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Do you want to "get even" or do you want to "progress forward"?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/four-years-getting-even-voters-130023612.html
‘Four years of getting even’: voters in former Trump stronghold mixed on possible second term

From the farm where he retired in the Pennsylvania countryside, Roger Williams has been keeping up with the latest news about his preferred presidential candidate, Donald Trump – including the comments he has made about wanting “to be a dictator for one day”.

“For one day – don’t get it twisted,” Williams, 67, replied when asked about the comment that amplified fears that Trump, if successful in his campaign to return to the White House in next year’s election, would take steps to dismantle US democratic institutions.

“He wanted to put his foot down and dictate some things that needed to get done. That’s what he meant,” Williams said as he sat at 4th Street Pub in West Hazleton, a town in Pennsylvania’s north-eastern Luzerne county that was key to Trump winning the state and the presidency overall.

In the seven years since Trump transformed the Republican party with his 2016 election victory, Americans have grown used to him saying brash, strange and insulting things in public, but the comments he made about wanting to be a dictator have landed differently.

Polls show the former president is the overwhelming frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination next year, even though he is facing federal charges for his well-documented attempt to overturn the 2020 election, when voters rejected his bid for a second term and replaced him with Joe Biden.

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