Eddie Forbes, a 42-year-old truck driver from Phoenix, says he wants Trump to be able to finish what he started so the country can get back to basics.
“He’s already done this, it’s been proven,” he said. “So why did we stop that? Why would we get away from that?”
Forbes also said that as a truck driver, he cares about infrastructure and energy policies. “Because the cost of fuel is going up, it becomes a domino effect and trickles down,” he said. “If the one thing that Trump can do is ‘drill baby drill,’ as he says, and bring down fuel costs, everything else will follow.”
Eddie Forbes. Jillian Gaier / NBC News
Forbes said he voted for Democrats for president up until 2016 — and that Trump was the first Republican presidential candidate he’d ever voted for. “The reason why I gravitated toward Trump was his consistency. I remember him from back in the late 80s and 90s — whatever he was saying back then, he’s saying today,” Forbes said. “And it’s not about how he’s saying things, it’s about what he’s saying. I don’t care how he says things — just get the job done. We all have potty mouths as truck drivers, right, but we get the job done. And that’s what we need.”
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