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White trash rednecks who voted for Trump are turning against him. Why? He lied to them, they believed his lies, and now his real intentions have become clear to them and they're hurting economically. Dumb rednecks of America are waking up to their own stupidity. They can't eat his fake superficial patriotism. They can't eat his fake bigoted religiosity. They can't eat the migrants and immigrants he is persecuting (unless they turn to cannibals, which is not that far off the mark)... They can't eat his tariffs which are making them lose their jobs. They can't eat his ballroom or his changing the names of everything into his. No jobs, and their kitchen tables are empty.
In Texas, a dumb redneck Latino voted for Trump, but now says "he didn't think" [dumb Texans rarely think] that Trump's persecution of Latinos would be "that hard" as to deprive him of his construction workers. Did the moron think that Trump was going to persecute a few but not many migrants? Is it the numbers that bother him or the principle? It must be the numbers because now that he is losing money, he is changing his mind on Trump. How patriotic! How stupid! How egoistic! Those who voted for Trump and are now regretting it are as guilty as him for wrecking the country and their livelihoods.
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A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
JOSH BOAK
Updated Sat, October 3, 2026
UAW Local 402 member Kyle Bos, right, has beer with Hal "Tank" Dunithan, left, and fellow UAW Local 402 members at Fricker's restaurant and bar in Springfield, Ohio, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, on old Navistar's last day at its Springfield plant. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sipping tea from beer mugs with his coworkers, Kyle Bos listed the ways his life is changing.
Bos has two daughters, with a third due in January. At the grocery store, five items cost as much as a full cart once did. And on Wednesday, Bos and nearly 1,400 other people were laid off from their jobs at what had been the Navistar truck factory in southwestern Ohio.
The layoffs — occurring just three days before Donald Trump's rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio area. And they are one reason why Bos, 30, plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats.
A gut punch in Ohio: Nearly 1,400 laid off at truck factory just days before Trump rally
JOSH BOAK
Updated Sat, October 3, 2026
UAW Local 402 member Kyle Bos, right, has beer with Hal "Tank" Dunithan, left, and fellow UAW Local 402 members at Fricker's restaurant and bar in Springfield, Ohio, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026, on old Navistar's last day at its Springfield plant. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sipping tea from beer mugs with his coworkers, Kyle Bos listed the ways his life is changing.
Bos has two daughters, with a third due in January. At the grocery store, five items cost as much as a full cart once did. And on Wednesday, Bos and nearly 1,400 other people were laid off from their jobs at what had been the Navistar truck factory in southwestern Ohio.
The layoffs — occurring just three days before Donald Trump's rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio area. And they are one reason why Bos, 30, plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats.
Asked how many times he had voted for Trump, Bos held up three tattooed fingers. Voting records show he voted twice, though Bos insists he voted for Trump in 2024, 2020 and 2016.
But he said he's done with the president.
"Something has to change politically in this country," said Bos, a member of the United Auto Workers who identifies as a centrist.
"Seems like it just kept getting worse and worse and worse," he said.
Trump campaigned in this area on Saturday.
This year's election is a test for the working-class coalition that lifted Trump into the White House and gave majorities to Republicans in the House and Senate. The outcome will be decided in places like Dayton, which once sprouted factories but shed about half of its 90,000 factory jobs since 1990 after the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade with China made it cheaper to buy auto parts from abroad.
Trump's blunt talk and status as a celebrity businessman initially helped him around Dayton, where voters sensed that politics as usual had failed them. But voters this year are disgruntled about inflation and the war in Iran.
An Ohio race could help determine control of the Senate. Republican Sen. Jon Husted is facing a challenge from former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who is trying to harness that disenchantment as he attempts a comeback two years after losing his seat.
Americans increasingly blame Trump for the high cost of living with just 17% approving of his handling of the issue. Trump didn't talk about grocery prices or gas prices or layoffs at his Saturday night rally in Vandalia, part of what he says will be a 32-day marathon of rallies to try to convince the public that the economy is better than they think.
