In small swing-state city, voters divided on presidential outcome

MESQUITE, Nev. — A return to agency for ex-President Donald Trump will motivate 2 voters present to ditch America for Europe, nan seniors told The Post. But a young first-time elector vows to reliable it retired should Vice President Kamala Harris return nan apical job.

Cynthia Stowell and Ron Johnson sat extracurricular 1 of 2 polling places successful this metropolis of 23,000 successful northeast Clark County, wherever 7 retired of 10 swing-state Nevada voters reside, and said they some voted for Harris. Johnson said he’d voted early by mail, while Stowell had conscionable vanished casting a ballot.

“I deliberation Trump is simply a criminal. I don’t want a criminal successful complaint of my country,” Stowell said. Johnson praised nan veep arsenic opinionated “for nan things that we judge in, some her economical policies that she’s intending to enact . . . and nan measurement she projects positivity alternatively of negativity.”

Should Trump return to office, Stowell said, “I’m moving to Portugal.” Johnson agreed, saying, “I spell wherever she goes.” Trump would “institute unspeakable policies and move Americans against each different and return retired his retribution that he’s talking about, and I don’t want immoderate portion of that.”

A presumed Trump elector casts a ballot successful Las Vegas connected Election Day. Getty Images

Ashley Dean, 20, a Utah Tech University student who lives successful Las Vegas, stopped successful Mesquite to registry and ballot successful her first election. Holding a Trump gait motion and a recently purchased Trump T-shirt, she said it’s her work to formed a ballot this year.

“It was very important that we each determine to vote,” nan trading awesome said. “It doesn’t matter what property we’re at. We request to beryllium informed and educated. So I made nan prime to travel down coming and vote.”

She said separator information tops her database of priorities.

“Our world is truthful different nowadays, and I deliberation it’s unsafe for definite things that are allowed. And I’ve heard of different cases of our separator control, which I deliberation we decidedly request to salary much attraction to,” she said. It’s much astatine consequence for those group who are having each those allegations pinch nan aliens, rapists, and I conscionable deliberation that we request to beryllium much alert of what’s going connected successful our country.”

Asked whether she would time off nan United States if Harris wins, Dean said she’d enactment and “work harder.”

“I’m not gonna opportunity that we’re each gonna die, because I don’t deliberation it’s true. I conscionable deliberation it’s adjacent that I person nan correct to opportunity what I want, and if I don’t get what I want, past I will still persevere and do better.”