Waching daily Nov 4 2018

This is Trump country, as the reception shows.

"USA! USA! USA! USA!"

An adoring crowd greets the President

like a hero returned.

"Hello Iowa"

For the next eighty minutes Mr.Trump hits all his favourite lines.

"Our hearts bleed red, white and blue"

But above all, one theme stands out: Trade.

"With China over the last five, six years we've been losing 300 to 500 billion dollars a year. Billion!

"We have finalised a new fair trade deal for South Korea.

The European Union sounds

so nice, right? They are brutal they formed in order to take advantage of us on trade.

We will make America great again!"

The message is well received here

among the President's faithful, as the huge banner that hangs behind him

reads: 'Promises made, promises kept.'

and there is no doubt that Donald Trump

almost two years after taking office has delivered his pledge to shake things up on trade.

America is out of the trans-pacific partnership.

NAFTA has been renegotiated

and tariffs have been whacked on billions of dollars worth of

steel and aluminium imports.

Free trade is being challenged

but at what cost?

Other nations have hit back with tariffs of their own.

Many targeting the very supporters who got Mr.Trump into the White House.

Start driving northeast from

Council Bluffs and you soon get to the farming heart of Iowa.

This is a swing state.

Barack Obama won it in 2008 and 2012

bur Mr.Trump romped home to a 10-point victory in 2016.

It is also a state of soybean farms.

Some 40,000 jobs are tied

to the crop here.

Many, like Jeff Frank, supported Mr.Trump

"I'm the fourth generation on this farm,

You know, I grew up here.

The house was built when my mom was 2 years old.

This is actually my grandpa with the

corn sheller back when we used to pick corn on the ear and it would separate the corn

from the cob."

When harvest comes Jeff can spend up to 14 hours a day in this vast

combine harvester working back and forth across the fields

"It's peaceful here.

You don't have anybody bothering, you don't have anybody you're asking you questions.

You don't have anyone around. It's a great time to think."

In July, China responded to President Trump's trade war

with a tariff of their own on soybeans.

All US soybean imports were hit with a 25% tariff. Meaning they became a quarter more

extensive to Chinese businesses overnight.

The move sent demand for US

soybean spiraling and triggered a sink in price.

At the start of the year

farmers like Jeff could get around $10 a bushel, now it is more like eight.

"We can't be profitable if the price of what we sell doesn't cover our input

costs so you know it's an issue. That's how people go bankrupt."

Jeff fears 2019 could be worse than this year and accepts that Trump voters have indeed

been hit.

"He's probably hurting the people that supported him the most but you know

we're big people which we can overlook some

things you know we need to see the end result.

Hopefully this tariff gets resolved and we all turn out better.

And his trade strategy I think is good because in the long run they have to come to us

We are the supplier. They cannot survive without us completely."

Around a thousand miles east from Jeff's farm is Pennsylvania.

Another swing state that Mr.Trump won.

His victory here was even more impressive than Iowa.

No Republican had won this date since 1988

Understanding towns like Wilkes-Barre in

Luzerne County is at the core of working out what happened in the Trump revolution.

"Our rich and abundant soil provides more than a living. It provides a beautiful

way of life for a lot of people."

This is the heart of the Rust Belt,

a cluster of traditionally Democrat states whose industrial decline meant voters were

open to Mr.Trump's protectionist message.

"We will rebuild rural America"

Journalist Ben Bradlee Jr. wrote a book all about Trump's voters in this county

He understands why President Trump's message resonated.

"This is coal country,

it was, but the coal industry gradually died out in the 60s and was

replaced by manufacturing in this area.

Most of them either closed or went

abroad and so into that climate came Trump and he found a ripe audience here.

The Democrats felt that their party had left them behind.

Trump filled the void.

They say you fall in love with your therapist because you feel heard

and these people felt heard by Donald Trump."

Bradlee says that out of the 12

Trump supporters his book focuses on just a single one is wavering today

There is certainly no wavering from Lynette Villano.

"I never saw anything

like it before in my life and I've been working polls for thirty years. They were

coming to vote but they were coming with their Trump shirts on they were coming

with their hats on and it was just overwhelming."

It was the prospect of something different that appealed - a chance for change

"I think we were getting really disgusted with what was going on in

Washington, and for both sides because no matter who you sent there things weren't

changing and then along came Donald Trump who had this vision for America

that we could all reach out to.

So, Trump voters are showing few signs of buyers' remorse.

Steel factories may not have reappeared by the dozen.

The tariffs may be hurting his base as much as those abroad,

but the president feels his supporters pain or at least appears to and is banging the table to get

something done.

Lynette, like millions of others across America, is sticking by her man.

"He's the first president that made promises and it's promises made promises kept."

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What impact is Trump's pro-life stance having on his supporters? - Duration: 7:10.

