How US swing state voters are reacting to Trump's victory

DW (English)

To understand what voters expect from a new Donald Trump presidency, DW visited Bucks County in Pennsylvania, a swing county within the Keystone State that hadn't been won by a Republican presidential candidate since 1988.

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00:00At this store in a Pennsylvania suburb, Trump's political comeback has been good for business.

00:07This money's for Donald Trump.

00:09Make America great.

00:10Sales have been soaring since election day.

00:14That is awesome.

00:16We were absolutely swamped.

00:19Customers came in, they cleaned us out.

00:20One of the things that we featured yesterday, and it's been selling very briskly, are our

00:24Trump 1 flags, our two cat-themed shirts.

00:29We sold a ton of them yesterday as well.

00:31And that, of course, makes fun of the whole illegal aliens in Springfield, Ohio, because

00:36we figure so long as they're going to keep allowing illegals into the country and they're

00:40not going to do anything about it, we're going to continue to lay the satire on nice and

00:44thick.

00:46But it isn't just provocative statements that moved voters, Lisa says.

00:51It's the policies Donald Trump promises to implement, she tells me, that won over even

00:56lifelong Democrats in her town of Bensalem in Bucks County.

01:02They did not feel as though what the Democrat Party was fighting for anymore was the things

01:06that they believed in.

01:08Economic basics was a huge thing.

01:10Economics drove a lot of it.

01:14That's something we've heard over and over again here.

01:17The economy, but also immigration and foreign affairs, simply felt better managed under

01:24Donald Trump.

01:25A sentiment his campaign capitalized on in purple counties like this one.

01:30Until November 5th, Bucks County had not voted for a Republican president in 35 years.

01:38For weeks leading up to election day, places like these in Bucks County, Pennsylvania were

01:43fiercely fought over by both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

01:48That effort paid off for the president-elect, who won the county by a little over 500 votes.

01:55That slim margin means expectations for Trump's second term are mixed here.

02:00In nearby Doylestown, we spoke to residents about what they imagine the next four years

02:05will be like.

02:06More money in my pocket, close the border down, illegal aliens, yes, it's going to be

02:13much better.

02:14It's kind of been a worst-case scenario, with us not only losing at the presidential, but

02:18also losing the Senate and the House.

02:20It's looking a little bit grim right now.

02:21I worry that someone like him, without those safeguards.

02:24My grandson was in class with a friend who is Latino, who was hysterical crying.

02:31He's so scared.

02:32I think America is going to be great again.

02:34Already we're seeing it in the stock markets going up.

02:38Angry that we can't move forward, that people want to stay in the 50s.

02:44And I just feel like they want women to be in the kitchen pregnant and no shoes on.

02:50Back at the Trump store in Bin Salem, Lisa is sure a second Trump term won't just be

02:55good for America, but for her shop as well.

02:58For the longest time he was saying, you know, America first.

03:03And so America first themed merchandise has been very popular here.

03:08So there'll be other things going forward.

03:12Whether those things will help bridge the differences between residents of Bucks County

03:17is unclear.

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