Trump voters hail controversial cabinet picks as the government they want

Trump voters in the American heartland are excited, even as senior Republicans are less than enthusiastic about some of the president-elect's choices

In the American heartland, they're excited. Finally, say voters who put Donald Trump into the White House for a second time, they are about to get the president they wanted all along.

Even as leading Democrats decry Trump's cabinet nominations as agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance", the former and future president's supporters are interpreting the selections as evidence that he has finally broken free of the Washington establishment.