Democrats kept calling Trump a fascist, but these Pennsylvania voters thought he could help them pay the bills

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : Anthony Cram, 66, said he voted for Trump because the "world is on fire.
45% : Even though Trump spewed violent and anti-democratic rhetoric, these voters think he can help the economy and their bottom line.
43% : Like many voters, Vernacchio was able to dismiss Trump's often violent and antidemocratic comments because he liked what Trump was promising, and he felt heard on his No. 1 issue.
36% : They heard Trump say incendiary things for eight years, and found his at-times folksy demeanor at odds with the idea he could rule like a dictator.
34% : And plenty of Harris voters at the polls on Tuesday were voting precisely because they took Trump literally.Fabiana Galper, 61, lives in Mount Airy but was born and raised in Argentina.
33% : "People likely reasoned that Trump was president and he didn't rule in that way, so the threat wasn't as immediate as higher prices," Democratic strategist J.J. Balaban said.
33% : Some voters have become desensitized to the outlandishness of Trump.
31% : "Trump is heading toward wanting to be a dictator," said the retired manager at Bell Atlantic, now Verizon.
13% : "His wife, Shannon, added: "And drowning, too."Trump won Pennsylvania by the widest margin since Ronald Reagan and kept Harris to the lowest Democratic margin in Philadelphia in two decades.
13% : Chris Gregas, a hospice chaplain who lives in Pleasantville, N.J. -- a typically solid-blue state that Trump lost by only four points -- said last week that he didn't think Trump would rule in an authoritarian way.
9% : Voters overwhelmingly supported Trump, indicating they didn't see him as a real threat the way Harris' campaign aimed to portray him." READ MORE: Kamala Harris needed to outperform Joe Biden's successes in Philly's suburbs to win Pa.

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