Barbara Puckett, a 55-year-old mom who lives in Beattyville, a small town in Kentucky, noticed a change in Trump’s tone.

“He wasn’t as aggressive as he usually is. He was calmed down,” she tells CNNMoney. She’s one of many who say Trump makes her hopeful again — hopeful that jobs will return to her struggling town and that the nation will be safer. She also thinks Trump is right to crack down on illegal immigration.

“Lots of people don’t like the idea of building a wall, but I agree we have to stop illegal immigrants from coming in and getting welfare and food stamps,” she says.

Ivan Torres immigrated legally to the United States from Ecuador decades ago. He earned a master’s degree and settled in Reading, Pennsylvania. He is concerned at how U.S. immigration and customs officials are treating Latinos, but he voted for Trump because he thinks his blue collar town needs more (and better) jobs.

“Everybody was deeply moved by the moment by Carryn Owens,” says Denise Edwards, an African American Trump supporter in Detroit. “People will talk about that for days and months to come.”

“When he mentioned all the new jobs, they just sat there pouty-faced. They were going to hate Trump no matter what,” Edwards says. She doesn’t understand why they can’t even celebrate jobs in their towns.

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