To Republicans, white, working-class voters represent the path to the president’s reelection. To Democrats, they personify opportunity, a chance to siphon off just enough Trump votes in swing states to remove him from office.
my alma mater. Her news consumption makes Weber an informed voter, which flies in the face of stereotypes about some Trump supporters. In fact, most of the voters I interviewed in northeastern Pennsylvania were informed, though not all the information was accurate. Almost all of them, aside from Weber, said they got their news primarily or exclusively from Fox News, which reinforced their pro-Trump worldview.
It is notable that many of the women I interviewed independently broached Trump’s history with women: his adultery, his vulgar insults, the pre-election payoffs to women who said they had affairs with him, and allegations by multiple women that he sexually assaulted them, which he denies. Flo Eldredge, our waitress at the Glider a couple months before the coronavirus closed down in-person dining, brought this up right off the bat.
Eldredge said she loves Trump—like so many of the women I talked to, she was not shy about using that verb—and that he hasn’t done anything she doesn’t like. She said she agreed with Trump’s efforts to thwart undocumented immigration, and even more so to prevent abortion, which Eldredge, a Catholic, considers murder. She endorsed his order to kill Soleimani, and suggested going after Korean leaderas well. She is not a proponent of Obamacare, which she said drove up her out-of-pocket costs.
In June, Weber, too, expressed doubts about Biden. “He didn’t seem like he’s always with it,” she told me on the phone. She was also a bit more circumspect about Trump, saying that she had “mixed emotions.” But then she repeated several right-wing talking points about the coronavirus and police brutality . In discussing her dismay with a coronavirus lockdown imposed by Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor,she launched into a hateful rant about the state’s health secretary, who’s a trans woman.
Paige Cognetti was one of them. She was elected Scranton’s first woman mayor in November to fill out the remaining term ofwho resigned and pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges. A veteran of Obama’s 2008 campaign and administration, Cognetti ran as an independent, bucking what she described as an entrenched Democratic power structure. “There’s a real progressive energy throughout the city,” Cognetti told me late last year. “I think I got some Trump voters.
Her religious convictions have made Stull a steely judge of character. Though she voted for Bill Clinton and considered him a good president, she thought his affair withmade him unfit. “His behavior excluded him from that office,” she said. “And I’m glad I said that, because now I can say that about this president.
Moreover, she said, Trump has delivered on his promises. “He gave them conservative judges; he gave them Jerusalem; he gave them abortion. If you’re a Christian, the promises he made you, he followed through on.”
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