Posted on 01/18/2017 2:34:09 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Iowa has played an important role in the presidential election process for decades as a swing state in the heart of the Midwest, and this year it swung for Donald Trump.
Now Trump supporters are excited to see how their pick pans out.
“He won the Electoral College because of the Midwest,” said Beverly Harper, a 77-year-old who worked in therapeutic horseback riding from Bettendorf, Iowa, “You take Wisconsin, Iowa all those states and Pennsylvania also. Right down the center of the United States. The little guy is finally speaking up.”
Harper was one of a handful of customers at two popular diners in eastern Iowa -- Mickey’s Country Café in Pleasant Valley and Ross’ Family Restaurant in Bettendorf --who spoke to ABC News about their thoughts about the upcoming inauguration and Trump administration.
The job announcements that Trump has made during the transition has Harper “excited and relieved.”
“I think President to be Trump has done more with the economy already than what the past president has done in eight years,” Harper told ABC News.
Harper said that the expected protests around the inauguration, where “we have all of this opposition going to kick up a big fuss about it all” isn’t appropriate....
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
I gave Ronald Reagan a chance as a young woman in 1984 and he helped me into a job in which I am now about to draw a nice pension. I suspect a younger generation is going to reap Mr. Trump’s benefits. They just need to give him a chance.
All we are saying...
Is give Pence a chance.
I'm not sure you quite realize what you actually are saying. A chance at what?
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