Sipping tea from beer mugs with his co-workers, Kyle Bos listed the ways his life is changing.

Bos has two daughters, with a third due in January. At the grocery store, five items cost as much as a full cart once did. And on Wednesday, Bos and nearly 1,400 other people were laid off from their jobs at what had been the Navistar truck factory in southwestern Ohio.

The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area. And they are one reason why Bos, 30, plans to spend the final weeks before the November election canvassing votes for Democrats.

Asked how many times he had voted for Trump, Bos held up three tattooed fingers. But he said he’s done with the president.

“Something has to change politically in this country,” said Bos, a member of the United Auto Workers who identifies as a centrist. “Seems like it just kept getting worse and worse and worse.”

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    7 hours ago

    Family member of mine said it’s because the the Democrats have the Senate and Representatives… He was/is brain washed and didn’t realize who is holding power right now

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      I have to make sure I heard that correctly. You’re saying you have a family member that believes the House and Senate are currently controlled by democrats?

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        2 hours ago

        That is correct. He didn’t believe it when I told him. I think when you hear fox news all day you’re left with that assumption