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hit a country in turmoil. a president who provokes and divides i. driven into a corner by protests and the pandemic. donald trump is fighting tooth and nail for a 2nd term. with the election fast approaching america continues to be shaken by the coronavirus and a debate about racism. will meet people in 3 states that could decide the election arizona michigan wisconsin. after everything that's happened well they still go for trump i. i donald trump on the campaign trail

fighting for votes and arizona was last time around he won this important state by . i have very narrow margin i. prefer to listen to the president from outside the reality phoenix has become a coronavirus hotspot it tearing down statues desecrated monuments and purging dissenters it's not the behavior of the peaceful political movement it's the behavior of. to tell it terriers and tyrants and people that don't love our country they don't love our country. the bells often tune out when they hear trump's course rhetoric. what they care about is his economic record i think he's so pro-business he understands business as a business as business owners we want somebody that kind of understands our issues

for coping there we were writing it off for examiner so i mean we're doing well you know i we had high hopes for you know reelection and i mean it's it's crazy how kobe has just changed. america it's changed the world but i really think that if he got in and was elected for another 4 years that the things that he said and it would be any i think would come to fruition. it's fairly quiet outside the rally and contrast to the last drop of an toady and steve attended in february. could it be the heat. or the fact that the president has taken some hits in the polls. i there doesn't seem to be as much energy in the crowd or even in his voice we were outside we can't see him but it just doesn't feel as energetic on the things tired or just the masses 6 are is fixed you know large so he draws energy from the crowd i don't know but it just seems a little bit more subdued duty and steve bell have always been steadfast

republicans they plan to vote for trump and the. across the. tree pastor greg lewis says venturing back into his church for the 1st time in months. milwaukee is home to the largest black congregation in wisconsin and otherwise largely white rural state. lewis is great in march the preacher was in intensive care. coronavirus brought him close to death the buy wrist has killed 4 of his friends in milwaukee just like elsewhere black people have been more affected by cope with 19 than white people. god is real and saved my life because i should have been

you know i heard all proud of other issue on top of the corona you know what my believe is that god is. the pastor hasn't fully recovered yet this is his 1st service since being seriously ill in any case churches in wisconsin had to stay closed for months. after such a long time away pastor lewis wants to use his sermon to preach about pervasive racism. he says the killing of george floyd caused many to wake up. who didn't know. we're going. to try to. 0. my. fire. then. pastor lucas his ministry doesn't stop at the church door. he's been fighting

against the discrimination based by milwaukee's black population for years. he now hopes they could be on the verge of meaningful change. just because there is a law doesn't make things right so the course lead we were the law. but it was a right so so we just have a lot of work to do and we have to start to do that work right now why the people are protesting in the streets before we go back to our old ways and being quite. bitter and hateful. and. the brutal killing of george floyd shook the nation yet again raising an uncomfortable truth black americans are much more at risk of dying from police violence they make up 13 percent of the population but 23 percent of those killed by police statistics the president prefers not to use and

so are white people so no white people what a terrible question to ask so why people more white people by the way more white people black americans are much less likely to own their own home and can become homeless more quickly. and regardless of education they almost always earn considerably less than white americans. in arizona the lockdown is over restaurants and stores are open despite rising coronavirus infections. stephen dodie tells business selling promotional items is buzzing again like we do finally there are new inquiries and orders. in the 1st week after the lockdown the phone didn't even ring. demand had completely collapsed. it just happened so fast i knew that the. economy would come back

i just thought that it would come back quicker and now here we are almost in july and now we have the resurgence of cases and i think it's it is a setback one of their regular customers wants a bulk order of t. shirts $10000.00 worth. but duty is still cautious about the recovery. as the pandemic struck the economy the trumpet ministration turned to stimulus to soften the blow at the end of july the state had provided financial aid worth $2.00 trillion dollars many are calling for more the checks for up to $1200.00 that most americans received have long been spent the economic collapse was the worst in 75 years of fact trump ignores but we're going to go up. people are going to say. it's guy's doing

