What do voters see in Trump? – The popularity of the former US President | DW Documentary

What do voters see in Trump? – The popularity of the former US President | DW Documentary

Donald Trump again what fascinates his supporters and who are they Jasmine Jordan is Young religious and studies political science in Iowa I definitely always felt lonely as a child and so it it’s good to just be around a community of people who had the same belief as me

Jack Gilchrist is the president of a metal fabrication company in New Hampshire he says Donald Trump is better for business I just voted for President Trump feel good about it I feel damn good about it Jus Marquez grew up in Mexico lives in Las Vegas and Like many Latinos wants to

See a strong man in the White House three perspectives three states one goal Donald Trump’s reelection hey you know what not we start our journey into the world of trump supporters at the beginning of the election year in Iowa a state in the middle of the country record low temperatures characterized the first

Caucus of the Republican presidential primary season in the past two elections Donald Trump had trouble gaining the support of young college educated Americans that has changed we meet Jasmine Jordan at the University of Iowa in Iowa City so my dad is a truck driver my mom decided to homeschool me because she

Just felt like I would get a better education you know more focused education too I definitely always felt lonely as a child like many young Trump supporters Jasmine grew up in a very religious family the 20-year-old from Illinois belongs to the generation whose starred into college life was heavily

Influenced by the co9 pandemic one thing I did like about coming to the school was that there wasn’t super um Co regulations and then cuz like I met all these people online who were going to University of Iowa cuz there’s like all these just different chat form

And so what kind of did make it challenging was like I kind of didn’t know you know do since I’m not wearing a mask I approach people who have mass and like it was really hard to like make friends here and then when I went to

Make plans with them on campus like no one wanted to meet up it just depends like the feeling of loneliness from her childhood also dominated the beginning of her college life to know in November of my freshman year I saw I got an email that said Mike Pence

Was coming to campus I was like oh my gosh that’s the coolest thing ever and so yaf ended up being the organization that was hosting him I think he’s one of the most pro-life politicians which I really liked and so it was good to just be around a community of people who had

The same beliefs as me cuz I didn’t really have that back home oh here’s something um that was really cool that I got in the mail I got a Christmas card from Trump and his family so that was super exciting so I never wanted to get into politics

Whatsoever I always felt like it was boring or divisive but then once I became really involved in y I realized how important it was to like stand up for what you believe in Jasmine is one of the young conservative women who have embraced Trump’s politics and her support for Donald Trump is becoming

Increasingly visible during the Iowa caucus she even steps in front of the microphone to advocate for the former president this also makes her many enemies I started you know saying just a whole bunch of hateful things about conservatives and they screenshotted my profile from Instagram and you know sent

To All 800 of those students and then they all started calling me a bigot a white supremacist a Nazi and continuing to say just a whole bunch of hateful things that were very untrue and also just didn’t make sense cuz if I’m black why am I a white supremacist in the

Evening it’s time members of the Republican Party have come together for the caucus I am calling this meeting to order welcome to the Iowa City 5 Precinct and Iowa City 21 Precinct caucus to the the flag of the United States of America and the Republic stand the meeting is now officially open

Jasmine is giving her plea for Trump good evening everyone my name is Jasmine Jordan and I’m resident of Iowa City Iowa I’m here tonight to speak on behalf of the greatest president of our lifetime the only candidate who can beat Joe Biden president Donald J Trump okay

We’re going have a blue one he gave us nearly 300 judges and three great Supreme Court Justices and did more for life than any other president in history he defended Christians from persecution it’s time to finish what we started and make America great again thank you it’s 6:00 a.m. in New Hampshire one

Week later today the Republican Presidential candidate will be voted for here in the northeast of the US Jack Gilchrist is an early bird he tries to eat vegetarian he and his partner exercise a lot and are fans of humidifiers they don’t fit the typical stereotypes of trump voters generally speaking Republicans are more

Uh business oriented um less emotion more prag ISM but that’s not the only reason why the 69-year-old once’s Donald Trump back in the White House I call I was always pro-choice until I saw uh Jackson’s my nam’s sake first born grandson of two um five Monon ultrasound and that boy had a

