1y ago

Hundreds Turn Out for Kamala Harris in Florida Enclave That Hasn’t Voted for a Democrat Since 2000

www.vanityfair.com

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.”

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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.
- 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
  
  "Look at all the bad things republicans did, why did democrats let this happen?"
  
  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.
  
  Sure, but what about the Republicans?!
  -All the American libs in this thread
- I wonder how many of them realize Republicans want to defund Medicare and Social Security.
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.
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.
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.

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