2016 Postmortem

For Thoeni, who is planning on changing her registration, Democrats have put forth no other candidate that she finds appealing. Although she caucused for Hillary Clinton in 2008, she said that she finds the many controversies of her campaign unsettling.

“I voted for Hillary, but I do not want her in this. I was all for women’s power, but she just got herself involved in too many things. She lies; it doesn’t look good. Her emails —” she said, before suddenly being interrupted by Trump’s descending plane as it flew low across the sky above the crowd.

“That’s Trump, that’s Trump right there!” she pointed excitedly, laughing along with a friend she brought to the event in hopes of persuading her to vote for the mogul.

And Bernie Sanders?

“Just too old,” she said of the Vermont senator, who is 74.

As Trump’s plane taxied on the runway, Thoeni remarked that she admired Trump’s energy and youthful appearance.

“He seems like such a young man. He seems my age,” she said of the 69-year-old businessman. “He’s got a full head of hair.”