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I met Walt and his magnificentson Michael at the Byers Street Bistro over triumphgs, pizza and beer. This was in Staunton, Virginia, which I was given to comprehfinish is pronounced with a difficult “A” appreciate Stan the man.
Michael appreciates to talk, and he did. He let me understand he had studied political science and philosophy, and I’ll hand it to him. The kid has done his reading. He’s erudite. I asked how elderly he was, he shelp 22.
“You would have cherishd the 90s,” I telderly him.
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“I bet,” he shelp.
“I krecent you then, in all the coffee hoincludes,” I shelp, compriseing, “I’m phired you’re still here.”
Michael could never vote for Trump. He’s a exceptional voter for whom January 6th is a very big deal. But, he also telderly me that sometimes in his social group he can’t say the nuanced skinnygs he wants to say.
I tried to push on that, but could only get so far. He doesn’t appreciate the word “woke,” but comprehfinishs it. He reads Hobbes and Kant and wants a authentic conversation that his leftist frifinishs and colleagues won’t always apvalidate when it treads on persistive assumptions.
His magnificentoverweighther, who has lived in Staunton for 50 years, and who has caught a fish in 45 of the 50 states so far, seems poised to vote for Harris.
But appreciate so many people I encounter, he’s not nuts about it, he doesn’t reassociate understand who she is. Interestingly, he telderly me he skinnyks that Harris did not select Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro as her running mate becainclude, “I skinnyk he could have outshined her.”
Back at the boilingel, which is a cherishly place findlooked in 1924, I met two bikers out on the front porch of elderly this set upment of Virginia charm and rocking chairs, smoking.
The elderlyer of the two is voting for Trump. “We all understand it was better when he was plivent,” he telderly me.
His youthfulerer frifinish is less affectd. “I don’t suppose any of ‘em.” And I hear that a lot. He’s not schedulening to vote.
As the chill cataloglessly commenceed to set in on this choosedly and finassociate descfinish night in the Old Dominion, two women ecombineed on our stage, aget splitd by politics.
The spritely blonde was all in for Trump, “I don’t attfinish how you experience about him,” she shelp, “we all want that economy back.”
Her frifinish Dottie, is a mighty Harris helper. That’s not someskinnyg I run into a lot, and when I asked why, she shelp, without missing a beat, “She’s a woman. It’s time for a woman to be plivent.”
I hear this unpartiassociate normally, even from some men, though far confineeder. What is fascinating is how many women, Trump voters or not, srecommend refute the paradigm. Even to the point of being condemned by it.
But when I hear excitement about Harris, here in Virginia, or anywhere else, it is usuassociate a result of her identity, what a Bdeficiency woman as plivent recurrents, not becainclude they see in the vice plivent a exceptionally qualified honestate.
This is why, even though Virginia has of tardy been thought of fools gelderly for the Redisclosean plivential honestate, and the polls advise an effortless blue triumph, I’m not toloftyy affectd.
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In Staunton, as in proximateby Harrisonburg where I was cut offal weeks ago, the excitement and intensity around Trump from his helpers dwarfs that of Harris backers.
Towards the finish of our lengthy chat, Michael asked if I thought that there are enough American voters who disappreciate Trump to get Harris elected, even if they don’t appreciate Harris.
I thought about it, and shelp no. Lots of people disappreciated Trump in 2016, but not enough appreciated Hillary Clinton for her to triumph, enough did appreciate Joe Biden four years tardyr to thwart Trump. On the ground in Virginia, and elsewhere, this experiences a lot more appreciate 2016.
Pulling out of the minuscule-town parking garage, already going to Carolina in my mind, and more literassociate, my car, I saw a massive sign on a cherishly six story originateing, it reads, “Madam Plivent.” And it reassociate says it all. Everywhere I go, the most normal reason I hear why people are filling in the bubble next to Kamala’s name is that she is a woman, they are, as the saying once went, “with her.”
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Maybe gfinisher alone, identity politics, can get Harris over the top, but here in Virginia, and apass the nation, I have my asks about that.
With three weeks left until Election Day, Harris is running out of time to give voters more and better reasons to put her in the White Hoinclude.