It's the economy.
That's the reason GOP voters expressed a pressing concern that spurred them to embrace billionaire businessman Donald Trump as the GOP presidential nominee.
The
Los Angeles Times reports Republicans "were desperately concerned about the economy. And they wanted an outsider to fix it."
In exit polls conducted during Tuesday's Indiana primary, two-thirds of Indiana GOP voters said they were "very worried" about the economy, and another quarter said they were somewhat concerned, The Times' Cathleen Decker writes.
And asked whether the next commander-in-chief should be "an experienced politician or an outsider, about 6 in 10 went for an outsider — and Trump won nearly 8 in 10 of those voters," according to Decker.
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