“Russian” Philadelphia: in search of a president
In philadelphia where on monday Congress has started The Democratic Party, and where Hillary Clinton should officially get a presidential nomination, is home to a large number of Russian-speaking voters. The exact number of immigrants from Russia and neighboring republics living today in the “city of brotherly love,” as they call Philadelphia, is in the tens of thousands.
Tamara Minkowski lives in the US already 22 of the year. She admits that she has always been a democrat by conviction, but this year she likes the troublemaker of political calm Donald Trump more.
“I haven’t clearly decided yet, but I think I will vote for Trump. I like him. He has the following intentions: to restore order in America and boost the economy,” explains Tamara.
Lyuba Nabrudnaya made her choice and will vote based on party discipline. Trump is not too sweet to her, but she does not want to see the Clintons in the White House again either.
“In general, I am a member of the Republican Party. Honestly, I can't say I like the Republican candidate. But I want to be loyal to the party, and therefore I will vote for Trump. I am a woman, and perhaps I should support the first female president. But since we’ve already had Clinton for 8 years, I wouldn’t want all this to happen again,” says Lyuba.
But spouses Katya and Sasha Strelkovy shrug for a question about who they are going to vote for. With all the wealth of choice, in their opinion - there is no one to choose.
“In my opinion, there are no worthy candidates,” says Ekaterina. - Neither Hillary nor Trump, I do not find the right program, which, in my opinion, will be the best for America. "
“Whatever the president is - Hillary or Trump - they will not be able to do the things that they declare anyway. In my opinion, for America it would be possible to find more worthy candidates than the two who remained, ”sums up Alexander.
The scandals around the Republicans, and now the Democrats, the respondents are not watching very closely. All this, in their opinion, is intraparty intrigues and a game for the public, for the press.
And even to the possible Russia's involvement Russian-speaking voters are philosophically hacking into the mail of the National Committee of the Democratic Party and mentioning the name of Vladimir Putin - they say, the Democrats would not be engaged in dirty business, there would be no scandal.
On according to CNN, Donald Trump, having received the nomination, beat Clinton by 3% in the latest public opinion poll.
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