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.”
I’ve visited in-laws there a couple of times and the support for Trump is insane. There’s a PA system in one of the squares and they’ll just broadcast Fox News shows over it.
And if you’ve never seen it or been there, The Villages is HUGE and is made up of several very large “neighborhoods” and is for the most part self contained with restaurants, hotels, bars, shops, movie theaters, etc.
The more headlines I see saying how popular Harris is, the more I think it’s going to backfire.
Backfires backfire.
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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!
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.
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.
Once she’s officially nominated, I’m expecting someone to take a shot at her.
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If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.A University of North Florida poll in Florida finds Donald Trump leading Kamala Harris in the presidential race, 48% to 42%.
Of course, Harris hasn’t fought for the state yet.
This is an amazing thing. The Villages is usually redder than red. Hope.
It still is. These articles are very misleading. The Villages is absolutely gigantic. As nice as it is that some of the Democrats living there are fired up and making themselves visible, they are still well in the minority. Ultimately, my hope is that enough of them show up on election day and keep showing up so that as the Boomers die and the following generations take over, the political makeup there starts to change.
To anyone reading this article, please don’t let “good news” lessen your urgency to vote.
Start showing them how their party is out to hurt them, show them the leopards will eat their face if they go to that “leopard face eating” party. It can happen to them. It WILL happen to them. I hope more people are opening their eyes. No shame in changing your opinion due to new to you information.
I wonder how many of them realize Republicans want to defund Medicare and Social Security.
Biden has been a Democrat politician for half a century
in those fifty years Roe v. Wade was never properly defended, our wages have stagnated since the 60s, both parties supported funding police/ prisons, cannabis legalization is stalled and has been, and the list goes on
Democrats should at least have to show that they are pushing back with more than just lip service
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I honestly don’t know how to ask this with out possibly coming across as a smart ass. I get antagonizing is the wrong thing to do. Understood. Do I really just have to let misinformation and bad faith go unchecked?
Edit: The rule literally states act in good faith. The OP clearly is not
Oh, absolutely not. If you think someone is a bad actor, report them. If you choose to engage, do so on the merits of what they’re saying rather than accusing them of being a bot or a shill.
Thank you for the response and clarification
Sure, but what about the Republicans?!
-All the American libs in this threadOkay. So, you’ve explained how Biden is bad as a proxy of the larger democratic party. Now I want you to give us the same for Republicans.
I mean you won’t, people like you never do. But hey, may as well challenge every single one I come across.
At least they show us who they are by using Democrat when democratic would be grammatically correct.
Some interesting reading on this subject:
https://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/the-democratic-or-democrat-party/
they show us who they are
someone who doesn’t like democrats? that’s most people.
did not know had to
they are so very raucous and boisterous with their destruction on their own did not think they needed any more words
what about the antivaping laws Trump expanded on that Obama first put out that caused the US to go backwards in harm reduction when it comes to addictive substances
both parties have held US citizens hostage under the boot of fascism but we keep thinking they are our only option much like an abused spouse that refuses to leave
Kay.
Who else would you recommend as an option?
“Look at all the bad things republicans did, why did democrats let this happen?”
Eric Andre intensifies
This but actually
