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In It to Win It

(8,224 posts)
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 11:27 AM Oct 2020

Trump's Proud Boy moment sparks Black outrage in Florida

TALLAHASSEE — President Donald Trump’s shoutout to the far-right hate group Proud Boys is energizing black voters to turn out against him in the must-win state of Florida.

“His call to the white supremacist group Proud Boys to ‘stand by,’ and telling his followers to go to the polls and watch them, that is straight up voter suppression,” said incoming state Minority Leader Bobby DuBose, a Black Broward County Democrat.


https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/09/30/trumps-proud-boy-moment-sparks-black-outrage-in-florida-1319240
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Aristus

(66,275 posts)
2. Get out the vote.
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 11:29 AM
Oct 2020

It would be wonderful if the margin of Joe Biden's victory consisted entirely of people Trump and his followers hate.

SWBTATTReg

(22,059 posts)
4. These guys and rump are sparking outrage everywhere, among all of us, and make us more determined
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 11:43 AM
Oct 2020

than ever to get out and vote these POS out of office / out of the WH.

We outnumber the idiots by only a minimum of thousands for every one of them. Millions of us vs. maybe 5,000 of them total.

Thugs, simple as that.

BComplex

(8,017 posts)
5. I hope it rallies black voters in Georgia and South Carolina and Alabama and
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 11:47 AM
Oct 2020

Mississippi and Louisiana and Tennessee and everywhere else in the country.

efhmc

(14,721 posts)
6. Maybe it might rally some on the fence whites also who finally see the truth
Thu Oct 1, 2020, 11:58 AM
Oct 2020

about DJT. Although why it would take this long is a good question.

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