Former Democrat stronghold battling poverty and fentanyl backs President Trump

[Diogenes]

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Jose Benavidez stood on the porch of his trailer and said he voted for Donald Trump because he had "nothing to lose."

The 49-year-old car mechanic trusts that President Trump can ease poverty and a fentanyl crisis in Socorro and its surrounding county of the same name, which this month backed a Republican presidential candidate for the first time in 36 years.

It's a sentiment heard elsewhere in working-class neighborhoods, where President Trump made some of his biggest gains.

Trump's 3-point win in Socorro, which is 50% Hispanic and 15% Native American,, is emblematic of inroads the Republican made in formerly Democrat-dominated counties with high poverty levels and those with large Hispanic or Native American populations.

Socorro is among the U.S. counties that have been stuck in high levels of poverty for at least three decades, its population shrinking 5% since 2019 as residents sought work elsewhere, according to the U.S. Census. Its drug overdose death rate is approaching twice the national average and about a third of people live in poverty.

Sitting in the town's main plaza, former Democrat voter David Chavez said "People feel disaffected".

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[Matt Dillon]

They know..it's going to take a lot of work to undo what the Democrats and RINOs have been doing.
People are ready to try their best to, and that's better than has been for a long time in America.

 

[Diogenes]

They know..it's going to take a lot of work to undo what the Democrats and RINOs have been doing.
People are ready to try their best to, and that's better than has been for a long time in America.

We'd better get a handle on election fraud.

Democrats are still counting ballots as we speak. The election was over 2 weeks ago.