“This program makes sense,” said Banks, who was placed by the program into a job as a receptionist for a senior nutrition program.<br />“If I lose this job,” she said, “I’ll sit home and die.”<br />Yet she said she might still vote for Trump in 2020.<br />One recent survey found that only 3 percent of Trump voters would vote differently if the election were today (and most<br />of those would vote for third-party candidates; only 1 percent said they would switch to voting for Hillary Clinton).<br />Judy Banks, a 70-year-old struggling to get by, said she voted for Trump because “he was talking about getting rid of those illegals.” But Banks now finds herself shocked<br />that he also has his sights on funds for the Labor Department’s Senior Community Service Employment Program, which is her lifeline.<br />Another Trump supporter in the program, Tarzan Vince, put it this way: “If he’s preaching jobs, why take away jobs?”<br />I came to Trump country to see how voters react as Trump moves from glorious campaign promises to the messier task of governing.<br />“My daughter is taking violin lessons, and my other daughter has a math tutor.”<br />All said they had voted for Trump, and all were bewildered that he wanted to cut funds that channel people into good manufacturing jobs.<br />“Why is building a wall more important than educating people?” asked Billy Hinkle, a Trump voter who is enrolled in a program called Tulsa WorkAdvance<br />that trains mostly unemployed workers to fill well-paying manufacturing jobs.
