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Gayle McCormick, 77, who split from her husband William, 81, after he voted for Trump in 2016, said: “I think it’s going to take a long time to recover from Trump’s legacy.”
The two still spend time together, although now she lives in Vancouver, he in Alaska. Two of her grandchildren no longer speak to her because of her support for Democrat Hillary Clinton four years ago. He has also distanced himself from other family and friends who support Trump.
She is not sure that these divisions with friends and family will ever be fixed, because each believes that the other has a totally strange value system.
Democratic voter Rosanna Guadagno, 49, said her brother disowned her after she refused to support Trump four years ago. Last year, his mother suffered a stroke, but his brother, who lived in the same California city as his mother, did not notify him when his mother died six months later. They gave him the news after three days in an email from his sister-in-law. “I was excluded from everything that had to do with his death and it was devastating,” said Guadagno, a social psychologist who works at Stanford University, California.
Whoever wins the election, Guadagno is pessimistic about being able to reconcile with his brother, although he says he still loves him.
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Sarah Guth, 39, a Spanish interpreter from Denver, Colorado, said she eliminated several friends who supported Trump from her life. He couldn’t reconcile with his support on issues like separating immigrant children from their parents on the southern border, or with Trump himself after he was caught on tape bragging about groping women.
Guth and her Trump-voting father did not speak for several months after the 2016 election. The two now speak, but avoid politics.
Guth says that some of her friends cannot accept her support for a candidate, Joe Biden, who is in favor of free choice on the abortion issue.
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