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 Bidenās 31.7% in the county. In 2016, Trump won 68.8% to Hillary Clintonās 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, itās an extreme Republican-strongholdāwhich makes new enthusiasm for Kamala Harris there not great news for Trump!
Over the weekend, hundreds of golf cartsĀ paradedĀ around the Villages in support of Harrisās candidacy,Ā reportedlyĀ creating a traffic jam as they showed their excitement for the VP. āYoung people are energized and so are we,ā residentĀ Joyce WiegandĀ told Villages-News. Said her friendĀ Karen Wink: āKamala isnāt just for young people, sheās for all of us. She supports Social Security, Medicare and health care. That matters to us.ā
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. Heās uncool, unchanging, and unwelcoming.