Evan Barker, a former Democratic operative turned voter for President Donald Trump, detailed alleged dark money influence that she says has driven the party further left.Barker, who raised money for Democratic candidates throughout her career, from Barack Obama to progressive lawmakers such as Rep.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., before deciding to vote for Trump in 2024, explained in an interview with Fox News Digital that the party's major shift influenced her decision to defect."I first got activated in Democratic politics when Barack Obama was running in 2008.
And if you look at him then and you compare him to the modern movement of the party today, it is just night and day.They have gone left on so many critical issues like immigration and identity politics and defund the police and just all of these things that I did not sign up for," she told Fox News Digital.HOW THE 'LONG MARCH' THROUGH THE INSTITUTIONS LED TO SOCIALIST TAKEOVER OF DEM PARTY: 'NEED TO WAKE UP'Cover for "Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative" by Evan Barker.
(Simon and Schuster)She argued that the party, in her eyes, abandoned the working class and ignored Americans like her family in Kansas."It was also seeing the way the people that I knew in progressive politics looked at people in the middle of the country.People like my family who had voted for Obama and then voted for Donald Trump, and they really just had a disdain for them.
They truly did view them as deplorables.And then it got even worse when I saw them actually decide to write them off.
To say that they would not even try to persuade them to vote for us anymore because there was no point," she told Fox News Digital."At that point I knew the party was doomed and I think I just experienced so much abuse working in the movement that at some point I got fed up and I was like, 'I'm gonna do this, like what other options have they given me?'" Barker added.JAMES CARVILLE ARGUES ONE KEY MISTAKE FROM BIDEN HAS LEFT DEMOCR...