Personality on his face and I changed my stance to viability of Life maybe we can talk I’m a veteran 22 veterans every day swallow a muzzle and kill themselves and they’re homeless and we’re building hotels for illegals for people that illegally enter the country under some

Bull guys of an amnesty almost all Trump voters believe that a president Donald Trump is so intimidating that no foreign power would dare to provoke him a speed limit I don’t think there would have been any war in Ukraine I don’t think anybody would have gone after Israel no way

His Factory is 30 minutes away Jack took over the family business from his father and now he runs it together with his son in Good Times almost 50 people worked in the metal Processing Company but currently they are only 34 got he can sand down the high spots but then he’s

Got to fill in we’re creating things to do in a sense we’re almost teaching them to not work productively to give them more time on the clock it’s kind of frustrating ja goes to a community center to vote I’m glad you guys can get along absolutely he’s business guy he’s

Going to percolate the economy he’s going to open up oil again what I believe will change if if and when Donald Trump becomes the 47th president of the United States is an invigorated economy opening up petroleum um natural gas fracking for natural gas a very clean fossil fuel I

Think most of the myths have been debunked about what fracking does it’s bad um clean fossil fuels is the best thing we have electric cars aren’t going to make it yet it’s just not their time you can’t force electric cars on people when they can’t charge their cars

Especially in cold weather when you’re dependent on others you’re weak when you’re you’re independent you have strength and strength breeds more strength I just voted for President Trump feel good about it I feel damn good about it next stop just over two weeks later Las Vegas we meet Jus Marquez in his

Favorite restaurant on the Eve of the primary election in Nevada Latinos will play a decisive role in these elections as they are the second largest voting group today almost one in five Americans has Latin American roots and the times when they reliably voted for Democrats

Are over I was born here and then we went back to Mexico and I I spent part of my my youth in Mexico and they came back me celebrating my birthday today with my family is a is a it’s a personal uh event however we always talk about what I

Do has a radio show where he campaigns for Donald Trump in the Mexican American Community the 49-year-old is paid for his political advice and also sells the very first time I met Donald Trump was in 2016 got a call and I say we’re looking for a group of Latino leaders

From across the country to give him conso and to uh Latino Hispanic matters I flew into New York uh we went to Trump Tower on I believe it’s Fifth Avenue and uh I went up to the his office I sat across the the table with him the main

Advice I told him to to go and talk to to Latinos to be open to go to places like this and and and and speak to Hispanics about the real issues the number one second and third place among Hispanics is the economy education and health but also the the

Situation at the border the policy that we have in place right now is allowing for these people to come in and then immediately get ahead of the line from other Latino that were been here for decades they’re being offer social social services that that other don’t get says many Latinos feel the current

Migrants are receiving financial support that rightfully belongs to them and believe they’re suffering because of the newcomers this it’s a topic that regularly discusses on his radio show because Donald Trump is the stronger candidate the people like him he they love him and more and more Latinos are

Liking him too so we’ll see what happens but uh tonight will be a a a kind of like an indication of what the the field is going to look like in the next next months long lines have formed in front of the voting stations on the day of the

Caucus here in the west of the US the favorite is clear Trump all the way we had no Wars when he was our president this state is going to part this country is going to part he we need him cuz he’s the only one that can do and get America back to

Where it belongs because he’s the best he already approved it once he’s going to prove it again if he doesn’t get reelected we will not have a country any longer he knows how to run a country he’s a great leader people see in him somebody who’s not a politician somebody who who uh

Speaks with no filters and and uh with no political correctness and they like that it is still uncertain who will win the presidential election in November but Trump can rely on euphoric supporters who know exactly why they want him as president and are ready to fight for his victory in Joe Biden’s

Camp at least for now there is no sign of this energy

The US presidential election will take place this November and Trump is polling well. What’s his appeal? Why does he remain so popular with voters?

Jasmyn Jordan is a young, black student of political science and international relations at the University of Iowa. In the 1970s, Jack Gilchrist served in the US air force. Now 69, he and his son run a metal fabricating company. Jesus Marquez is in his 40s. He grew up in Mexico and today he has his own radio show. All three are fervent Trump supporters. We went to Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada to meet them and find out why they believe he should be the next president. A report by Ines Pohl.

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