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struggle4progress

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Sun Feb 26, 2017, 05:07 PM Feb 2017

Great expectations

Joshua Hafner and Susan Page, USA TODAY 1:07 p.m. ET Feb. 26, 2017

... USA TODAY's Trump Voter Panel ... remain overwhelmingly supportive of the new president: 24 of the 25 approve of the job he's doing; one who initially approved is now undecided ...

"I’m 88. I won’t be around much longer. He’ll be the last president I see in my life. I have five (children): two boys, three girls. I hope he doesn’t screw up the value of money. They’re all in good jobs. They’re retired or close to retired. So they’re off a lot better than I was, as long as the market holds up and all that. I don’t want him to drain the swamp. I just want him to get it back to where it used to be" ...

"I'm a Vietnam-era veteran of the Air Force, and I get my health care through the VA. It's got problems. The wait-list time is astronomical now. To get to the next appointment, it might take you five months. I twisted my knee in November. I got seen in the last part of December, and I got a shot then into my knee. It wore off about a month ago, and my new shot is going to be given in the first week of March. That's the earliest they could get me in. So right now, I'm in a lot of pain. How long does it take to give a shot?" ...

"I feel the country is more divided than ever. I feel the president wants to unite the country, to see people proud to be Americans. I feel there has been more race issues in the last eight years than I have witnessed before. I feel we need to be united. The other issue that affects me as a paramedic is the Affordable Care Act. The people that I take care of say there is nothing affordable about it. I feel changes must be made now to fix this problem so Americans have less fear about their health care" ...


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/02/26/trump-supporters-economy-health-care-taxes-president/97738362/

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