"it really has become a focus of the anti-choice movement"

This is the last abortion clinic in Kentucky. In the two years since Donald Trump

became president there has been a huge crackdown on access to abortions.

One by one, clinics across the country have shut down under the weight of hefty regulations,

threats to doctors and violence.

Now seven states including Kentucky

have just a single abortion clinic left.

"Does our nation deserve the

justice we pray for if we continue to kill children for the inconvenience that

they might bring to our lives?"

and those few remaining clinics are under threat too

Here in Kentucky the EMW Women's Clinic has become a key battleground for

both sides of the argument.

Volunteers here escort women into the clinic to act

as a physical barrier against pro-Trump, pro-life supporters.

"Protester are becoming more bold about using their bodies and about bringing props

including things like a child's coffin or a full sound system."

"'Operation Save America' posted themselves outside the clinic in numbers and there were

hundreds of people. Of course, I can only imagine it was incredibly stressful and

probably traumatic for some of the women arriving at the clinic."

In a deeply

religious state like Kentucky many feel it is their duty to let women know there

is an alternative option.

"There is a way out three out of four women are coerced

in some way so she's left thinking I guess I have to get an abortion when she

really doesn't want to."

Forty five years ago the landmark Supreme Court ruling in

the case of Roe v Wade revolutionised abortion law. It gave a constitutional

right to legal, safe abortions until a fetus was viable, typically at 22 to 24 weeks

"Of course Roe has been law for decades but here in Kentucky and in

other states we already see an encroachment on women's rights and women's access."

Donald Trump came into office promising to only appoint Supreme

Court judges who are open to overturning the ruling

"Roe vs. Wade has resulted in some of the most permissive abortion laws anywhere

in the world. It is wrong. It has to change."

Before becoming president, way

back in 1999, he said "I'm very pro-choice" but things changed in 2011

"I'm pro-life"

In April 2017 when Neil Gorsuch was appointed the balance shifted making the

court more conservative and with a majority of six men to three women the

lack of a female presence at the table has left many women across the States

fearful of Donald Trump's campaign promises.

Claiming they could infringe on

their civil liberties.

"It's a general feeling overall that access is in danger."

and now Brett Kavanaugh has been appointed to the Supreme Court.

"On the question of Roe v Wade if confirmed to the DC Circuit I would follow Roe v Wade faithfully and fully."

As a devout Roman Catholic and conservative, pro-choice

campaigners are worried about how he will tip the scale.

Many anti-abortion activists hope Mr.Kavanagh will deliver on President Trump's promise to overturn Roe.

"We will always defend the very first right in the Declaration of Independence

and that is the right to life."

Many people in Kentucky hope it will become

the first state with no abortion access.

"Being on the precipice of this is a scary time."

"In America we don't worship government we worship God and I want to

thank you because boy did you come out and vote."

Conservative evangelicals are a

significant part of Donald Trump support base for many reasons including his

pro-life stance. They traditionally support Republican candidates.

More than 80 percent voted for the president in 2016

"Every child is a precious gift from God"

I contacted dozens of churches but they were reluctant to talk about the

president on camera. It was only Pastor AR Bernard who agreed to open up on the issue

He was the first pastor to quit

Mr.Trump's spiritual advisory board, an influential group of faith leaders who

advised the president

"Most of the meetings that I attended, President Trump came he talked and again

assured us that he would be the best thing that ever happened for all the

concerns the state of Israel, abortion, immigration. I don't think he's

changed the pro-life issue, I think he's emboldened those who are pro-life.

The constitutionality of Roe v Wade has been in question since it came into law, you know

So now it's being challenged what direction is going to go in? I don't know"

With the conservative majority in the Supreme Court some legal experts

believe it's only a matter of time before roe v-- wade is challenged

abortion restrictions short of roe v-- wade note will be upheld and that's the

scary thing for us is that we see the types of laws that are already being

passed in states like Kentucky we know that those have been held

unconstitutional in the past there is a concern that Donald Trump's Supreme

Court appointees would be willing to reverse precedent on those cases you

never know what's gonna happen and there are pregnancies that are incompatible

with life there are pregnancies with fetal anomalies and there is a very very

real need for abortion care in the state even for those individuals who normally

would identify themselves as pro-life President Trump has only been in office

for two years but he has already brought about the most conservative Supreme

Court for several decades it is a move that will shape American society for

years to come if Brett Cavanaugh lost as long as his predecessor he will be on

the court until 2048 as America becomes more politically divided an energized

left-wing base has begun to mobilize against the Trump administration record

numbers of women and ethnic minorities are standing in November's midterm

elections to ensure their voices are heard we've seen from this president how

frightening power and money can become when that power is not in the hands of

people who are most impacted by the decisions that are being made I do think

that we have much scarier times ahead and that it is vitally important that we

all stick together in preserving access what's his install if the rest of the

Trump presidency we can't be sure but one thing is clear his impact on the

country will far outstrip his residence in the White House