Im one of the 7 million Obama voters that supported President @realDonaldTrump in 2016... Were not going back to the Democratic Party. #MAGA 🇺🇸
In north-eastern Pennsylvania, where Lexington went to talk to some of these switchers, the rush to Mr Trump was dramatic. A birthplace of trade unionism, the regions main towns, Wilkes-Barre and Scranton (which was also the birthplace of Hillary Clintons father), were so Democratic that Republican gerrymanderers designed the 17th congressional district that contains them as a Democratic sink. Mr Obama won the district in 2012 by double digits. So did Mr Trump. Soon as I went to vote and saw like 50 people queueing up, I knew it was over, says the barman at the Anthracite Café, a popular joint in Wilkes-Barre, with mining memorabilia on its walls and a vast lump of coal out front.
Im one of the 7 million Obama voters that supported President @realDonaldTrump in 2016...