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The Reason They Support Trump Isn’t About Trump

The Reason They Support Trump Isn’t About Trump
President Donald Trump speaks at the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Feb. 6, 2020. Nicholas Kamm/AFP via Getty Images
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WESTBY, Wisconsin—Spend any time with people who supported presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016 and you quickly find out that the reasons they voted for Trump had very little to do with him.

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.
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