“We are not going back,” declared Kamala Harris at a recent campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, as the US vice-president warned about the “brutally serious” consequences of Donald Trump returning to the White House.
“Not going back to what — when things were better?” asks Kristen Reese, recently laid off from her hospice administrator job and irate about the surging cost of living. “Then where are we going? Further into hell?”
Reese, 43, is “thankful” for President Joe Biden’s work cancelling student debt, but plans to vote for Trump, betting that he will do a better job tackling inflation. “Running the country is a business, and you want a businessman running it or what? I do.”