Posted on 05/28/2017 1:57:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Elliott County in Eastern Kentucky, which has voted for a Democrat for president in every election for 144 years, overwhelmingly went for Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, by a vote of 2,000 to 740.
The county remains overwhelmingly Democratic in its registration, with 4,580 registered Democrats and 429 registered Republicans, according to the Lexington Herald Leader.
This week, CNN visited Elliott County, which is among the poorest in the country with a staggering poverty rate of over 34% and which has one of the highest percentages of people in the nation who rely on federal benefit programs.
CNN sat down with one Democratic voter who for the first time in his life, cast a vote for a Republican presidential candiate, but is now regretting his decision to back then-candidate Donald Trump, who swore he’d never touch Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
Trump’s new budget, released last Tuesday, recommends $4.1 trillion in spending cuts to federal assistance programs like food stamps and Medicaid, social services the Easterling family depends on to survive while jobs are scarce.
“I mean, I felt just like I was — just like he played me for a fool,” he said. “I mean, I kind of took it personal.”
When asked if he would recast his vote, he said “without a doubt” he’d vote for Hillary Clinton if he had the chance to do it again.
When CNN asked another Trump voter about Trump’s proposed cuts to federal safety net programs, he had just two words for his fellow neighbors: “Tough luck.”
Watch the video below:
just like he played me for a fool,” he said. “I mean, I kind of took it personal.”
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So, personally, you are a fool?
That’s Trump’s fault?
Wow a Democrat voter said that?! Lol
So CNN is going to towns finding disgruntled Trump voters? First of all, there is never a way to prove this person A. Voted at all or B. Actually voted for Trump
Wow. What kind of lucrative job did Disgruntled have that abruptly ended on Jan. 21, 2017 and plunged his family into such despair?
Obviously, during the Urkel years, he must've been swimming in dough.
#FakeNews claims to have found someone who claims to be a lifelong democrat who claims to have voted Trump as his first GOP ballot. The challenge is guessing whether this voter is fictional, or this voter actually voted for Hillary and is lying about ever supporting Trump, or some other major part of the story is a complete lie. The only fun part of reading the mainstream media is trying to unravel the mystery: “which critical parts of the story are intentional lies?”
144 years? Really?
Sorry, not buying it.
Yes, 144 years is correct. The 740 that voted for Hillary still sit around with their hands out. I’m from an adjoining county and many in that area think that the government owes them a living, health care, shelter, food, etc, etc. It’s generational and they won’t ever change.
no name! This is straight out of the Janet Cook School of Journalism. Comical really.
Hellary voter(s) playing CNN’s tune.
Did this slug get so poor since January 20? Of course not. He’s been riding the gravy train for years, gettin “free” goodies paid for by taxpayers. Wonder how many kids he brought into the world for others to support. He’s the guy who will always be a Democrat because they promise to take care of him on someone else’s dime.
so...is this ‘voter’ admitting he’s been scamming Medicaid and foodstamps? Because if he’s legit, there wouldn’t be an effect on him. Scammers, otoh, should worry.
Trump played him for a fool and rightfully so!
The first fool move that any Democrat makes is becoming one.
Wiki has 26% (not 34%) below poverty line, so right off the article is not accurate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_County,_Kentucky#Demographics
Bart Simpson: Didn’t you wonder why you were getting checks for doing absolutely nothing?
Grampa: I figured ‘cause the Democrats were in power again.
More like the “train of bare subsistence.
Why in the world does he think I do?
Didn’t see the guys name mentioned in the excerpt.
Don’t care anyway.
5.56mm
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