00:03Pastor Daniel DeGamo has a gift for persuasion, in church and on the auction floor.
00:08So did He-Man, $125.
00:12But the former Trump voter isn't sold on either side of politics.
00:17If I had to vote right now, I wouldn't vote left and I wouldn't vote right.
00:22This is Jeffrey the giraffe.
00:24He's disappointed by the Trump administration's treatment of immigrants and a soaring cost of living.
00:30What I expected were lower bills and lower fuel costs, but that's not what we have.
00:37It's a sentiment being echoed across the rural Ohio town of Chillicothe, which Donald Trump won decisively in 2024.
00:45Some who voted for him then are having second thoughts now.
00:48We were told about tariffs that it would be hard at first, the first couple of years.
00:54And then we'd see relief and, you know, I just haven't seen that.
00:57The bar mean the tariffs, you know, because I am a boutique and almost everything does come from China.
01:04Blue collar workers have been particularly hard hit.
01:07The town's lifeblood and old paper mill closed down last year.
01:10A controversial data centre is proposed on its site.
01:14But it's the price of fuel, which many blame on the war in Iran, that's the biggest concern for many.
01:20Compared to two, three years ago, it's almost not worth working right now.
01:24What's happening here in Ohio is playing out across the US.
01:28States that strongly backed Donald Trump just two years ago are now suddenly and unexpectedly in play.
01:34That has put some states like Ohio and Iowa that had really swung pretty hard towards the Republicans in the
01:42Trump era.
01:43They're the ones swinging the hardest back in the other direction.
01:46Chillicothe is considered a bellwether town in a bellwether state.
01:50So what happens here could say a lot about the results in November.
01:54What happens here would the results in November.
01:54Whoo, buddy.
