Former Democrats in Ohio Have No Regrets a Year After Voting Trump

Former Democrats in Ohio Have No Regrets a Year After Voting Trump
Supporter Geno DiFabio (R) speaks alongside US President Donald Trump during a Make America Great Again rally at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, Ohio, July 25, 2017. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images
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A panel of former Democrats from Youngstown, Ohio, shared their views with CNN one year after they switched parties to vote for President Donald Trump.

Some 7,000 people switched party affiliations, from Democrat to Republican, in Youngstown last year. The locale may have something to do with it: closed factories dot the landscape and the local population has dropped by two-thirds since the 1950s.

Ivan Pentchoukov
Ivan Pentchoukov
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Ivan is the national editor of The Epoch Times. He has reported for The Epoch Times on a variety of topics since 2011.
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