"The fake news media, they refuse to talk about our record-setting numbers. So tonight, if you don't mind, I'm going to do it myself," he told the rally.
Trump has largely sneered at concerns about affordability, but he is promising to give people $5,000 checks if Republicans win the House and Senate next month— something Bos said he found offensive.
"It feels like a bribe, a slap in the face, and, like, that we're all ignorant," Bos said.
When factory work moved abroad, Republicans gained traction
In the 1990s, as steady paychecks vanished, drug addiction and crime increased. Things seemed to hit bottom after the 2008 financial crisis, prompting Phil Plummer — who was then Montgomery County Sheriff — to enter politics.
"My jail was 40% drug addicts, 50% mental health patients, 10% criminals," said Plummer, the Montgomery County GOP chairman who has been a Republican state representative since 2019. "We got it upside down — that's what drove me to the state house."
Plummer is now on the ballot for the Ohio state Senate and said he thinks Trump is what keeps the GOP's coalition of businesses and working-class families together.
In recent years, the local economy has improved as the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base steadily added government workers. The base has drawn new aerospace companies to the area such as Joby Aviation, Electra and the Sierra Nevada Corporation.
"In economic development, it takes time, and you have got to give it a little bit of time to bake, and then once it does, then you're going to have something special," said Jeff Hoagland, CEO of the Dayton Development Coalition.
This year's election is a test for the working-class coalition that lifted Trump into the White House and gave majorities to Republicans in the House and Senate. The outcome will be decided in places like Dayton, which once sprouted factories but shed about half of its 90,000 factory jobs since 1990 after the North American Free Trade Agreement and trade with China made it cheaper to buy auto parts from abroad.
Trump's blunt talk and status as a celebrity businessman initially helped him around Dayton, where voters sensed that politics as usual had failed them. But voters this year are disgruntled about inflation and the war in Iran.
An Ohio race could help determine control of the Senate. Republican Sen. Jon Husted is facing a challenge from former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who is trying to harness that disenchantment as he attempts a comeback two years after losing his seat.
Americans increasingly blame Trump for the high cost of living with just 17% approving of his handling of the issue. Trump didn't talk about grocery prices or gas prices or layoffs at his Saturday night rally in Vandalia, part of what he says will be a 32-day marathon of rallies to try to convince the public that the economy is better than they think.
"The fake news media, they refuse to talk about our record-setting numbers. So tonight, if you don't mind, I'm going to do it myself," he told the rally.
Trump has largely sneered at concerns about affordability, but he is promising to give people $5,000 checks if Republicans win the House and Senate next month— something Bos said he found offensive.
"It feels like a bribe, a slap in the face, and, like, that we're all ignorant," Bos said.
When factory work moved abroad, Republicans gained traction
In the 1990s, as steady paychecks vanished, drug addiction and crime increased. Things seemed to hit bottom after the 2008 financial crisis, prompting Phil Plummer — who was then Montgomery County Sheriff — to enter politics.
"My jail was 40% drug addicts, 50% mental health patients, 10% criminals," said Plummer, the Montgomery County GOP chairman who has been a Republican state representative since 2019. "We got it upside down — that's what drove me to the state house."
Plummer is now on the ballot for the Ohio state Senate and said he thinks Trump is what keeps the GOP's coalition of businesses and working-class families together.
In recent years, the local economy has improved as the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base steadily added government workers. The base has drawn new aerospace companies to the area such as Joby Aviation, Electra and the Sierra Nevada Corporation.
"In economic development, it takes time, and you have got to give it a little bit of time to bake, and then once it does, then you're going to have something special," said Jeff Hoagland, CEO of the Dayton Development Coalition.
No tax on overtime doesn't help these factory workers.
