Allison Huynh was a fundraiser for then-Sen. Barack Obama before he was elected president in 2008, but she now supports former President Donald Trump.
Huynh (pronounced like “win”) and her husband were attracted to Obama’s message of “hope and change” in 2007.
“It was the hope and the image that he projected” that led Huynh to not only support Obama herself in the 2008 election, but encourage others to do likewise.
As an entrepreneur and successful computer scientist in Silicon Valley in California, Huynh hosted fundraising dinners for Obama with tickets costing $50,000 a plate. But after Obama won the election and took office in 2009, Huynh says, disillusionment began to set in.
“I think he is great at messaging,” Huynh says of Obama. “He talks the talk, but he doesn’t walk the walk, right? And so I became quite disillusioned over…
