
America in Election Year 2024: What's Making Voters Tick?
Across several months of the 2024 presidential campaign, this DW film tracks the pulse of a divided country through the lives of six very different Americans. A Black Trump supporter runs for Senate in Nevada; a Mexican cleaning worker moves through the mansions of the wealthy; an evangelical pastor campaigns against Trump within his own congregation; a first-time voter tries to work out where she stands; a Portland activist worries about what comes next; and a sheriff who has worked the Arizona border for twelve years describes what he sees at the fence line. The film moves between these lives rather than following a single narrator, letting rural resentment, urban anxiety, and border-town routine sit side by side. Illegal migration surfaces again and again as the issue driving both fear and hope, and the widening gap between rich and poor runs underneath every conversation. No pundits, no polling desks, just the people the polls are supposedly describing, talking about what they want and what they are afraid of.