a good job he knows what he's doing and i don't believe the fake news anymore but next year and i said it before it will be the single greatest economically we've ever had. the bells have received the equivalent of 51000 euros from the state. we haven't had to dip into our own pockets to pay for our employees i mean i still responsible for them i don't want to let them go to employees that have been with us almost 20 years i just can't do that so it's helped keep us afloat. she can understand trump's desire to lift pandemic restrictions. has he made all the right decisions probably has he made some good decisions yes but no matter what president was sitting in that office you know i don't i just don't know how you can. judge something that we've never gaga before. steve

has another preoccupation with us through his friendship with one of his poker buddies who's black he's come to see how much racism affects the daily lives of black americans. a friend of mine just sent me a thing over the weekend about trump supporting. white supremacy some of you saw all that. and basically trump said that was a good thing on his tweet. i think he's going to be like. i think he's killing himself right now personally i think he's if he would learn to shut up . he might have a chance to right now and i think that maybe now that the democratic candidate mr biden. has a much better shot. before the boxes are even packed a grim news alerts record new corona virus infections bars and restaurants will

have to close again so that kind of changes things again i clear talking about every day is a new day everything changes just when you think that you're getting some traction . or not you're. damn covert. katie pontifex has to face the virus every day. in her home state of michigan the pandemic has been to some extent under control but the numbers are rising again. she has no sympathy for those who don't want to follow the rules anymore even though she herself longs for the time before corona i want to go back to my life the way it was and i think that it's hard to swallow that our lives will be different moving forward until there's

a vaccine. time and again katie has had to witness patients losing their fight against cope at 19. the nurse hopes that those in washington d.c. will take the danger more seriously. most of us don't go into this career for anything but appalling want to care for people so we don't feel like heroes we're just showing up and do our job. you know we take care of people in the best times of their lives and our worst and this was how different the simple facemask has become the symbol of a divided country with trump himself stirring up the dispute many republicans refuse to wear them while democrats are in favor of them and trump's message everything's under control every one of these judges it has you know so much about just maybe i have a natural ability a baby or should have done that it said or was it your brother's the economic collapse caused by the pandemic seems to be

a personal affront to trump his 1st appearance in a mask was only in july. he then called mass wearing patriotic. it will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better something i don't like saying things but that's the way it is. hindsight is 2020 meanwhile more and more american. as are dying. the number of coronavirus deaths continues to rise seemingly unchecked unlike in germany for example. the us is handling of the pandemic put it on the level of a developing country because katie's hospital took early precautions she and her colleagues feel well equipped just very much that it's in their. words she was here she's been tested positive for the home i'm related she says she's just starting to get a cough that she hasn't really had any of the symptoms of. the times they have praise

for michigan's governor in part because she asked nurses like katie for their advice the state shutdown early on which drew sharp criticism from president trump . katie didn't like that at all. trump encouraged the governor's opponents who even blocked access to the hospital. i wish people would trust health care workers but there i have run into colleagues around the country that i went to school with who are on the other side of this and they too think that this is just like the flu and you know but that's not what we're seeing and we. so even those of us who are educated in the sciences are are struggling at times. a new residential area on the outskirts of lansing michigan capital many here have been economically better off in recent years katie her 2 daughters and husband matt have just moved

into their new home. matt doesn't mind some of the administration's economic policies but he thinks its social responsibility is lacking and it has nothing to do with socialism the republicans favorite bogeyman. as a society we need to be making longer term decisions how do we buy and improve health care and insurance coverage and making sure everyone's taken care of that's not an easy fix and as much as we'd like to get the one second sound bite that says i have the solution and that it takes people coming together i can't i can't even watch videos if i needed it and i read the subtitles because i think. it puts me in a bad place to just even hear his voice and days and. i don't ever want to think that of anybody any any person even. if there are

a modern family katie does shiftwork matt takes on a large share of the childcare and housework it's not as though they long for more government regulations they're freedom loving americans but the country under donald trump is no longer an america they recognize. and parent we opposed to any policies that indicate that one group is below another that's just doesn't work with the family values that we have we know ourselves with any one party we know that our our you know our beliefs and. and morals and things like that line up a little bit more direct with one party versus the other but you know we look at the candidates issues and and vote along those lines up until. it was a this primary election or maybe it was last year we've never voted a straight party ticket before and this year we well. one reason katie and matt

