The complexities of covering swing voters and what they teach us about politics

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For Reporter's Notebook, an NPR political correspondent shares the lessons she has learned listening in on groups of swing voters in swing states.

DANIELLE KURTZLEBEN, HOST: It's ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Danielle Kurtzleben. Since January, NPR political correspondent Ashley Lopez has been listening in on focus groups of swing voters who voted for President Biden in the 2020 election and then switched to President Trump in 2024. Here's Ashley reporting for Morning Edition in May about a group of 12 North Carolina swing voters. ASHLEY LOPEZ, BYLINE: What most of these voters expressed was a deep frustration that Trump is out of touch when it comes to the economy.