Within the city of Windham, about 50 kilometres from New Hampshire’s capital, Harmony, Benjamin Grelle, 72, says he will probably be voting for Donald Trump – simply as he had up to now two common elections.
“I’m certain he’s a foul man in some ways, however he’s not a lifetime politician,” he tells me. “When he was right here, the financial system was in lots higher form and I don’t know what’s occurring at our border, to be sincere. It’s a multitude.”
It’s a standard sentiment amongst many citizens I converse to as I journey throughout the US forward of this 12 months’s election. Whereas many settle for that Trump has his flaws, they genuinely consider that life was higher when he was in energy in comparison with the previous few years underneath Joe Biden.
And lots of are prepared to miss his many authorized woes – or, like Grelle, consider they’re a part of a political witch hunt to cease him returning to energy.
“They’re trumped up expenses, no pun meant,” Grelle says, once I ask what the thinks concerning the 91 indictments Trump faces over alleged election subversion, hush cash funds and his dealing with categorized paperwork.
Terri and Richard Taylor Republican voters in Salem, New Hampshire, at a Nikki Haley rally the evening earlier than the polls opened.Credit score: Farrah Tomazin
“However the extra they attempt to do what they’re doing to him, the extra assist he’s getting. What are his enemies so afraid of? It’s election interference. It’s scary how biased every thing is – they’ve weaponised the DOJ, the FBI, you may’t belief our authorities.”
In Salem, New Hampshire, Nikki Haley supporter Terri Taylor says she dislikes Trump a lot that she is going to in all probability vote for Biden over him.
She says she had initially thought-about different Republican candidates, together with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, “however Nikki is my favorite and I’ve been supporting her for months”.
“She has a relaxed nature, she has international coverage expertise from working on the United Nations, she has government expertise from being a governor for 2 phrases, and he or she’s an accountant so she is aware of how cash works.”
