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Global Questions: Trump's America: A Nation Divided?

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Trump's America: A Nation Divided?

21/10/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Global Questions, Trump's America: A Nation Divided?

What have voters in South Carolina made of Donald Trump’s first year in office?

A year ago South Carolina decisively voted for Donald Trump to be the US President - what have voters made of his first year in office?

Charleston, South Carolina – a city steeped in American history. The first shots of the American Civil War were fired here and roughly half of all enslaved African’s passed through Charleston’s port. 
 
A year ago this state decisively voted for Donald Trump to be the US President and what a year it’s been. I’ve come here to find out what voters in the South make of his first year in office. He boldly claimed to make America great again but has he succeeded?
 
He’s certainly polarised opinion - His reaction to racial tensions, attempts to repeal Obama-care, plans to build a wall on the Mexican border, a travel ban on Muslims and his fiery rhetoric with North Korea – all this on top of reports of an administration in chaos with resignations and sackings in the White House.
 
Global Questions brings you a top panel of political figures and key decisions makers and they’ll take questions from a local audience. 

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Marsha Blackburn is the Republican Congressman for neighbouring Tennessee 

Dr Bernice King is the youngest child of the iconic civil rights leader Martin Luther King and currently runs the King Centre in Atlanta, Georgia.  
 
Mark Burns is a native of South Carolina and has been  described as Donald Trump’s top pastor by Time magazine.   

Jaime Harrison is based in Columbia - the capital of South Carolina – and seen by many as the future of the Democratic Party. 
 
Frank Luntz is one of America’s best known political and election consultants and strategists.  

Producer: Ben Carter

(Photo:Zeinab Badawi and guests are in Charleston, South Carolina to take questions from a local audience about Donald Trump’s first year in office)

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