A onetime Trump voter turns her back on the former president

by Erik Gunn, Wisconsin Examiner

Eight years ago Lori McCammon cast her presidential ballot for Donald Trump.

Since 2020, however, she’s been part of a vocal national effort involving former Trump voters to keep the former president from returning to the White House.

“I don’t know if I could bring myself to vote for any Republican again,” says McCammon. “If they backed Trump in any way, they will never get my vote.”

McCammon, 69, lives in a house with a view overlooking the Mississippi River in the Buffalo County community of Alma, about 55 miles north of La Crosse. Born in Nebraska, she moved around the country with her family growing up, graduating from high school in La Crosse.

As an adult she wound up in southern California, where she lived for some 35 years until moving back to Wisconsin in 2017 after a high school reunion.  

For most of her life, McCammon says, she avoided paying much attention to politics. “I dreaded election years because of all of the ads,” she says.

“I’ve got to be brutally honest, if I had not been called on the carpet by a gentleman my dad used to work with years ago about voting, I don’t know that I would have been voting,” McCammon says. “By the time he was done lecturing me about the importance of voting, I’ve never failed to vote since then.”