The VP appears pretty popular in the Villages.
The Villages is a 55-plus retirement community located in Sumter County, Florida that has not voted for a Democratic candidate in a general election since 2000. In 2020, Donald Trump won 67.8% of the vote compared to Joe Biden’s 31.7% in the county. In 2016, Trump won 68.8% to Hillary Clinton’s 29.5%. In 2008 and 2012, when Barack Obama carried the state, 63% of ballot castors in Sumter voted for John McCain and 67.2% for Mitt Romney, respectively. In other words, it’s an extreme Republican-stronghold—which makes new enthusiasm for Kamala Harris there not great news for Trump!
Over the weekend, hundreds of golf carts paraded around the Villages in support of Harris’s candidacy, reportedly creating a traffic jam as they showed their excitement for the VP. “Young people are energized and so are we,” resident Joyce Wiegand told Villages-News. Said her friend Karen Wink: “Kamala isn’t just for young people, she’s for all of us. She supports Social Security, Medicare and health care. That matters to us.”
Why? It’s almost universally what people on all sides were whining about online and in person.
Biden old!
Biden forget words!
Now we have a younger candidate, and now there is only one old as fuck white guy running. I’m excited too. So should others.
You do you tho!
I’m happy about it. It also scares me that people might just assume it’ll be fine and not vote. Like the brexit referendum that barely passed because a large chunk of the population assumed not that many people would vote against it.
That lessen was learned in 2016, I’ll bet there will be a record turn out on the Democrat side. I also bet the republikkklown turnout will be less. 34 felonies and pissing on democracy will turn away some voters, the cult however will vote.
People get fatigued hearing this stuff daily, and it creates pushback against the intended recipient.
Or they become encouraged. It sure beats not saying anything at all.