In a new video, CNN Reporter Elle Reeve asked voters in South Dakota if they voted for Trump and if they regretted their vote in 2024. She also pressed them on how the tariffs were affecting them and their community.
“I was expecting the lower cost of a lot of just your everyday living things, and hoping that he would make things better for everybody in America, because that’s what we need. Groceries are already outrageous, and then we put the tariffs on across the seas or whatever, like China, all that. It just makes everything more expensive for everybody,” Jamie Baysinger told CNN. She voted for Trump but isn’t loving the current economy.
Another Resident of the “Mount Rushmore State” Reeve spoke with is Becky Hofer. She is a democrat, and her husband is a republican. “Everybody’s nervous. People are making different decisions for different reasons. But, you know, some of it’s hesitation, some of it’s actual price changes. Everybody just wants some stability right now.”
“You know, as we’ve talked about, you’re in a really conservative area, a very pro-trump area. Like, do you feel frustrated in trying to talk to your neighbors about what’s going on?” Reeve questioned.
“The biggest thing that frustrates me is that I just feel like nobody cares right now until it affects them, and i don’t understand how they don’t see that,” Hofer said. “They’re not dumb. These people aren’t dumb, and they’re not unkind people and selfish people and thoughtless people. So I don’t understand. why they’re okay with [the tariffs].”
Reeve did find some Trump strongholds, including Doug Bjorke, who believes Trump’s plan will work. “Yeah, the price might come down, but when the people start starving, they’re going to come back to the table.”
“You mean in the other countries?” Reeve asked.
“Yeah, we’re a gracious, gracious nation feeding the world, and we shouldn’t have to without getting something for it.”
Some farmers, however, are still feeling the pain of tariffs. Reeve met with a cattle farmer Rick Eckmann, who told Reeve “In the three days after the tariffs, cattle futures dropped below the point of breakeven for his farm.”
Eckmann, who did not vote for Trump, said, “To get to where he’s at today, he’s stepped on people and he’s got no morals, I don’t think. I don’t like the man. I don’t like him.”
Source: Raw Story / Digpu NewsTex