In small swing-state Nevada metropolis, voters divided on presidential consequence

MESQUITE, Nev. — A return to workplace for ex-President Donald Trump will encourage two voters right here to ditch America for Europe, the seniors informed The Put up. However a younger first-time voter vows to robust it out ought to Vice President Kamala Harris take the highest job.

Cynthia Stowell and Ron Johnson sat exterior certainly one of two polling locations on this metropolis of 23,000 in northeast Clark County, the place seven out of 10 swing-state Nevada voters reside, and stated they each voted for Harris. Johnson stated he’d voted early by mail, whereas Stowell had simply completed casting a poll.

“I believe Trump is a prison. I don’t need a prison answerable for my nation,” Stowell stated. Johnson praised the veep as standing “for the issues that we imagine in, each her financial insurance policies that she’s desiring to enact . . . and the way in which she initiatives positivity as a substitute of negativity.”

Ought to Trump return to workplace, Stowell stated, “I’m transferring to Portugal.” Johnson agreed, saying, “I’m going the place she goes.” Trump would “institute horrible insurance policies and switch People towards one another and take out his retribution that he’s speaking about, and I don’t need any a part of that.”

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Ashley Dean, 20, a Utah Tech College pupil who lives in Las Vegas, stopped in Mesquite to register and vote in her first election. Holding a Trump yard signal and a newly bought Trump T-shirt, she stated it’s her responsibility to forged a poll this yr.

“It was crucial that all of us resolve to vote,” the advertising and marketing main stated. “It doesn’t matter what age we’re at. We have to be knowledgeable and educated. So I made the selection to come back down right this moment and vote.”

She stated border safety tops her record of priorities.

“Our world is so totally different these days, and I believe it’s unsafe for sure issues which might be allowed. And I’ve heard of various circumstances of our border management, which I believe we positively must pay extra consideration to,” she stated. It’s extra in danger for these people who find themselves having all these allegations with the aliens, rapists, and I simply assume that we have to be extra conscious of what’s happening in our nation.”

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Requested whether or not she would depart the US if Harris wins, Dean stated she’d keep and “work tougher.”

“I’m not gonna say that we’re all gonna die, as a result of I don’t assume it’s true. I simply assume it’s truthful that I’ve the correct to say what I need, and if I don’t get what I need, then I’ll nonetheless persevere and do higher.”