To understand what voters expect from a new Donald Trump presidency, DW visited Bucks County in Pennsylvania, a swing county within the Keystone State that hadn't been won by a Republican presidential candidate since 1988.
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00:00At this store in a Pennsylvania suburb, Trump's political comeback has been good for business.
00:07This money's for Donald Trump.
00:09Make America great.
00:10Sales have been soaring since election day.
00:14That is awesome.
00:16We were absolutely swamped.
00:19Customers came in, they cleaned us out.
00:20One of the things that we featured yesterday, and it's been selling very briskly, are our
00:24Trump 1 flags, our two cat-themed shirts.
00:29We sold a ton of them yesterday as well.
00:31And that, of course, makes fun of the whole illegal aliens in Springfield, Ohio, because
00:36we figure so long as they're going to keep allowing illegals into the country and they're
00:40not going to do anything about it, we're going to continue to lay the satire on nice and
00:44thick.
00:46But it isn't just provocative statements that moved voters, Lisa says.
00:51It's the policies Donald Trump promises to implement, she tells me, that won over even
00:56lifelong Democrats in her town of Bensalem in Bucks County.
01:02They did not feel as though what the Democrat Party was fighting for anymore was the things
01:06that they believed in.
01:08Economic basics was a huge thing.
01:10Economics drove a lot of it.
01:14That's something we've heard over and over again here.
01:17The economy, but also immigration and foreign affairs, simply felt better managed under
01:24Donald Trump.
01:25A sentiment his campaign capitalized on in purple counties like this one.
01:30Until November 5th, Bucks County had not voted for a Republican president in 35 years.
01:38For weeks leading up to election day, places like these in Bucks County, Pennsylvania were
01:43fiercely fought over by both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.
01:48That effort paid off for the president-elect, who won the county by a little over 500 votes.
01:55That slim margin means expectations for Trump's second term are mixed here.
02:00In nearby Doylestown, we spoke to residents about what they imagine the next four years
02:05will be like.
02:06More money in my pocket, close the border down, illegal aliens, yes, it's going to be
02:13much better.
02:14It's kind of been a worst-case scenario, with us not only losing at the presidential, but
02:18also losing the Senate and the House.
02:20It's looking a little bit grim right now.
02:21I worry that someone like him, without those safeguards.
02:24My grandson was in class with a friend who is Latino, who was hysterical crying.
02:31He's so scared.
02:32I think America is going to be great again.
02:34Already we're seeing it in the stock markets going up.
02:38Angry that we can't move forward, that people want to stay in the 50s.
02:44And I just feel like they want women to be in the kitchen pregnant and no shoes on.
02:50Back at the Trump store in Bin Salem, Lisa is sure a second Trump term won't just be
02:55good for America, but for her shop as well.
02:58For the longest time he was saying, you know, America first.
03:03And so America first themed merchandise has been very popular here.
03:08So there'll be other things going forward.
03:12Whether those things will help bridge the differences between residents of Bucks County
03:17is unclear.