plan to vote democratic is their daughters. they want eva and emerson to grow up to be strong self-confident women with equal rights. i just think it'd be nice to have a change because we've only had males president for a long long time and it be nice to just have at least one it's a woman's. honor as president. format who teaches at a university and katie a nurse for more years of donald trump are unimaginable the country can't handle more division. no i never would have invasion something like that and. probably my wildest dreams how can maybe my way and it honestly at times feels like we're living in a in a bad. back in phoenix trump supporter dodi belle is spending the day with her

grandson. it's a chance to take a breath and forget the stresses of work. the bells had actually planned to sell their business this year to step back and focus more on their family. but then came the pandemic. i mean i have hope i have i know that this is going to be over soon we're going to have our highs on our lows with the cow i can see that but right now i think it's just making me weary and tired you know i'm tired of talking about it i i i feel for those that keep getting so i just feel that weight . steve clears his head by exercising before coronavirus he was sure that america was on the right track now

everything has changed my life was good could be at stake. if we can get our business back to 100 percent but least close there's a real possibility we could lose our business. he worked hard. for his dream after a childhood spent in poverty. when we were out of food we ate what was in the house and i remember one evening for dinner it was like the 3rd night in a row we were having pain cakes. and. i can remember. going into the kitchen smelling the pancakes and throwing up because i couldn't do another night of pancakes but that's all we had. i have always had the mindset that if i want it i've got to work for it and i started working when i was in junior high and there's this mindset within our country that the government should take care of us and that i don't have to work

and i do think kind of the socialist mindset is coming into our country where we will no longer be necessarily democracy. here in michigan the election is mainly about the economy it was a key reason trump won the state in 2016. under his administration some things in the so-called rust belt have improved. but the coronavirus hasn't done much of that improvement. in the neighboring state of wisconsin known as america's dairy land many farmers back to tromp and helped him to victory. how will they vote this time . the pandemic forced dave daniels to reduce milk production for several months but demand is starting to

pick up again these cows are about to be inseminated for the 1st time. david least hasn't had to throw away any milk we do have to keep on farming because these animals don't understand what's. going on they are accustomed to their daily routine. eating lounging around and everything else so they they don't know anything different right now they just figure it's a nice sunny day here at the end of june. farmers like dave on trump hoping for better produce prices and less bureaucracy but thanks to trade disputes and the coronavirus they're now more dependent on financial aid from washington than before. whether in response to cope at 19 or the trade war with china trump solution has always been money. $1000000000.00 during the trade war in 2018 another $16000000000.00 in 2019. and amid the

pandemic $19000000000.00 by the end of july 2020. you can go back to abraham lincoln there's no president history to the farmers like . and here we're doing well with the farmers but i can't imagine i want to find out who wouldn't be who would be withdrawn. many farmers love him for abolishing regulations including environmental safeguards for farmers is a great. great americans never complain never complain they just do what they have to do since the end of march dave has been head of the wisconsin farm bureau federation. he'd rather be working outside right now but because of coronavirus the meetings are piling up. today there's a conference with farmers associations from all over the country many support

despite the president's negotiating style. he is someone that takes. the bull by the horns and he's very. and you know very aggressive and he says he has his reasons for it we can understand it that those are reasons we we wish that sometimes those tears one hurt as much but you know those all the opportunities that he has taken to hopefully have a better future for the united states in the end. nearly all of dave's employees are from mexico most white americans don't want this kind of work. that's why the farmer is for simpler immigration laws. it's not as though dave isn't critical of the president if only he keeps his mouth

shut more often especially now when protests are sweeping the country. we've always been able to demonstrate so there's been some demonstrations that have been on peaceful but for the most part the peaceful ones are are doing it for the right reason. and you know when we have the african-americans and black white matters there there needs to be some some justification for some of things that have happened and they have the right to do that demonstrate. rural wisconsin is local slike to keep to themselves and the pandemic has isolated the population even more. dave's wife cam is a nurse she knows the best ways to avoid infection. but she's also a committed republican she rejects mandated mask wearing everybody's gonna make up

their their own mind about who wears them and who doesn't and how they feel you know it is america and we can't force people to do things so we just hope they make the right decisions have been around the spinners both have traditionally voted republican although this time they say they haven't quite made up their minds it's more about milk prices than the larger political landscape the decisive factor is who will be better for farmers. dave says that trump has gotten a lot right. but he still on the fence trumps extremes his tendency to aggravate situations and insult those who think differently these things go against dave's perception of america. i think there's more people in the middle but the

