The economic system is the primary difficulty for first time, Gen Z voters who spoke with NBC News at Trump’s rally in Pittsburgh stated this afternoon.
Ryan Jones, 21, stated he helps Trump’s proposal for no taxes on ideas or extra time.
“I’m a giant fan of decreasing taxes personally, and in highschool I labored jobs that I earned cash via ideas. So that might have been in a position to assist me save much more for faculty, and I feel that might have helped me out much more in the long term,” he stated.
Jones, a pupil on the University of Pittsburgh, says his buddies are break up over whom to vote for — a number of his classmates will not be voting for Trump, however his hometown buddies in Butler County are backing him.
Kaeli Bennett, 18, desires of being a house owner and says housing was extra reasonably priced through the Trump administration.
“In the longer term I would like to have the ability to personal a house. And when he was president, the costs have been quite a bit decrease, particularly for homebuyers. And that could be a big difficulty for me. I would like to have the ability to personal my own residence. I would like to have the ability to begin a household at an reasonably priced value,” she stated.
Matthew Lonergan, 19, stated the distinction within the economic system beneath Trump versus Biden is “night time and day.”
Biden and Harris “actually didn’t do something however damage the nation, and Trump did nothing however assist the nation,” he stated.
Another motive Lonergan is voting for Trump is that he sees Trump as extra aligned along with his Catholic religion. “As a Catholic, Jesus Christ is my lord and savior. Donald Trump helps Jesus, and that simply goes with that,” he stated.
Trump’s rally in Pittsburgh happened throughout the road from Duquesne University, a Catholic school.
Jenna Pindrock, 20, who’s Catholic and describes herself as “pro-life,” stated she has Catholic buddies who have been initially on the fence however then have been turned off by Harris when she instructed anti-abortion-rights protesters “you’re on the flawed rally.”