To understand what Donald Trump's voters expect from his second term, when he is inaugurated as president of the United States on Monday January 20, franceinfo went to the heart of “Trump country”, the “country of Trump”, associated with white, rural, conservative, and poor states. Like West Virginia, where 70% of residents voted in November for the Republican candidate. Around the town of Romney, the figure even rises to 80%.
Michele and Garrett, farmers for six generations, will not go to Washington for Donald Trump's inauguration: they have too much to do with their 250 cows. But when asked what they expect from Donald Trump's second term, Michele answers that she hopes for better immigration control. “I see them, the immigrants who arrive in the countryside from the big cities. I hope that they will stop at the borders all these people who enter illegally”she decides.
She only wants her tax money “be spent on their medical care, their food, their housing”: “We have been paying our own insurance for years, astronomical sums. So, these people can go to the hospital and receive all the care they need. need, it's exasperating“, she explains.
“I hope they will review the social protection system, food stamps, that they will be stricter. Because it's infuriating.”
Michele, Donald Trump supporterat franceinfo
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Michele should be a little less exasperated over the next four years, because that's exactly the Donald Trump agenda. Her husband, Garrett, approves. “He's a New Yorker, so he talks tough. But he knows how to make money. We can't wait to see what he can do. I think he'll do even better than last time previous one, because now he knows Washington, and he knows how it works.”
Then head to the foot of the Appalachian mountains, to the Dollinger farm. Here, we have our feet in the snow, and our heads are deregulated. “Our next president is very pro-small business and he 100% wants less government, that’s good!”smiles a resident.
Romney residents want to be free to work, go to church, defend family values and the 2nd Amendment. David Floyd shows off a five-shot 38 caliber. “Easy to hold and can be easily hidden”, he explains. When the retiree gets into his pickup for a ride around town, he always wedges his gun between his thigh and the gear lever. “It's a normal thing. In West Virginia, you go to a gas station, you buy a gun. It's not complicated.”
On weapons, as on abortion, which is almost banned, vaccines, which could become optional, or gender issues excluded from school textbooks, West Virginia creates its own laws, even if it means going further than the tenant of the House -White, and that's exactly what he wants.
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