Trump pointed to the $850 million investment by aircraft maker Electra — along with a new project in Ohio from Stellantis and a Friday announcement from Bayer for a $2.2 billion drug plant near Columbus — as evidence his policies were creating jobs.
But at the former Navistar plant, Trump's broad tariffs never boosted demand and the plant's former owner, International Motors, chose to offload the facility.
Trump's major legislative achievement — the One Big, Beautiful Bill — contributed little to people's take-home pay, even as it temporarily stripped taxes from tips and overtime.
"We weren't getting a lot of overtime because of the economy," said Marianne Donnelly, who drove a forklift at the factory. "There just wasn't any to be had, very little to be had."
Laid-off workers like Donnelly say they expect to be rehired in six to 12 months by Roshel, a Canadian manufacturer of armored vehicles, which is buying the plant. Roshel said in a statement that it's "working with everyone involved not only to protect the current workforce, but to more than double it over the coming years through a phased process."
Laid-off workers are looking for hope
On the Monday before the layoffs, Morgan Hughes and JoJo Burkhard were knocking on doors in Kettering, a Dayton suburb. They were trying to convince union members and retirees to vote for Democrats.
The Navistar job had helped Hughes, 35, buy a house at age 21 and work alongside her father. Burkhard said inflation had made it easier to swing voters to their side.
"It isn't a hard pitch at all," she said. "And even if they don't want to stay Democratic long term, they'll at least give the candidates a chance this election, which could be a turning point for us."
After a morning of talking to voters, the pair settled down at a Chinese restaurant for some potstickers and the weight of the week hit them.
Burkhard cracked open a fortune cookie and tears began to well up. The layoffs meant no work for her, her boyfriend and her mother — and the words in small print almost seemed prophetic.
Her fortune read: "You'll find your inner strength to overcome challenges."
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This story was first published on Oct. 3, 2026. It was published again on Oct. 5, 2026, to make clear that while Kyle Bos insists he voted for Donald Trump for president three times, voting records show he voted twice.
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AP writer Seung Min Kim in Vandalia, Ohio, contributed to this report.
Trump pointed to the $850 million investment by aircraft maker Electra — along with a new project in Ohio from Stellantis and a Friday announcement from Bayer for a $2.2 billion drug plant near Columbus — as evidence his policies were creating jobs.
But at the former Navistar plant, Trump's broad tariffs never boosted demand and the plant's former owner, International Motors, chose to offload the facility.
Trump's major legislative achievement — the One Big, Beautiful Bill — contributed little to people's take-home pay, even as it temporarily stripped taxes from tips and overtime.
"We weren't getting a lot of overtime because of the economy," said Marianne Donnelly, who drove a forklift at the factory. "There just wasn't any to be had, very little to be had."
Laid-off workers like Donnelly say they expect to be rehired in six to 12 months by Roshel, a Canadian manufacturer of armored vehicles, which is buying the plant. Roshel said in a statement that it's "working with everyone involved not only to protect the current workforce, but to more than double it over the coming years through a phased process."
Laid-off workers are looking for hope
On the Monday before the layoffs, Morgan Hughes and JoJo Burkhard were knocking on doors in Kettering, a Dayton suburb. They were trying to convince union members and retirees to vote for Democrats.
The Navistar job had helped Hughes, 35, buy a house at age 21 and work alongside her father. Burkhard said inflation had made it easier to swing voters to their side.
"It isn't a hard pitch at all," she said. "And even if they don't want to stay Democratic long term, they'll at least give the candidates a chance this election, which could be a turning point for us."
After a morning of talking to voters, the pair settled down at a Chinese restaurant for some potstickers and the weight of the week hit them.
Burkhard cracked open a fortune cookie and tears began to well up. The layoffs meant no work for her, her boyfriend and her mother — and the words in small print almost seemed prophetic.
Her fortune read: "You'll find your inner strength to overcome challenges."
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This story was first published on Oct. 3, 2026. It was published again on Oct. 5, 2026, to make clear that while Kyle Bos insists he voted for Donald Trump for president three times, voting records show he voted twice.
