Inside Northampton County, where voters flipped from Obama to Trump

Trump has divided America. Can he really make it great again?

For this long-term series following Donald Trump’s inauguration, Tom McCarthy spent time in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, home of the defunct Bethlehem Steel mill and one of only 209 counties in the US to vote for Trump after voting for Barack Obama twice. Northampton has been climbing back since the steel plant closed in the mid-1990s, but some locals say the new jobs can’t compare with the proud work at the mill, and residents describe a sense of untapped potential. McCarthy wanted to know what moved voters, and what Trump supporters hoped the new president would do about jobs, healthcare and immigration – and how they hoped he would restore what some described as a lost way of life. McCarthy will ask voters whether they feel that Trump has delivered: is America on its way to being great again?