters seemed inclined to back him as the lesser of two evils — a phrase we heard time and again during the conversation.

It’s a familiar, almost stale question but one that’s complicated and crucial to explore for a society and democracy as interdependent as ours. For our latest Times Opinion focus group, we decided to try something provocative: Gather a mix of Democrats, Republicans and independents who all had one unifying aspect: their membership in labor unions, which value cohesion and collective action. What does solidarity mean to them? “I think we’ve all been criticizing politicians and maybe some problems with unions. So that’s where we can come together and join, Democrats and Republicans,” said Kevin, a teacher.

What comes to mind for you when I say the name Joe Biden? As we were planning our latest Times Opinion focus groups, we noticed recent studies, data, essays and polling about high rates of young women who identify as liberal or progressive saying they feel anxious or depressed or have been told they have mental health conditions. To try to better understand this data and the pressures and self-awareness among some young Americans today, we gathered 13 progressive young women to talk about their experiences with mental health and, more broadly, whether Generation Z faces unique mental health challenges or if Gen Zers are just more open about their struggles than previous generations are. “Our generation puts more time and effort into focusing on ourselves, especially improving mental health and the human side of ourselves,” said Molly, 25, another participant. Several of the young women said that being progressive or liberal made them more inclined to educate themselves on issues, more accepting of differences — more open.

What do you hope will be better for Gen Z than it was for your generation? What do you hope will be better for Gen Z than it was for your generation? What do you hope will be better for Gen Z than it was for your generation? What do you hope will be better for Gen Z than it was for your generation? More than half of current U.S. senators are 65 or older, and millions of seniors make their voices heard every election cycle.

☆ Cathay’s people problem is Hong Kong’s too
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Thomas Shum | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

HONG KONG, March 10 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Cathay Pacific (0293.HK) may be a high-flying reminder of the Asian finance hub’s pandemic-induced isolation for longer than anyone wants. It promises a swift reversal on a HK$6.5 billion ($834 million) net loss for 2022 Cathay reported on Wednesday. The company has close to 2,405 pilots, roughly 63% of pre-pandemic numbers, according to a survey conducted in March by the Hong Kong Aircrew Officers Association and seen by Breakingviews. That makes Cathay’s people problem Hong Kong’s too. Cathay Pacific carried 1.03 million passengers in January 2023, up from 24,699 last year.

☆ Crime, Shootings, Discrimination: 12 Asian Americans Discuss - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-21 | by ( Patrick Healy | Adrian J. Rivera | Mr. Healy Is The Deputy Opinion Editor. Mr. Rivera Is An Editorial Assistant In Opinion. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

What’s the most important political issue to you right now? As we were preparing for our latest Times Opinion focus group — a discussion with 12 Americans of Asian descent and varied backgrounds — we decided to begin the conversation by getting a bit personal. We asked our participants questions about identity: how they see themselves and how they think other Americans see Asian Americans. The shootings and the broader violence against Asian Americans left several participants thinking about mental health issues in their communities. As they thought about the future for younger generations of Asian Americans, many turned back to questions about identity and expectations.

☆ What’s It Like Being Trans? 12 Transgender Americans Discuss. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-09 | by ( Patrick Healy | Adrian J. Rivera | Mr. Healy Is The Deputy Opinion Editor. Mr. Rivera Is An Editorial Assistant In Opinion. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

These days, “transgender” has become a charged word, associated with arguments over identity, gender, pronouns, sports, puberty blockers and civil rights. But for many of the approximately 1.3 million transgender Americans today, the word isn’t a topic for debate; it’s who they are. Why are so many nontrans Americans judging and opining about trans adults and children rather than listening to them? We spoke with 12 transgender Americans from across the country and the political spectrum to try to better understand what their lives are like. I’m trying to.”

☆ The College Application Process: 11 High School Seniors Discuss - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-25 | by ( Patrick Healy | Adrian J. Rivera | Mr. Healy Is The Deputy Opinion Editor. Mr. Rivera Is An Editorial Assistant In Opinion. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

What is college for? And what matters most in choosing the right college? The students were all applying to four-year schools with competitive admissions and had drawn on the U.S. News and World Report college rankings as part of their research. All 11 students believed that college is primarily for gaining a credential to get a job or admission to graduate school rather than mostly for learning about oneself and how to be an adult. “Whenever I see TikToks from college students, they’re always talking about the stress from their work,” said one of the focus group participants, Morin, an 18-year-old from Indiana.

☆ Donald Trump 2024, Kevin McCarthy and Jan. 6: 12 Republicans Discuss - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-12 | by ( Patrick Healy | Adrian J. Rivera | Mr. Healy Is The Deputy Opinion Editor. Mr. Rivera Is An Editorial Assistant In Opinion. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Looking for answers, Times Opinion decided to hold an unusual focus group: We invited back several Republican voters who spoke in our first focus group a year ago. Back then, they discussed the Jan. 6 attack, democracy and President Donald Trump; this time around, we read some of their old comments back to them and talked about whether the committee’s work had affected their opinions about Jan. 6 and Mr. Trump. But these 12 Republicans, at least, were emphatic and unanimous: None of the hearings or testimonies changed how they thought about Jan. 6. Indeed, the committee’s intense focus on Mr. Trump left some of them feeling sympathetic for him, and 10 of the 12 said they were glad he was running for president again. Still, these Republicans had frustrations with Mr. Trump and even more with the G.O.P., as well as with House Republicans after their struggle to elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker.

☆ Crime, Guns, Race, Bad Cops: 11 Law Enforcement Officers Discuss - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-03 | by ( Adrian J. Rivera | Patrick Healy | Mr. Healy Is The Deputy Opinion Editor. Mr. Rivera Is An Editorial Assistant In Opinion. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

In our latest group, with 11 police officers and other members of law enforcement from around the country, one assumption we had at the start was that some or all of them would see crime as the most important issue in the country. Time and again, the conversation kept coming back to the humanity of those affected by crime, including, in some cases, the cops. Several told their own stories about being victims of violent crime growing up or early in their careers and how it shaped them. For anyone who has dealt with a police officer who seemed robotic, uncaring, unyielding, that image is not how many cops are, they said. They wanted people to understand that cops are human, are imperfect, have feelings and want to get home to their families.

☆ Yellowstone and John and Beth Dutton: 11 Superfans Discuss - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Adrian J. Rivera | Patrick Healy | Mr. Healy Is The Deputy Opinion Editor. Mr. Rivera Is An Editorial Assistant In Opinion. | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

What is it about “Yellowstone,” the hit drama about a Montana ranch family, that has turned the show into a mirror for American politics? We don’t share land here.”That last quote sparked an exchange in the focus group in which America’s border control issue was just below the surface. They also appreciated the show’s depiction of Native Americans and had their eyes opened to crises on reservations because of the show. With the 2022 midterms behind us, we’re going to continue the Times Opinion focus groups into 2023 and include more discussions about culture and society, along with our usual focus on politics and democracy. Please feel free to email us ideas about topics and groups that you’d like to see us cover in the year ahead.

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