Residents of 'very purple' Berwick just try to get along

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : "It feels like the stakes are a lot higher than they were in previous years," he said. 2016 presidential election results: Trump (R) 52% to Clinton (D) 38% 2020 presidential election results: Trump (R) 51% to Biden (D) 45% 2022 gubernatorial election results: Mills (D) 48.9% to LePage (R) 48.77% (difference of 5 votes) Registered voters: 5,347 Breakdown of voters: 1,542 Democrats (29%), 1,572 Republicans (29%) and 2,092 unenrolled (39%) Facts: Shares a border with Somersworth, New Hampshire.
63% : In 2020, Trump won Berwick 51% to Joe Biden's 45%.
57% : In 2020, Biden made inroads in parts of Maine that had supported Trump in 2016, flipping some coastal towns as well as communities along the New Hampshire border.
56% : "Trump has already been president, and he's a businessman," Davis said.
55% : Or will Trump retain his lead in Berwick and other towns he won in 2020? Mainers are known for being independent thinkers, and that's certainly true in Berwick.
48% : Despite his own reservations, Gannarelli plans to vote for Trump because it's really the personnel in an administration that have the greatest impact, and not the president, he said.
36% : " Gannarelli said he knows some Republicans have soured on Trump -- his wife doesn't plan to vote at all this year, he said.
33% : And, while Davis is quick to say she doesn't like the former president, she plans to vote for Trump anyway, "under duress.
33% : " Brent Williams says his opposition to abortion is one reason he is supporting Trump.
25% : "He doesn't really talk about the issues," Gannarelli said of Trump.
20% : Trump is "unfit" to run the country, Hatch said, and she thinks women should have the right to make up their own minds about abortion -- "It's your business and not anybody else's" -- while Trump supports the rights of states to impose restrictions.

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