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I don't know that that's true. he says outrageous things, i guess that's refreshing. >> allen: you know, i gave up on political saviors a long time ago. i'm not going to be naïve and go ahead and say that i think that there is going to be one individual, especially in government, that's going to turn everything around. trump can bring change and it's very quite simple. his offensive, incendiary nature can send a word out to these assholes -- i'm sorry, these individuals that so-called represent us in congress, senate, whatever, if people get frustrated enough, they're going to put somebody in...

Oh, eliza ♪ ♪ little liza jane ♪ ♪ ♪ >> anthony: for years here the base was what was called a "west virginia democrat." hard line on the second amendment, religious, pro-union, with a record of voting reliably blue. those days are gone. >> allen ladieri: but you know, i'm a high school dropout, military. i'm a veteran. there is a smell on the earth itself here in west virginia that when i was away, when i was in the army, that your soul rots away, it feels like you can't smell it. or you look up and you see the

Sun, all the way set. here it disappears around 4 o'clock. >> anthony: allen lardieri is a former tanker in the us army, and what he calls "constitutional conservative." he is solidly pro-trump republican. however distant from mr. trump's new york city background and gold-plated lifestyle he may be. >> allen: you'll see a lot of parallels in rural west virginia that you see in the inner-city. >> anthony: i see a lot of parallels to places i've been. school districts that are starved, opioid addiction, teenage pregnancy, food deserts, you know where there ain't nothing but fast food. >> allen: ...

Everybody else talks around us or whatever, this man talks just like us. like how we talk to each other in the mines. it ain't pretty, it's straight talk. >> anthony: well, you know, they say he tells it like it is. i don't know that that's true. he says outrageous things, i guess that's refreshing. >> allen: you know, i gave up on political saviors a long time ago. i'm not going to be naïve and go ahead and say that i think that there is going to be one individual, especially in government, that's going to turn everything around. trump can bring change and it's very quite simple. his offensi...

>> anthony: what can you do? >> drema: pray for them. that's all we can do. ♪ oh, eliza oh, eliza ♪ ♪ little liza jane ♪ ♪ ♪ >> anthony: for years here the base was what was called a "west virginia democrat." hard line on the second amendment, religious, pro-union, with a record of voting reliably blue. those days are gone. >> allen ladieri: but you know, i'm a high school dropout, military. i'm a veteran. there is a smell on the earth