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.”
The more headlines I see saying how popular Harris is, the more I think it’s going to backfire.
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Backfires backfire.
You too? I see these posts about how calling him weird is so effective and I’m thinking, this is squeezing the juice out of the lemon before you want to make lemonade.
I could be wrong, I mean, I’m not one of the political geniuses like the Democratic strategists that had to be hauled kicking and screaming from running their senile incumbent into a brick wall.
I definitely think that Harris has a better chance than Biden, but I agree. The current surge in optimistic articles about Harris feels like it’s riding a wave of elation following Biden’s withdrawal.
People want to be reaffirmed in their belief in Harris, these articles feed that need.
Worst case, MSM pushing this because the engagement around Biden dropping out has been higher than Trump being Trump.
Might not be a bad thing. But it does seem like a self fulfilling narrative at this point.
Trump is just boring and weird in the bad way. He genuinely makes people uncomfortable and because of that people have stopped looking at stories about him. He’s uncool, unchanging, and unwelcoming.
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.
Once she’s officially nominated, I’m expecting someone to take a shot at her.