{"id":80858,"date":"2026-11-03T17:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T22:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/us-voters-share-why-they-cast-their-ballots-from-frustration-with-trump-to-affordability-concerns\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T17:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T22:54:52","slug":"us-voters-share-why-they-cast-their-ballots-from-frustration-with-trump-to-affordability-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/us-voters-share-why-they-cast-their-ballots-from-frustration-with-trump-to-affordability-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"US voters share why they cast their ballots \u2013 from frustration with Trump to affordability concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018It\u2019s the disregard for the rule of law. It just seems like they\u2019re thumbing their nose at it\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In the battleground state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/maine\">Maine<\/a>, Todd Cox, 63, has supported the state\u2019s incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins not once, but twice, in previous elections. Not this time.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Cox, a technology professional, cast his vote for Collins\u2019 Democratic challenger Troy Jackson \u2013 driven not by pressing local issues, but broader concern \u201cfor the direction the country is going in\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/03\/republican-voters-maine-susan-collins-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018It\u2019s the disregard for the rule of law. It just seems like they\u2019re thumbing their nose at it\u2019 In the battleground state of Maine, Todd Cox, 63, has supported the state\u2019s incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins not once, but twice, in previous elections. Not this time. On Tuesday, Cox, a technology professional, cast his vote &#8230; <a title=\"US voters share why they cast their ballots \u2013 from frustration with Trump to affordability concerns\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/us-voters-share-why-they-cast-their-ballots-from-frustration-with-trump-to-affordability-concerns\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US voters share why they cast their ballots \u2013 from frustration with Trump to affordability concerns\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}