What’s happening here is not interesting. Some Rs rejected Trump in 2016 not because of character or temperament but because they feared he would not make conservative policy in areas they cared about. He assuaged that fear, so now they’re for him. But they want to act regretful. https://twitter.com/baseballcrank/status/1305723915931496448

You can even see this in the Pew polls: Trump has significantly improved his approval among voters who backed Romney in 2012 and a third-party candidate in 2016. So it’s not just anecdotes. But Trump has lost ground with his own voters who backed Obama in 2012.

And the conservative writers who are getting emails from people like Pletka who are “reluctantly” for Trump this time? Well, they know a wildly disproportionate number of McMullin voters compared to the whole population.