As the world leader congratulated Republican Donald Trump for his victory in the US Presidential elections, Indian-American US Congressman Shri Thanedar on Thursday said that people voted for Trump because they see him as an agent of change.
Donald Trump articulated different issues that concern the voters and voters also saw that Trump was aware of their concerns, fears and hardships, he added. “People feel that the current administration is responsible for the economic situation and they have sent a clear message.
What Donald Trump has done is that he has articulated 3 different issues that are on voters’ minds and voters saw that Donald Trump understood their concerns & fears and their hardships. They gave Donald Trump a mandate because they saw Donald Trump as an agent of change at this time,” Thanedar said. The US Congressman further informed that 50 per cent of the voters are people who live from “paycheque to paycheque” and they gave Trump a mandate because they are struggling.
“From the Exit Polls, we see that nearly 50% of the voters, people who are living from paycheque to paycheque, people who are struggling to put food on their table, kitchen table issues, expenses, paying for healthcare, paying for groceries, gasoline, paying for children’s education. So people are struggling, these are the people who work with their own hands. Some of them may or may not have a college degree but they work hard to raise their family. They are all struggling. The cost of living has gone up substantially. The buying power has gone down and people are hurting,” Congressman Thanedar said.