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Trump’s anti-government stance wins over rural Oregon

Nov 12, 2016

LAKEVIEW — Willie Hamilton stood outside the Lake County Courthouse on Friday for a Veterans Day ceremony. As a bugler played and an honor guard fired off a volley, the 73-year-old retired lumber worker said he was thrilled by Republican Donald Trump’s stunning win Tuesday night.

Trump won huge support in rural Oregon, nowhere more so than in this remote Southern Oregon county, where the businessman and television personality won 78 percent of the vote.

“Rural communities, that’s what we wanted,” Hamilton said. “People are just sick of politicians.”

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