Meaning of double hater | Babel Free

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A person who did not favor either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party candidate in the 2016, 2020, or 2024 United States presidential election.

US, informal

Examples

“Donald Trump’s data analysts gave them a nickname: “double haters.” These were people who disliked both candidates but traditionally showed up at the polls to vote.”

“Trump's analysts nicknamed this group "double haters." They comprised about 3% to 5% of the 15 million voters the campaign believed were persuadable.”

“Without Clinton on the ballot this year, Trump no longer wins what Republicans in 2016 wryly dubbed the "double hater" vote — a small but important slice of the public that dislikes both presidential candidates, but grudgingly settled for Trump as the lesser evil.”

“There's the anti-Trump forces on the right and the anti-Biden forces on the left, but there's also the anti-everyones, the so-called double haters, the people who really dislike both their choices and say they don't want to vote for either candidate. We had double haters in 2020, and they tended to ultimately break for Biden.”

“Double haters make up about 15% of the electorate, according to a poll this month by USA TODAY/Suffolk University, giving them significant sway in deciding the outcome of the November election.”

“Uhh, okay. 67% of, this is my favorite category, the double haters, and a lot of us are in this category, [laughter] including me. Look, I- I'm never going to vote for Trump and I'm never going to help Trump win. So that's not going to happen. But, you know, beyond that, uhh, I got no love for Joe Biden. So, you know, double hater? Well, maybe. Uhh. So. Anyways, that's a big number; that's a big group in America, the double haters, understandably so. And uhh...67% of them said that the- that Trump should drop out. Now that's, like, since they're not decided, that's a really important group. On the other hand, they already hate him, that's why they're double haters, so it's not that surprising that two-thirds of them- of them want him to drop out.”

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