Despite the controversy surrounding Trump's early actions, supporters in Pennsylvania remain largely optimistic, viewing his efforts to reduce federal spending, appoint controversial figures, and scale back diversity initiatives as positive steps.
By Natalie Allison, The Washington PostLidia Robidoux, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, poses for a photo with Trump -themed cardboard cutouts outside the Mohegan Arena at Casey Plaza in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, in 2024.
“There’s two genders. I don’t care if you identify as a monkey, you’re still either a male or female. The last four years shoved it down our throats.” his efforts to scale back the federal workforce, to stand by controversial Cabinet nominees and to slash foreign aid.once a Democratic stronghold, has only grown in the four years since he left Washington appearing to be politically finished, following his unsuccessful efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. Luzerne, and neighboring swing counties like Lackawanna and Monroe, each moved toward him by roughly five more percentage points in November.
He said he supports scaling back some federal DEI programs and employing fewer people in them, without scrapping diversity initiatives altogether. And there probably are select situations, he said, in which a transgender teenager may need relevant medical care through a federally run health-care program, despite Trump signing an executive order to prohibit it.
Granteed agreed with every action the president had taken over the last 10 days - even if he thought it was “a little early” for Trump to baselessly speculate that DEI initiatives had caused a tragic plane crash in Washington the night before. His support for Trump’s pardoning of Jan. 6 defendants was no exception.
“Here’s another reason Trump won,” Scavo said, changing topics after discussing Jan. 6 and his recent pardon. He grabbed an off-brand miniature sucker from his pile of candy on the table. “You see the size of this lollipop?”“Yeah. The average consumer is like, ‘We’re done with this,’” Scavo said. “Even for a small lollipop, this is too small.”In adjacent Lackawanna County, where Biden spent the first decade of his life, Trump’s entrance into politics cost Democrats significant ground.
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