Testing time: Trump's blue-collar voters want quick proof promises will be kept

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

71% : They saw that with Reagan, and I think they saw it again with Trump.
65% : "That love powers his politics and his belief that Donald Trump back in the White House is his best hope for job security.
62% : "Trump will be president the next time Konchek leaves port.
54% : Though fishing off Massachusetts this visit, he is a New Hampshire resident who backed Trump in the state's early primary and then again in November, as he did in 2016 and 2020.
53% : "But Lopez the Florist is in one of the precincts Trump won.
51% : But, Stenson said, they are mostly Democrats at heart who will stick with Trump only if he keeps his word.
50% : Dorchester is my home and where my love of politics took root: I was a young, curious witness to kitchen table and VFW hall conversations, often feisty, about Vietnam, Watergate, forced busing in the public schools, racial tensions.
50% : "It's in my blood.
44% : But Konchek's support -- and hope -- for Trump is more personal: The president-elect mentions the fishermen when he comes to New England, and he promises to reverse plans for offshore wind farms that Konchek believes would destroy New England fisheries and his way of life.
41% : Stenson's gut of how the Eire regulars voted:"In favor of Trump.
39% : Not that he always agrees with Trump.
38% : His points of disagreement with Trump include a caustic tone that can offend Konchek, and his wife even more.
35% : And again nine years later when Bill Clinton popped in as part of his effort to sell himself as a different kind of Democrat -- meaning less liberal.
33% : That Trump won two Dorchester precincts was no surprise to Stenson; the Eire is in one of them and walking distance from the other.
32% : "The Green New Deal is the worst deal I have ever heard of," Konchek said.
31% : And Konchek wishes Trump would stop denying the climate crisis he sees every day when searching for lobsters, scallops, cod and more.
29% : He also wishes Trump would leave abortion and other reproductive rights decisions to women.
19% : He is also a registered Republican and perhaps more patient with Trump than are Democrats who voted GOP because they saw Harris as too liberal or out of touch with their blue-collar lives.
16% : So, he disagrees with Trump and those who cry "hoax."

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