boisterous ones on the right and the left and i think they are they're drowning out the middle and how we would like to have this country run so it's it will be a challenge because it seems like the pendulum swing this way to the right and then we come back and swings way to the left and i wish we could stay in the middle for a will a little while longer so people could be happier. with . the sonora desert in southern arizona a place famous for its cacti. maxie adler and lake in georgia all want to show us the effects of tribes politics the fair document how the construction of trump's border fence destroys nature. trumps prestige project has grown despite opposition . laken is a former ranger he quit his job because of trump. now he and maxie fight

against the construction of the border wall. as usual it doesn't take long for security guards to show up we're allowed to be here these are public lands is a taxpayer funded project we have every right to be here you can call your boss in call border patrol. just the usual fun and games lake and says he used to work here as a researcher and ranger now he works to protect the cacti. the saguaro is the emblem of the american west it's blossoming is arizona state flower. always has construction traffic you know it's like what like 40 or 50 trucks. seem like there's a lot more going on and just a lot more you know closes down. the companies seem to be working flat out

the activist speer trump is using the pandemic to push construction along before the election. 3100 kilometers of borders separate mexico and the united states. my administration has done more than any administration in history to secure our southern border so far around 400 kilometers of bents have been built claims that will be $700.00 by the end of the year. to achieve this he suspended 41 environmental guidelines and competition regulations and arizona alone all planned and financed unilaterally bypassing congress. this unesco recognised research is now home to excavators and bulldozers. so. well. still well yeah it's i'm sure those killed the last week or 2 it's still totally what will be on the inside

a star has to be at least 75 years old to grow and i'm and so are has multiple. so i don't know for sure how well that was but. yeah it could be and could be although that employed. the. these giants of the desert. cut down to fill a campaign promise. i mean not only are these plants beautiful and irreplaceable but they also provide a huge amount of habitat to birds to rodents. they stabilize the soil they provide all sorts of ecosystem services and if we keep destroying these things that hold the patchwork of life together. it's just

a matter of time until it all unravels. if i did the surf anyone else did this. would be a felony no show you could be put in jail for harming one of these plants but here it's like. they're everywhere. for maxine lake and trump so-called wall is a symbol of his governing style never mind the laws. people fought 3 years to make them happen it's not like they happen overnight and the idea was that they would protect us and protect the things that we love and with so little. was able to just remove it as if it doesn't it doesn't exist anymore it's just an absurd amount of frustration it makes me feel like democracy doesn't exist.

lincoln now works for an environmental organization in tucson. to witness the destruction as a ranger would have been unbearable now at least he's creating hope despite the pandemic. the violent killing of george floyd has brought a renewed sense of unity to those who oppose trump. and think it's really clear that the status quo is not working for people and that it is possible to build. more trust and beautiful world and in that sense you know the struggle. is doris in there. oh oh she left can i leave us with now that we've all our voices voices behind us is not i feel that that was the point of oslo and i think that i think that's what a lot of people feel and i'm going to we're going to write like you have to go on you know you know so we all do this someday and i teach him that there's not that

you can't do in life you're not things we want to be when you grow up. it's fun for you or i miss me i know this but i live by the lights and that's it you're black man oh man i think i've hit up on me a long time ago but on the off fight for help so who does the fight for their child who doesn't make sure that your child doesn't live the best life that you didn't have even if you had the best would you want to sit down and with elected officials and tell them everything that we are i mean i'm me i think i'll put me here for a purpose that you know we just miss it is that i shut out sometimes. i'm sorry so the reason i ask is because this is just be 5 minutes and i'm like you need to have these conversations with these elected officials who aren't listening who have failed you. voting rights are still a controversial issue in the united states it's often black populations that are

most disadvantaged there aren't enough polling stations it can be complicated to register to vote and those who commit a felony can lose that right entirely absent that fear of the virus as a primary elections in milwaukee just 5 polling stations were open instead of 180 a proposal to allow everyone to vote by mail was rejected which pleased the u.s. president you can't do the mail in ballots because you can have tremendous fraud people steal him out of mail boxes people project and then they sign up and they give a minute that people don't even know where the double counted. angela lang's organization is headquartered in this church since the middle of march things have been at a standstill here. but before coronavirus people were trained and community outreach . after the democrats 2016 loss some blamed the black community for not voting thereby costing hillary clinton the state of wisconsin. but angela is angry that

