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2 Nov, 7 tweets, 3 min read

How the election is dividing American families: When lifelong Democrat Mayra Gomez told her 21-year-old son five months ago that she was voting for Donald Trump in #Election2020, he cut her out of his life reut.rs/3mJGCWJ

'There are people not talking to me anymore, and I’m not sure that will change,' said Gomez, who is a fan of Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants and handling of the economy

A September report by the non-partisan Pew Research Center found that nearly 80% of Trump and Biden supporters said they had few or no friends who supported the other candidate

Gayle McCormick, 77, who separated from her husband William, 81, after he voted for Trump in 2016, said, 'I think the legacy of Trump is going to take a long time to recover from'

Democratic voter Rosanna Guadagno, 49, said her brother disowned her after she refused to support Trump four years ago. Last year her mother suffered a stroke, but her brother did not let her know when their mother died six months later

Sarah Guth, 39, a Spanish interpreter from Denver, Colorado, said she has cut several Trump-supporting friends out of her life. She could not reconcile herself to their support for issues such as separating immigrant children from parents at the southern border

Fervent Trump supporter Dave Wallace, 65, a retired oil industry sales manager in Pennsylvania, says his support for Trump has caused tensions with his son and daughter-in-law. 'I think it’s just Trump, the way he makes people feel.' More: reut.rs/3jPlyMS

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