bill718
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Nobody is tired of winning here. Like so many other places that voted for Trump they are struggling just as much or more than before the election of 2016. Promises of returning manufacturing jobs, infrastructure jobs, and better health care have not materialized, and it's residents have all but given up hope
Its economy is struggling. City finances are a mess. Markers of misery — lower family income, higher rates of smoking and obesity, surging opioid use — are many. Its 108,000 residents are much whiter than the nation as a whole, and its demographics are changing only to the degree that the population is skewing older and less educated. It has benefited from government programs, like disability payments and a stimulus grant under the Obama administration that delivered a flood control project, but people here rail against Washington anyway.
If President Trump cannot deliver on some of his promises soon, with a GOP controlled Congress, a young Liberal Junior Senator from a blue state may very well become the next President, and sweep in with him (or her) a Democratic Congress just like one did in 2008.
Time is running out Trump supporters.....
A Presidential Bellwether Is Still Waiting to Start Winning Under Trump
Manufacturing jobs in America: They're not coming back
Its economy is struggling. City finances are a mess. Markers of misery — lower family income, higher rates of smoking and obesity, surging opioid use — are many. Its 108,000 residents are much whiter than the nation as a whole, and its demographics are changing only to the degree that the population is skewing older and less educated. It has benefited from government programs, like disability payments and a stimulus grant under the Obama administration that delivered a flood control project, but people here rail against Washington anyway.
If President Trump cannot deliver on some of his promises soon, with a GOP controlled Congress, a young Liberal Junior Senator from a blue state may very well become the next President, and sweep in with him (or her) a Democratic Congress just like one did in 2008.
Time is running out Trump supporters.....
A Presidential Bellwether Is Still Waiting to Start Winning Under Trump
Manufacturing jobs in America: They're not coming back
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