President Donald Trump reversed course on a ban of most flavored e-cigarettes due to concerns that he’d anger his supporters and eliminate related jobs just before his reelection.
According to the Washington Post, he let the ban die despite pressure from first lady Melania Trump and White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump. The two pushed the issue after a rash of mysterious deaths linked to vaping.
“We can’t have our kids be so affected,” Trump said a couple of months ago at a policy announcement with his wife. “She’s got a son,” Trump added, referring to their shared son, Barron. “She feels very strongly about it.”
Trump was shaken by a pervasive social media campaign called #IVapeIVote and protesters at his rally. Campaign manager Brad Parscale reportedly told him that he could risk losing voters in the battleground states if he went through with the ban.
How much of that was astroturfing, I wonder, or is there really a large amount of people who use candy flavor vapes who would single issue vote on that issue.
98.37%
Trump is so easy to roll, it’s pathetic.
The “Rudy Fruitti” flavor didn’t go over well in the focus group, so there’s that.”
Vape teens in Midwest seen as key to re-election.
Who would the vape-and-voters choose to vote for if not Trump?
Trump got suckered. To the surprise of no one.