"He's doing so much at once - from deep cuts to securing the border. It's almost hard to keep up," laughs Erin Decker on the phone from Kenosha, Wisconsin.
It's clear that Decker, who is a graphic designer and runs an auto repair shop with her husband, is pleased. On a personal level, she says the main thing she notices from Trump's presidency is that prices are coming down.
Food is getting cheaper - and gasoline. Pension savings are getting stronger and mortgage interest rates are going in the right direction, which is good for my daughter who is looking for a house.
Vaccines and bombs
Lori Viars, a conservative campaign strategist living in Lebanon, Ohio, agrees.
"The year has been marked by common sense and progress. Crime is down and the military is stronger. I feel safer," she says.
And the president has done a lot of good things that I hadn't even thought of, like letting Bobby (Robert F.) Kennedy change the vaccine program. I'm very pleased.
The women say that most people around them believe that the country is now developing in the right direction and both applaud the president's actions globally. Decker believes that the capture of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and the summer bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities have made both the United States and the countries involved safer. Viars describes the release of the hostage held by terrorist group Hamas in Gaza as "wonderful."
But Erin Decker notes that the United States is politically divided.
Democrats are against everything Trump does, even when ICE arrests criminals. Who wants pedophiles and murderers on the streets?
She has a handful of Democratic friends in Kenosha. The relationships last as long as they don't talk politics, she says.
Victory this fall?
However, not everything Trump does is welcomed with open arms by the women. Decker is frustrated that the deep cuts to the state apparatus have stalled. Viars gets upset when Trump calls opponents nicknames or is overly rude.
He said some bad things recently when a Hollywood figure died, it would have been better if he hadn't said them.
In 2026, she “just wants more” of a Trump presidency and the good morals she claims it brings. Erin Decker hopes that Republicans retain control of both houses of Congress in the November midterm elections.
This is so that the Democrats don't come in and impeach Trump and try to stop all the good he's doing.
