Many voters in Millersburg said they supported Trump on the war.
“I think we got to do what we got to do to keep this country safe, so and if it means paying a little bit more in gas right now to keep everybody safe, then that’s what we got to do, and eventually they’ll come back down,” said 52-year-old Kim Schaffner of Dalmatia, who lives just outside the 10th District in Republican Rep. Dan Meuser’s turf.
She said she’ll be showing up at the polls in November and voting Republican.
Jim Matter, 69, of Halifax, where Trump won 75% of the vote in 2024, said he thinks the war with Iran is worth the spike in gas prices.
“Long run, is going to help us out, because if they get nuclear weapons, we might not even be here in a couple years,” he said, adding that he hasn’t fully made up his mind about casting a ballot for Perry in November.
“Wait till it gets closer,’ Matter said, “but I probably will vote for him.”
But not all Trump voters are planning to show up for Perry.
Even some fans of the president — and critics of the Democratic Party — say they aren’t sure they will vote Republican, or vote at all, in the midterms.
Roy Strohecker, 66, said he voted for Trump and backs the war. But, he said, as he pumped gas into a can in the back of his truck, he’s not happy about the cost of fuel going up. A retired farmer, Strohecker is on a fixed income, and he said he has been disappointed that inflation has continued in the year and a half since he voted for Trump over then-President Joe Biden.
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