Trump was nearly killed in their small town. Now they grapple with politics, grief and anger

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

85% : We're just mostly good country people, and there is such a love of Trump here.
79% : "You did a great job," Trump said.
57% : "Those are the things Butler County residents believe are embodied by Trump.
57% : Sarver also believes Trump would be better for employment and inflation rates, as well as gas prices.
48% : She voted for Trump in 2016, she said, because of his stricter policies on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border.
46% : He saw Secret Service agents pounce on Trump and then the former president stand back up, raising a fist into the air in what Longo could describe only as an act of "triumphant defiance.""It's going to go down as one of the most iconic images of the last century and perhaps in all of American history," he said.
43% : "Bocci has voted Republican ever since and is planning to vote for Trump for the third time this fall.
42% : Bennetti said she supports Trump because she believes he doesn't have "hands in his pockets" and isn't as influenced by lobbyists and big corporations.
38% : Trump has taken credit for selecting the Supreme Court justices who ended the landmark decision that gave women the right to abortion.
30% : "With Trump, he was a businessman and it was hard-core business, and people hated him," she said.
26% : Bocci burst into tears after seeing Trump get shot and his motorcade race down her street as first responders transported the former president to a hospital.
21% : "I blame the media," said Cheryl Gunther, vice chair of the United Republicans of Butler County political action committee, who was volunteering at the rally when Trump was shot.
20% : The people of Butler County know the events of that day could have been much worse, with a would-be assassin getting so close to killing Trump and upending the nation.
20% : "I don't think any community would hope to be known for an assassination," said Donald Shearer, a Republican City Council member in Butler who hasn't decided whether he will support President Biden or Trump.
20% : She thinks news outlets have unfairly associated Trump with white supremacists and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.
19% : "Trump has been indicted, he's been impeached and he's crooked.

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