<h1>'I believe they cheated'</h1><p>"When Trump was inaugurated, I was so happy," said Gia Maxson, a yoga teacher and devout Catholic from Hickory, North Carolina.</p><p>"I went to two Trump rallies. They were wonderful, uplifting, positive experiences," she added.</p><p>Maxson refuses to believe that Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol two weeks' ago, even though it was caught on countless cameras. </p><p>"That was all staged so they could shut them down. They tried everything in their power to get rid of him in the beginning. They finally figured out a way to assassinate him." </p><p>"I am fearful, angry, absolutely stunned this could happen in America," she said. </p><p>She usually watches inaugurations but decided not to tune in this year. </p><p>"I believe it is completely illegitimate, I believe they cheated. There is no way Biden got 80 million votes," says Maxson, referring to unfounded claims of voter fraud.</p><p>Maxson believes Trump won't go away. </p><p>"I hope a new party can be launched -- the Patriot Party. That would be the best case scenario, the end of the two-party system."</p><h1>Impeachment 'unconstitutional'</h1><p>Doug McLinko, a local Republican representative in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, worries that the Democratic Party might try to scrap the Electoral College system.</p><p>"Rural America will have no voice, only major metropolitan areas," he said. </p><p>"This country has never been as divided," added McLinko, saying he takes issues with some on the left referring to Trump supporters as neo-Nazis. </p><p>"You call somebody a Nazi -- I don't think there is a worse phrase and yet that's what they do and next they talk about healing the country," said McLinko.</p><p>"I think the impeachment is completely unconstitutional. They seem to forget that 75 million people voted for him," he added, also believing that Trumpism is here to stay.</p><p>"The national populism is more than Donald Trump and that is going nowhere."</p><h1>No confidence in Biden</h1><p>"I feel like Biden's going to undo everything that Trump's done," said Sharon McGettrick, a health insurance worker from Clearwater, Florida. </p><p>"I was hoping that we would still continue with this immigration situation, with the wall which now they're saying that they're not going to. </p><p>"We're not going to have those choices anymore, to have that freedom of speech. They're trying to take guns away too," she added.</p><p>McGettrick believes the Covid-19 pandemic was "orchestrated" by China to damage the United States financially.</p><p>"There is no middle class anymore. You're either rich or you're poor. I'm making $31,000 a year, which if you look at the statistics means I'm in poverty.</p><p>"Maybe I should not be so presumptuous and think that he's not going to do things for our country but I just don't have the confidence in him like I get with Trump," she concluded.</p><h1>Trump 'not going away'</h1><p>Tim Hearn, a small business owner from the Charlotte area of North Carolina, says politicians in Washington have "created an environment within Congress that has become more of a job and a lifestyle than a position of service to the country."</p><p>"Trump brought jobs back to America that were sent overseas by previous administration, whether they were Republican or Democrat. It wasn't just a red versus blue scenario. It was America versus the globalists," said Hearn.</p><p>He thinks energy costs are going to go up under Biden's administration, which will kill his business.</p><p>"If he wants to raise the minimum wage, it is going to hurt us as well," he added.</p><p>Hearn thinks Biden's government will do "everything they can" to "cancel" Trumpism. </p><p>"It's not going to go away. People are going to still have the movement inside of them," he added.</p><p>"If Trump doesn't run again, I think if there's a place for Don Jr to run. I think he's the only one that could take the torch and go with it."</p>
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