One big thing dominates Tonya Rincon’s holiday wish list, and she is willing to wait nearly a year to get it: “Democrats retake the House.”
Billy Pierce has a very different end-of-the-year ask: “More Republican control.”
Political opposites, they are closing 2025 as they did 2024: on each side of America’s Donald Trump divide.
Pierce, a retiree and part-time consultant in South Carolina, rated Trump’s first year back in the White House an 8 out of 10. Rincon, a Michigander who retired last year from the Ford Motor Company, graded the president a 1. (Zero was not an option.)
“Better,” is how Pierce rated his standard of living since Trump returned to the presidency 11 months ago. “Slightly worse,” Rincon answered.
