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Trump supporter in Northampton County: Fight for the political future
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Sara Naomi Lewkowicz / DER SPIEGEL
"I'm freezing with fear," says Gloria Lee Snover.
"I can hardly sleep at night," says Tom Sidor.
"If Trump loses, there will be a civil war," says Jerry Pritchard.
On a Thursday night, Snover, Sidor and Pritchard are sitting in a windowless room on a street in Pennsylvania, USA.
There is a stained carpet on the floor and the Constitution of the United States hangs on the wall, framed and behind glass.
The room is usually an office space.
But on this evening there is a mixture of self-help group and crisis meeting.
The local Republicans have called a meeting: They want to discuss how they can prevent Donald Trump from losing the election in their district.
And thus possibly across the country.
Northampton County, the area where Snover, Sidor and Pritchard live, looks inconspicuous: corn fields alternate with chestnut groves, the low houses are now, in early October, adorned with pumpkins.
There is hardly a place in America that could be more average - and hardly a place more important.
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