Local paper profiles motley crew Trump brought out in New Hampshire town

The center of Chris Shaw's calf is emblazoned with his love for Trump.

In deep black ink, the former president's smiling face is tattooed, standing in front of the Statue of Liberty and an American flag.

The man is not alone in his devotion. A woman stands all day in the New Hampshire cold, handing out bumper stickers from her van that's packed with Trump memorabilia. A 70-year-old sets up camp in the parking lot of a local school, spending all day trying to sway voters before packing up for a long drive to another town for a results watch party.

New Hampshire's Concord Monitor spoke to the three, among others, in a profile of the motley crew Trump brought out during Tuesday's primary.

In the towns of Pittsfield and Loudon, around 60 percent of the vote turned out for Donald Trump in 2020 — and that support remains strong, according to the Monitor.

That devotion was evidenced by 26-year-old Pittsfield resident Shaw, who showed off the tattoo to voters standing outside a polling station. Shaw, who got the tattoo before the COVID-19 pandemic, said he later got a tattoo of Dr. Anthony Fauci with devil horns.

Pittsfield resident Clayton Wood, 70, who also voted in the New Hampshire primary, says his vote for Trump is much deeper than just surface-level support for Trump -- it's to pay homage to Trump for sparking his desire to become more involved in state elections.

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“I joined the local Republican Party to try to figure out what is going on and I didn’t like what I saw,” Wood said. “I saw a handful of people that are conservative and I saw a group of Republicans that could go either way, so I decided to run. I decided to finally do something.”

Wood was handing out business cards to voters emblazoned with his pro-Trump philosophy: “Seal our border, fight real crime, drill baby drill, restore our country, the right man for the job, Trump!”

Loudon resident Terese Bastarache agrees, so much so that she stood outside her polling area and passed out pro-Trump bumper stickers and wallet-sized voting cards that remind people of the five elections this year.

“I truly believe everyone should have the freedom to live free or die,” she said. “If we could all just come together, I think we could do great things and I pray… I pray that we can figure this out.”

Read the full story over at the Concord Monitor.