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Frasier Balzov

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5. Is Draic Coakley a decoy?

Reply to Mark.b2 (Reply #1)

Fri Oct 17, 2025, 09:45 PM

Oct 17

Draic Coakley, a 23-year-old who works in the trucking industry and drove from Heflin, Alabama, just across the western Georgia border to attend his third Trump rally, said he believes Trump “sees people like me,” while “Biden and Harris, well, are part of what I think of as the elite.”

“President Trump may be a billionaire, but it’s OK to be rich,” Coakley said. “He gets us. He just gets us, and he gets the country.”

It does appear to be the same Draic Coakley. A Heflin Alabama address is on his FEC filing. A consultant named William Allan in Monroe WA is listed as the treasurer of his campaign committee. What is going on here?

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Who is the Democrat running in Alabama's 3rd CD? [View all] Frasier Balzov Oct 17 OP

I asked Grok, and it says the only declared Democrat is Draic Coakley... Mark.b2 Oct 17 #1

Thank you! Frasier Balzov Oct 17 #2

Is Draic Coakley a decoy? Frasier Balzov Oct 17 #5

Sadly, we could run FDR and lose Polybius Oct 17 #3

The Less of Trump vote needs a candidate. Frasier Balzov Oct 17 #4

Both sides do it though Polybius Oct 18 #6