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AP writer Seung Min Kim in Vandalia, Ohio, contributed to this report.
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Trump Supporter Stunned as MAGA Crackdown Wrecks His Business
Martha McHardy
Wed, October 7, 2026
Eric Lee / REUTERS
David Reyna thought Donald Trump's return to the White House would lower costs and secure the border. Instead, the president's immigration crackdown is hurting his businesses.
Trump made immigration enforcement a centerpiece of his 2024 campaign, promising the "largest deportation" effort in U.S. history, pledging to close the border, and moving to restrict birthright citizenship.
But those policies are now hurting the very voters that supported them in the first place, and that could spell disaster for the GOP come the November midterms.
A sharp surge in immigration arrests is removing undocumented workers from industries that rely heavily on their labor.
Construction projects are slowing because of worker shortages, and shrimping operations along the Gulf Coast are also feeling the squeeze. Meanwhile, new restrictions on commercial driver's licenses for some immigrants have compounded the pressure on an already strained trucking industry.
Reyna is one of the business owners affected.
The 50-year-old Texas businessman runs a lumber yard and a real estate operation in the Rio Grande Valley. Both have slowed sharply. A home he was building has also sat unfinished for months.
"We didn't think this administration was going to crack down on undocumented workers that hard," Reyna told the Washington Post. The enforcement push, he added, is "completely devastating the local construction industry."
Reyna was among the Latino voters who helped Trump turn the heavily Democratic Rio Grande Valley red in 2024, ending a Democratic presidential winning streak that dated to 1896.
He backed Trump in part because of promises to lower living costs, cut taxes, and secure the border. Reyna also said he had personally seen migrants crossing near his gated ranch.
"The borders were wide open" under Joe Biden, he said, "and we saw what that meant firsthand."
But the immigration crackdown has changed his view.
Reyna knew Trump had promised mass deportations, but said he never expected enforcement to sweep up people without criminal records.
ICE arrests in South Texas rose from about 400 in 2024 to more than 9,000 so far in 2026, according to a Washington Post analysis. Nearly 80 percent of those arrested by the agency's Harlingen field office had no criminal records.
"I don't think anybody saw that coming," Reyna said. [The imbecile did not see that Trump was a criminal white supremacist whose character was shaped in the sewers and who lies and cheats like he breathes]
And he is not alone in his frustration.
Laura Leigh Taylor, a 37-year-old Georgia farmer, backed Trump in 2024. But after watching the immigration crackdown reach people she knows, she now regrets her vote.
"I understand getting rid of the rapists and the murderers," she told the Associated Press this week. "But all the people that fell in between that really weren't doing nothing but taking care of their family."
Meanwhile, a new Associated Press-KFF survey of more than 2,000 rural voters, a group that largely backed Trump in 2024, found that four in 10 now say Trump has "gone too far" in restricting legal immigration or deporting immigrants living in the U.S. without authorization.
Trump has sought to justify the crackdown, arguing that undocumented immigration drives down wages for American workers.
But Texas supporters like Reyna say that Americans are not filling the gaps left behind, and that wages remain low.
"It's easy to see a lot of jobsites aren't moving the way they normally do," Reyna said.
Construction payrolls in the Brownsville-Harlingen area have fallen 5 percent from a year ago, while Cameron County's labor force has shrunk nearly 2 percent, according to a Washington Post analysis of federal data.
And as the arrests continue, they are increasingly becoming a political issue for the GOP ahead of the midterms.
A Cook Political Report-TelevisaUnivision poll found more than one-fifth of Hispanic Trump voters in Texas would not back a generic Republican House candidate. Nearly two-thirds of Hispanic voters said Trump's deportation policies would make them less likely to support a candidate.
"The whole valley was red," Reyna told the Washington Post, "and now it's going to be blue."
The Daily Beast has contacted the White House for comment.
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