ROCKY MOUNT, N.C.—The 2024 presidential election is only the second election in which 38-year-old Cody Morris has voted. He says he chose to vote this time because he remembers a “way of life” he’d like to see again.
Despite having “the best job I’ve ever had and [making] the most money I’ve ever had,” Morris told The Daily Signal, “it feels like I’m worse off than when I made the least in my life.”
“I can’t even afford basic stuff,” Morris said.
Morris and his girlfriend, Aysha Maryland, cast their ballots Monday afternoon for former President Donald Trump at Braswell Memorial Library here in Rocky Mount in North Carolina’s Nash County.
Both are longtime residents of the county, which Democrat Joe Biden won over Republican Trump by 120 votes out of over 50,000 cast in 2020. Democrat Hillary Clinton lost the county to…