Meet the gun-toting Brits who will vote for Donald Trump – POLITICO

Long was speaking in the back office of Taste of Britain, another British store that has been a fixture in Norcross, an Atlanta suburb, for three and a half decades. The store has an enormous range of British food products, including niche products such as Smith’s Scampi Fries, Soreen malt bread, Bird’s custard powder and a full menu of Scottish pies.

Roxanna Aguilar, who has run the store for 12 years, was born in South London and grew up in Colchester, Essex. She has seen the other Brits who move to Georgia gradually become more polarized – like their American neighbors – the more time they spend in the US. Many now look to Fox News or other conservative media, she said, and turn vocally against those on the left. bias of other broadcasters.

“In Britain, your political view is very personal. It’s not here,” said Aguilar in her Union Jack-themed office, where the carpet, tissue box and baroque armchair are all splashed with the British flag. “But I think the English people who live here are used to it.”

Certainly, the British-American voters POLITICO spoke with were open and generous in sharing their views — even the most controversial ones.

One woman — who asked not to be named — repeated false claims that the 2020 election was rigged against Trump and accused the Internal Revenue Service, the CIA and other government institutions of colluding against him. The same person said of Harris, “If I see that laugh one more time and that head nod, I’m going to put a baseball bat through the TV.”

Rare species

Not all British-born voters in the US reject the Democratic nominee, of course. In fact, many people have said that the British who vote for Trump are few and far between.