double hater

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Noun

double hater (plural double haters)

(US politics) A person who did not favor either the Democratic Party (in 2020, candidate Joe Biden; in 2024, Kamala Harris (formerly Biden)) or the Republican Party (candidate Donald Trump) in the 2020 or the 2024 United States presidential election.
- 2024 March 17, Carlos Lozado, Katherine Miller, Michelle Cottle, Lydia Polgreen, quoting Carlos Lozado, “The Double-Hater Election”, in New York Times, page SR 11:
  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.
- 2024 March 23, Joey Garrison, “Meet the surging ‘double haters’ who could decide whether Biden or Trump wins the election”, in USA Today:
  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.
- 2024 June 5, Cenk Uygur, 7:39 from the start, in Was Trump Hurt by the Felony Conviction? Poll Results‎^[1], YouTube; The Young Turks, archived from the original on June 05, 2024:
  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.