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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Nobody is tired of winning here.
Not at the Crossroads Cafe, where regulars pick at politics over breakfast. Not at the Rotary Club, where the meeting dutifully opens with the invocation, Pledge of Allegiance and four-way test for ethical behavior. Not at the Indiana Theater, a grand venue where thousands crammed in on May 1, 2016, to see Donald J. Trump, the candidate who vowed to win so much that Americans would become weary of it.
Here in Vigo County, that disappointment carries extra weight and perhaps a warning sign for the president. For more than a century, its voters have been almost unerring in choosing the winning presidential candidate, and last year they broke convincingly for Mr. Trump.
But now, the presidents grip on voters here seems shaky.
Winning? I dont get a sense that we are winning, said Bart Colwell, the president of the Terre Haute Savings Bank, who described himself as a Republican but declined to say whom he voted for in November. I think his tone is pretty negative. His tone would not be a tone that most people in leadership would use.
Even as many voters here say they like Mr. Trumps policies on tax cuts and reducing the size of government, the relentlessly combative approach that served him well during the campaign has become a source of deep discontent.
He cant keep his mouth shut, said Jim Hunter, an insurance agent who voted for Mr. Trump. He is berating his own party. He needs every Republican vote on taxes. I wish that Twitter stuff would all just stop. I dont even like to see him on TV. He added, I would have serious reservations about voting for him again.
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Squinch
(50,955 posts)billionaires to get a tax cut.
Can't fix stupid.
mountain grammy
(26,625 posts)Maddening stupidity.
GReedDiamond
(5,313 posts)...so all he's got at this point are "serious reservations."
Assholes like this fucking moron brought us The Fucking Moron.
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)You hear this a lot wherever you go and speak to Republicans. At least half of them sound like this.
You cannot win reelection if half of your base sounds like this.