After spending months trying to get Trump voters to express regret for their support of the President, on Thursday, NBC News political analyst Nicolle Wallace took to the Today show to eagerly announce that she finally found a regretful supporter. He turned out to a liberal millennial who backed Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary before voting for Donald Trump in the general election.



Wallace led off the segment by reminding viewers of her crusade to understand Trump voters: “So we began this journey five months ago with the goal of meeting and listening to the people that many of us missed during the campaign. And this morning, one of them has something to say that he says isn’t easy.”

She noted that “we’ve been hitting the road across five states” talking to “Democrats, first-time voters and even Bernie Sanders supporters” who “all ended up voting for Donald Trump.” Returning to one of those communities, Bay City, Michigan, Wallace discovered that “one-time Bernie supporter” Jason DeFrain who “cast his first-ever presidential vote for Donald Trump,” was now a Trump critic.

After first speaking to DeFrain in February for an earlier Today show segment, Wallace announced: “But in less than two months, Jason’s enthusiasm has turned to anger.” A soundbite ran of DeFrain complaining: “I feel like I was bamboozled. I really do. Geez, he fooled me, and I kind of feel dumb. And I feel mad and I kind of feel dumb, honestly.”

Wallace wondered: “How did the President lose the support of a guy who cheered for him during his first speech to Congress?” DeFrain explained: “...more Russia stuff started piling up, he talks about being wiretapped, he’s on Twitter saying this about this person.” Wallace chimed in: “But Jason says this was the deal breaker, the attack on Syria, tough talk on North Korea, and the massive bomb dropped on ISIS in Afghanistan.”

DeFrain proceeded to launch into a typical left-wing anti-war rant:

I don’t want to see the news special of another local Saginaw teenager brought home in a casket with a flag over it. I don’t want to see that. I think he’s just going to put more people at danger now. We’re going to invade another country, there’s no way around it. The way he’s acting right now, it’s gonna happen. There’s gonna be boots on the ground. And it’s what he said wasn’t gonna happen. It’s one of the reasons I voted for him. He’s putting us at danger, and that’s not okay. I'm worried about the future of my family.

During her previous reports on Trump’s backers, Wallace lamented that she could find no “buyer’s remorse” and repeatedly admonished them for supporting the President’s “un-American” policies like the travel ban. To her chagrin, the voters she talked to consistently defied her attempts to get them to criticize the commander-in-chief.

Now that she actually found a Trump supporter who flipped, Wallace did offer a word of caution to Democrats: “But if Democrats are smelling blood in the water, there’s this warning.” “Are the Democrats doing or saying anything that makes any more sense to you now than Hillary Clinton did during the campaign?,” she asked DeFrain. He replied, “No. Neither of them are. There’s no middle anymore. Nobody wants to work together...it’s disappointing.”

Following the taped portion of the segment, Wallace admitted: “I think, you know, in fairness to Donald Trump, this is the softest part of his coalition. These are all lifelong Democrats who voted for him in these really economically challenged states. And so for them to see him focused on a foreign policy that he never talked about as a candidate is really alarming.”

A recent ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 96% of Trump voters had no regrets in their support for him and that if the election were held today he still would have defeated Hillary Clinton.

Here is a full transcript of Wallace’s April 27 report: