During a swing through Central Pennsylvania, Fox News Digital spoke with several voters in urban and rural areas, and got their take on the effects of charged political rhetoric among other topics.
In Wakefield, the rural community just north of the Maryland line, Marsha Peterson co-owns Peterson’s Grocery Outlet with her husband.
Asked about the level of political rhetoric, Peterson said the left has spent years on a drumbeat of telling Americans former President Trump “is a danger and he must be stopped.”
“Then, you see people on social media laughing and saying they wouldn’t have missed [shooting] him,” she said. “They want words to matter – but only the right’s words.”
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Closer to home, Peterson said the affordability crisis has been a major issue for both her and her customers.
“We run a little mom-and-pop little grocery store, and …