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.”

  • @snekerpimp
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    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.

    • @cultsuperstar
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      I wonder how many of them realize Republicans want to defund Medicare and Social Security.

    • Verdant Banana
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      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

      • @PlantJam
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        “Look at all the bad things republicans did, why did democrats let this happen?”

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          Removed, see the new civility guidelines.

          • Cadeillac
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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

            • @jordanlundM
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              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.

              • Cadeillac
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                Thank you for the response and clarification

      • @Xanis
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        Okay. 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.

        • @PlantJam
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          At least they show us who they are by using Democrat when democratic would be grammatically correct.

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          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

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      • @StupidBrotherInLaw
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        Sure, but what about the Republicans?!
        -All the American libs in this thread