Trump Card: Can fired-up Democratic women (and men) turn Tarrant County blue?
For Veronica Penrod, it was a bittersweet experience, sitting inside the Blue Mesa Taco & Tequila Bar at DFW Airport with Vanessa Adia, munching on chips, salsa, and adobe pie. The “sweet” was that the two friends were about to board a plane for a weekend excursion. The “bitter” was that the television inside the café was tuned to the swearing in of Donald Trump as the nation’s 45th president.
The two Democrats used the same word to describe watching the inaugural ceremony: surreal.
“I was watching people around us just to kind of see what their reactions were,” said Penrod, 35, who works from her Fort Worth home as a creative director for a Chicago-based marketing agency. “I actually felt a little shocked because I felt that most of the people weren’t even paying attention. They were just going about their business.”
Although Trump had beat out more than a dozen other challengers to become the Republican Party’s unlikely nominee, pollsters nevertheless predicted that he would lose to Democrat Hillary Clinton in the general election. For many, Trump’s victory was made all the more shocking because of the 2005 Access Hollywood tape, leaked just weeks before the election, in which he bragged about grabbing women by the genitals. For many others, his victory was all but ensured by the FBI’s highly publicized discovery of new emails related to Clinton only days before the election. The messages proved to be worthless almost immediately, though the mere pairing of the words “Clinton” and “emails” ended up being enough to doom her campaign.
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