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Pennsylvania's blue-collar voters see danger — and back Trump

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. - There are no protests over racial injustice or police brutality here, and the only fires or violence Wendy Williams encounters are on television and online. Yet the spotty images of unrest in faraway Portland, Oregon, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, linger in her mind.

If anything, she'd like President Donald Trump to crack down harder, to follow through on his threats to send more troops to quash the protests. She wishes he didn't say so many inflammatory things, yet resents those who label him a racist.

"There's always been racism. There's always gonna be racism, but it's not him that's doing it," Williams, a white, 53-year-old stay-at-home mom, said outside a Walmart. "It's the Democrats and the media that are getting it out there and keeping it out there. And if the riots don't get taken care of, it's

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