‘Stop Trashing Trump! Trump Stop Trashing VP Harris!’ Undecided Voter Tells CNN ‘Both Candidates’ Turn Her Off With Attacks

An undecided voter told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King that “both sides” turn her off, exclaiming “Stop trashing (former President Donald) Trump! Trump, stop trashing the Vice President (Kamala Harris)!”

CNN host Anderson Cooper moderated a town hall event Wednesday night outside Philadelphia with the VP that featured questions from an audience of “undecided” or “persuadable” voters.

At one point, VP Harris called Trump a “fascist” after several of Trump’s former top aides called him fascist, and amid reports he praised Hitler, wanted his generals to be more like Hitler’s, and said Hitler did “some good things.”

Trump has relentlessly attacked the VP over her race, gender, and intellect, and has suggested she should be prosecuted — and more.

During CNN’s post-town hall coverage Wednesday night, five of those voters stuck around to talk to John King, several of whom had one-on-one conversations with Harris after the event.

Pam Thistle, a realtor who remained undecided after the town hall, told King she was thrilled to speak with Harris, and that they made a “nice connection, especially as a woman.”

But she expressed doubts about the “details” in both candidates’ plans, and the trashing from “both candidates”:

KING: Okay. All right. We’ll come back to that as well. You also had a conversation —

PAM THISTLE, UNDECIDED TOWN HALL AUDIENCE MEMBER: I did.

KING: — with the vice president after.

THISTLE: Yes.

KING: She immediately — you’re the first one she sought out.

THISTLE: That was lovely, yeah.

KING: Tell me about it. I don’t want to violate your privacy or her privacy.

THISTLE: That’s okay.

KING: But to the point —

THISTLE: And I really felt that. And I really — I came out of this feeling — just kind of a feeling of adoration of her personally. I think, personally, she is a good person. And there was a nice connection, especially as a woman. There are a lot of things that I connect with her as a woman.

However, I am very big on details. I’m big on numbers. I am a widow with 100% responsibility for my family, for my kids, for their tuitions, for my bills. And so, I do my own taxes. I’m very much on top of every dollar. And so, that is where — and I’m not really getting it from either candidate, to be honest. So, that’s where I just want to see what lines up. And I don’t know if it’s with this kind of environment that you can’t commit to something, but I really do have to vote for my family.

KING: Right.

THISTLE: And another thing that is very much a turnoff, and this is with both candidates, stop trashing each other. We don’t care. Stop trashing Trump. Trump, stop trashing the vice president. We don’t care. The voters don’t care. We don’t even know the people they’re talking about, that this person said this and that. How does that impact the voters? That’s who you’re talking to, that’s who you’re serving. This feels like high school gossip. We don’t care. We don’t want to hear it.

TAPPER: You’re all nodding about that.

THISTLE: Yeah.

KING: As someone who covered a lot of campaigns, I’m not here to take sides.

THISTLE: (INAUDIBLE).

KING: You know what Trump is — okay, that’s the point I was trying to get at.

THISTLE: Yeah, stop talking about him.

KING: In the sense that if you are her —

THISTLE: Yeah. I would say stop talking about him.

KING: But if you look at the numbers, Donald Trump is running stronger now than he was running in either 2016 or 2020. So, if you’re her, you’re thinking, I need to try to disqualify him sometime. But you’re all telling me that you would prefer she do that by making a more affirmative case. This is why you should pick me over him.

Watch above via CNN’s post-town hall coverage.