Few things have appeared to test the bond between Trump and the South, a political coupling of a thrice-married New Yorker and voters in the Bible Belt that seemed unlikely from the start. Trump does the four things those voters love, rally attendees said: He wins, regardless of how fungible the definition of winning may be. At a rally in the spring, Trump called Tennessee the “home of hardworking American patriots,” an assertion met with cheers. At the rally in Tennessee, Pam Rutherford, 57, from Jonesboro, said she thought the news media had played up the issue. Seeing the reality-television star as a fellow traveller was a theme for one voter after another at Trump’s Southern rallies.

Source: thestar October 15, 2018 02:06 UTC