democrats took the black vote for granted. she wants to convince people that their votes are valuable but that voting alone isn't enough voting is just one tactic it is not going to be the ultimate solution it's not going to wave a magic wand always on policies or undone it's really going to take voting if people are able to in combination with year round organizing that's is where you're going to see the change that's we're going to see the accountability it's our job to make sure that people are uncomfortable even if you were just elected yesterday don't don't rest on that to honk because. how many people you think you can get to polls past how many think you could be responsible for. oh it's in his kitchen and makes calls to other parishes you know he wants to organize 100000 votes as part of an initiative called souls to the polls he knows how important his

efforts could be hillary clinton was only a few tens of thousands of votes short of winning the 2016 election in his state to register to vote we can protest for the rest of our lives is some place is going to fall of dead ears so we need to have a transition to something that would be more long term gratification nobody's going to write in or white horse and help us see and there's mistrust for democrats and republicans right now you know because look biden has all he said he would always this guy did that i was looking forward to vote for. mr gray can his wife know how hard it is to motivate people to be politically active when they lack the most basic necessities education health care jobs. they said we couldn't do. that with no home.

they don't know to god we serve. one god 2 different worlds. steve bell was a pastor for 8 years before he became an entrepreneur because of the pandemic stephen doherty worship remotely from their living room they don't know what we like moral values are important to them but they can forgive the fact that the president regularly disregards the 10 commandments after all politics is always an immoral business. you know we're all humans as i don't agree with some of the you know words that president trump has said i still think overall that. he tries to do what's right even though sometimes it doesn't come across that way i'm not going to judge the man i know my own frailties on my own and that's between him and god really that's not really my judgment i'm not

going to be i don't put him at the same level as jesus so he's just my president he's not my savior. independence day in wisconsin. pastor greg braves the baking sun for hours. after all a barbecue is essential on the 4th of july. donald trump has just promised to make america great again i. will be very good if you want this to be you know like true up cause it make america great again we don't see that you know we was a great you know when we were slaves when when when we had jim crow we couldn't go and walk in the cities you know we couldn't be in that and the town after dark when was a great you know so you know we don't this this is my daughter i'm sorry. the

pastor can't see what's improved for black people since trump came into office neither here in the walky nor in the rest of the country aspired practice for us 4th of july is just a day off because we don't really have much to celebrate about independents because we really are independent you know we don't get the same kind of help and consideration that you know other people get. one thing unites all americans there's lots of food for the national holiday do hastur greg and his wife have invited over a friend and her daughters and of being together this time to relax the with family free and love would we pray right now that you would bless those with your stories that we. might get through these times and it's so important we cover from 400

years of devastation sin thank god amen amen. dodi and steve usually celebrate with their children and their friends this time it's a dinner for 2. it's a 4th of july that i i'm not going to forget i mean i'm kind of sad because the family's not together or not you know something in the pool and we're not laughing and telling jokes and everything but i mean i'm still glad as 4th of july proud to be an american but it's just it's different there's just like a damper on the whole day. at least there's something to celebrate they've just received word that they'll get a government loan worth $150000.00 it should get their business through the next few months steve sees that is true that trump's america is good for him and others . but i think that's one of the things that makes me proud about being an american

is we do help people in the world i know we can be conceived as bullies and and such but. i think america is. is good for the world i do think there are interests in the world that would like to see that change but i hope that america stays. a leader in the world and cares about our neighbors in the world. the fact that trump is already talking about election fraud annoys them but they're not surprised it's just typical trial. one last question before we go what if trump loses but refuses to leave office i don't know how that's possible. i don't know of a president that actually said that they're not leaving if you like that's no probability but it's certainly have hope. but again i think going back to that his behavior has proven that he's much like my youngest child here my sister tantrums

that's a terrifying prospect of pressure it may be a very real scenario and a very may well be a constitutional crisis but the military are going to listen he would have to be removed from a story role here so. hostile restall baby i don't feel that he is going to make a special the korean create him king of america we all know that like jester champ gets further out of office as in is going away we're going to hang him from him for years to come he knows he has millions of people who follow him and he don't have to have a presidential seat to have power good leaders.

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