{"id":1480,"date":"2024-11-05T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2024-11-05T19:41:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T03:41:01","slug":"mean-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/2024\/11\/05\/mean-place\/","title":{"rendered":"“The world\u2019s a mean place”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Election Day 3:17 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Tristan Gillis, a three-time Donald Trump voter, this election boils down to security, both on the world stage and on the southern border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think we’re still a great country, but I just feel like right now, we’re not necessarily feared,\u201d said Gillis. He believes if Trump is in office, he will bring that fear and respect back to the United States so the country can lead by example and police the world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gillis pointed to an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris in which she spoke about Iran. \u201cTheir words to these terrorist organizations was just \u2018don\u2019t,\u2019 where Trump just flat out said, \u2018I’m gonna fucking bomb the shit out of it\u2019 or whatever. It’s like he does not mess around.\u201d Gillis acknowledged that Trump might seem \u201cunhinged,\u201d but believes this same sentiment is why other countries don\u2019t provoke North Korea or Russia. \u00a0\u201cI think he does a good job portraying that [strength] to world leaders out there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The southern border continues to be a huge issue for Gillis. \u201cThere’s so many immigrants, even illegal immigrants here today that deserve to be in this country more than people that were born here. That they’re more productive members of society. But, unfortunately, there’s a shitty, you know, policy in place right now,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He believes that the immigration process should be fixed and that it takes too long to become a citizen, but people still must follow the law. \u201cIf you pick and choose what laws you follow based on your morals, then you might as well throw democracy out the window, and you should just, you know, live as a vigilante,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gillis wished that during the campaign process both candidates focused more time on proposing actual border reform policy rather than bash or blame each other for the current failed policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe world\u2019s a mean place. I’d just rather be on the winning side of that, and if that means we have somebody who’s an asshole, but it means my kids are gonna grow up in a little bit safer world, then, you know, that’s kinda what drives it for me,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Election Day 3:17 p.m. For Tristan Gillis, a three-time Donald Trump voter, this election boils down to security, both on the world stage and on the southern border. \u201cI think we’re still a great country, but I just feel like right now, we’re not necessarily feared,\u201d said Gillis. He believes if Trump is in office, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","pmpro_default_level":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election-day","pmpro-has-access"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/17_Tristan_Gillis_by_Amelia.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Amelia Perrin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/author\/amelia-perrin\/"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/17_Tristan_Gillis_by_Amelia.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1555,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions\/1555"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oregonjournalismlab.org\/Election24\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}