Cnn
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There are two areas of the Bipartisan agreement on the first days of President Donald Trump in the White House: voters say that he moves quickly to keep promises and that he is much more active and visible than his predecessor.
There is, however, a giant fracture to know if it is fantastic or frightening.
“Trump is daring and thinks big,” is the first title of Betsy Sarcone, a republican voter from the suburbs of monks. “How refreshing it is to have someone who says what it means and can answer questions consistently.”
Milwaukee’s Democratic Boker Baker is on the other side of Trump Divide from America.
“This man is disturbed,” said Baker when Trump’s first week in the White House was taking place. “The president of the” law and order “does not hold the law and the order. … And the problem of immigration has frightened everyone. »»
Linda Rooney somehow represents common ground, if there is such a thing about Trump.
“On the one hand, I am happy that he cleanses the Mess Biden on the left, both at the national and foreign level,” said Rooney, who heads a consulting company in the suburbs of the Philadelphia media. “But I want him to use more discernment. All people on January 6 should not have been gracked. It was an attack on our democracy and elected leadership. »»
Rooney, Baker and Sarcone are among nearly 100 voters who were part of our “Tour on the map” projectAn effort to follow the 2024 campaign through the eyes and experiences of voters who live in swing states or are part of the critical voting districts. Now, while Trump is getting ready quickly, these voters will help us follow the public feeling of the new administration, especially if the president loses his support among those who voted for him or perhaps obtain the support of those who opposed to him.
Our first check suggests that their opinions during the campaign stand largely, with a few first markers to look at.
Rooney, for example, voted for Trump, then Biden, then Trump, and the suburban voters as she will be critical of 2028.
“I was optimistic about hope after the elections, but I think he is like a bull in the China store,” said Rooney in an exchange of text. “Or whether he uses a hammer where finer instruments are called.”
However, it is mainly in line with Trump promises to reduce taxes and reduce regulations.
Rooney was a primary voter of Nikki Haley who finally settled on Trump because she believed that the president of the time, Kamala Harris, was too liberal and was not ready for the presidency.
Those who had been with Trump from the start are exalted by its occupied and provocative beginnings.
“President Trump is lasting,” said Tamara Varga, a small republican business woman in Tucson. “I think it was very transparent and it is a breath of fresh air.”
Kristin Caparra, Trump consultant and voter of the suburbs of Philadelphia of Drexel Hill, praised the rapid confirmation of the Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump efforts to challenge the citizenship of the right of birth.
And it was struck by the energy level changed in the White House.
“The American people have heard more of this president in the first 48 hours than they heard Joe Biden in the past two years,” said Caparra.
Debbie Katsanos, a supporter of New Hampshire Trump, was more nuanced than many Hardcore supporters of Trump on January 6. She said that she thought that many convicted people had been accused of more serious offenses than they deserved. However, she also said: “Anyone rightly sentenced to real violence” deserved to be punished if her sentence was right.
But she said that President Joe Biden Pardons of the last day made any continuous debate on the scope of Trump’s decision.
“If you want to talk about mistreating the pardon system, let’s talk about the 11th time of President Biden,” said Katsanos.
Chris Mudd, a supporter of Trump who has a solar energy company in Waterloo, in Iowa, was both complementary to Trump’s first movements and francs that he will probably have to bite his language sometimes.
“I like what I see so far,” said Mudd in an exchange of text. “End of Dei is good. I like the pardons for the J6ers. I don’t think I would like everything, but you have to take the good with the least well.
Andrew Konchek judges Trump in a similar way. He sometimes bristles the president’s tone and does not agree with him about abortion rights and when he calls climate change a hoax.
Konchek is a commercial fisherman, and on the first day, Trump held the promise that won Konchek’s vote: cancel the federal approval of offshore wind farms off the coast of New England.
“Donald Trump already delivers,” Konchek said.
This truth alarms Trump’s criticism.
“The decisions he made, in particular with regard to LGBTQ + rights and racial equity, looked like a step back,” said Melissa Cordero, an Air Force veteran who lives in Tucson.
David Moore, a republican registered but criticizes Trump, saw nothing in Trump’s first actions.
“The peaceful transfer of power is so important and forgiven those who would have had otherwise goes against a large part of what makes the United States special,” said Moore, who directs commercial steps in the West From the American-Mexican border to Nogales, Arizona. “Immigration policies are terrible. Giving the permission of ice to make a descent and places where worship is absolute fear. »»
Tonya Rincon, a recently retired car worker from the Detroit suburbs, called the “lazy and a slap and a slap in the police”. His biggest complaint, however, was Trump who made Biden’s steps go back to extend access to health care and reduce prescription medication costs. “All this will make it more difficult for the most necessary Americans to access basic health care,” said Rincon.
Joan London, a Reagan curator who changed his recording of Pennsylvania voters in Independent because of Trump, predicted that many of his new initiatives would be linked to judicial battles for years.
London, a lawyer, also called into question Trump’s pardons on January 6.
“I support blue and I thought it was the conservative way,” said London.
Likewise, Antonio Munoz, a retired police officer of Las Vegas, said: “Trump talks about the application of the law, but he forgave people who cause violence against the officers.”
Yes, said Munoz, Trump was speaking.
“All we can do is wait and see,” said Munoz. “We all know that deporting all immigrants is impossible and harming laws that respect the laws and the economy.”