Taylaura Siggers, 21, student, Cleveland, Ohio hillary clinton

“Once people know that people care, then they’ll start caring. Everything has a ripple eﬀect. At the Boys and Girls Club, I’ve seen people come in the door and they were so horrible at school or they had a bad attitude, but just by being here a couple of weeks they changed, they started getting better grades at school. It’s something that happens on the daily. If Trump wins, the next four years will look like hell. It will probably be the worst four years ever. I can just see more people being in poverty. Because I know a lot of people survive on, you know, the state—welfare, food stamps, stuﬀ like that. I can see all that being cut out. People got to ﬁght for scraps. I can just see it all. I would be really devastated.”

Joseph Herriott V, 20, student, Cleveland, Ohio hillary clinton

“I think we really, really need to touch on the police brutality in America. I do not think President Obama’s been vocal enough. Police have to earn the meaning behind their name. When I think of police now, I don’t think of protection, and most people around here don’t. I can be in a car with my friends and they see police and they get nervous. Like I said, we’re getting senselessly killed. So if I don’t think you’re going to protect me I’m not going to feel safe even calling you. I would just say to the next President, ‘Show the neighborhood that you care.’ People feel that, whoever gets in the White House, they’ve never been in our type of community, so they’re not going to do anything to help us anyway.”

Valerie Potts, 54, unemployed, Neillsville, Wisconsin donald trump

“I recently got laid off at the sand plant where I was a lab technician. I’m leaning toward Trump. If it comes right down to it, I think he says what’s on his mind. He doesn’t remind me of an actor who’s up there reading off a card. Sometimes it gets him into trouble, and sometimes it isn’t the best thing, but I do like that he isn’t filtered. I think she’s a paid politician. I just want someone who can be down to earth and try to make a difference instead of, pardon my language, pussyfooting around. Everybody promises different things. But I think he would give it a more honest try. Try to keep things focussed in the United States. At fifty-four years old, I don’t really want to go back to hard factory work and night shifts again. That’s what’s the hardest—starting all over.”