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 Bidenā€™s 31.7% in the county. In 2016, Trump won 68.8% to Hillary Clintonā€™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, itā€™s an extreme Republican-strongholdā€”which 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 Harrisā€™s candidacy,Ā reportedlyĀ creating a traffic jam as they showed their excitement for the VP. ā€œYoung people are energized and so are we,ā€ residentĀ Joyce WiegandĀ told Villages-News. Said her friendĀ Karen Wink: ā€œKamala isnā€™t just for young people, sheā€™s for all of us. She supports Social Security, Medicare and health care. That matters to us.ā€

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    Iā€™ve visited in-laws there a couple of times and the support for Trump is insane. Thereā€™s a PA system in one of the squares and theyā€™ll just broadcast Fox News shows over it.

    And if youā€™ve never seen it or been there, The Villages is HUGE and is made up of several very large ā€œneighborhoodsā€ and is for the most part self contained with restaurants, hotels, bars, shops, movie theaters, etc.