While it is a solid-blue state, Vermont is still home to Republicans who are loyal to President Donald Trump.
From Delaware — home state of former Vice President and Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden — north to New Jersey and the suburbs of New York and on to Vermont and New England, Democrats can count on heavy support in the 2020 election. And yet, as veteran USA TODAY NETWORK columnist Mike Kelly and visual journalist Chris Pedota found, resilient pockets of Trump supporters persist amid this Democratic landscape.
Handcuffed at the end of Boyden's driveway was Rashid H. Atweh, 23, of nearby Essex. Cops arrested Atweh for destroying Boyden's Trump sign. But Boyden suffers in other ways — two of his three adult daughters no longer speak to him because of his allegiance to Trump. State leaders threw their support behind a dramatic proposal, pushed by Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin, that would give health insurance to all residents and eliminate private health plans. But the idea collapsed when Shumlin felt voters would not stomach the high tax hike needed to pay for the plan.But while Scott is officially a Republican, he is hardly shy about denouncing Trump — or distancing himself from some of his party’s more conservative positions.
“It’s been a phenomenon since the 1960s,” Johnson said. “There are the stereotypes – the new Vermonters who come up to go skiing, buy a second home, smoke pot and eat Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. Then there are the people who have been here for generations who operate small farms and small businesses. They feel they are getting left behind.
“He took over the city and the Democrats stood back dumbfounded,” said Mark Wetmiller, a retired banker-turned-musician who watched in awe — and dismay, too, he conceded — as Sanders transformed his city. A Unitarian Universalist Church with a “Black Lives Matter” sign on its lawn towers over one end of Church Street. Near the other end, on the second floor of an office building, is Sanders’ presidential campaign headquarters where you can buy a T-shirt that proclaims: “College for all.
One such issue that bothers him greatly, LaMarche said, is immigration — but not just the question of bolstering border security. Still, even LaMarche and others says Republicans — especially Trump supporters — have a long way to go before they dominate Vermont politics. "Confiscate the coat," Trump said, according to news reports."It’s about 10 degrees below freezing outside.”
“Frankly, it pissed me off,” said Daudelin, 72, who fought in Vietnam with the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division and then served 27 years as a full-time member of the Vermont National Guard. A turning point came, he said, when close friends announced they were going to a an anti-Trump rally in Burlington. Powell and his wife did not say anything, but afterwards vowed to not hold back their feelings any longer.Perhaps the most famous confrontation between Trump supporters in Vermont and opponents occurred by a flagpole outside the home of Gus and Annmarie Klein on Burlington’s north side.
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