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Oct 28 • 14 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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🧵🧵🧵I went to Clayton County, GA - where 70% of voters are black - to hear their thoughts on Donald Trump.

I now believe the polls showing him winning record support among black voters.
“If you wanna start your own business, Trump is the man for you. If you wanna live off the government, that would be Kamala.”
“The country’s been run horribly the last four years. When Trump was in office things were a lot better…Kamala’s consistently flip flopping on policies.”
“I feel like Kamala’s a puppet for the Democratic Party…Trump’s views on protecting the border are on point.”
“When trump was in power he was doing a much better job…People are losing their jobs for other people that are coming in the country.”
“Trump gives me answers to questions…When they ask Harris ‘Are Americans better off than they were four years ago?’ I don’t hear an answer.”
I’ve talked to thousands of voters the last 8 years. In the past, most folks not voting for Trump completely despised him.

What surprised me was how many Harris supporters still had good things to say about him.
“He actually has some views that I kinda like. I don’t like the transgender things that’s going on, with the men competing in women’s sports…So, I kinda like him, but I don’t.”
“Trump has some good points…He could run America real good as a business honestly. And he’s unapologetically him. You can’t help but respect that.”
For decades, Republicans have only won 5-10 percent of the black vote every presidential election.

Polling this year shows Donald Trump with 17-25 percent support.
If he gets anywhere near that number, it’s difficult to envision a scenario in which Harris wins states like Georgia or North Carolina.
I still found plenty of Harris voters in Clayton County and the surrounding area.

Abortion and racism were the top two reasons they gave for supporting her.
Call it anecdotal, but I spoke to black voters all day and found a 50-50 Harris/Trump split.

This was in a county with the highest percentage of black residents in the state. It went for Biden 85-15 last election.
Is there a chance Harris still wins 90% of the black vote? Sure.

But based on my experience in Atlanta, I would be shocked if Trump doesn’t bring in record numbers of black voters.

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Oct 30
I spoke to 1000+ voters from around the country this election.

Here’s what I learned about Trump and Harris supporters. 🧵🧵🧵
First, 99% of the time when someone was wearing a shirt or hat with an American flag/patriotic slogan, they were a Trump supporter.
It's indisputable at this point that outward displays of patriotism are overwhelmingly confined to the Right.
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Oct 19
I went to North Carolina to see the Hurricane damage for myself.

However bad you think things are — they are worse 🧵🧵🧵
We started in Swannanoa, a small town 30 minutes outside Asheville. Much of the main drag is gone, while entire residential streets have been swept away.

It felt like a movie set.
It’s important to understand that the vast majority of homes in town were not considered to be in a flood zone, meaning most have no flood insurance.

Nearly every local I spoke to said they never even considered that water could get anywhere near their homes.
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Oct 2
Twenty years ago this week, my entire family would have died if not for my brothers retainer.

Here’s the story 🧵🧵🧵
In October of 2004, my family spent the day at a pumpkin patch outside town.

Before leaving, one of our car batteries died, so my dad turned on the other car to jump it.
When we got home at 9 that night we realized the car had been left running in our garage the entire day.
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Oct 1
I spent a day in Minneapolis to see what life is like under Tim Walz.

What I found was a city in decline. 🧵🧵🧵
This is the spot where George Floyd died. 4 years later, it’s been turned into a shrine.

Across the street lies the shell of a gas station burned down by rioters. Buildings on every corner of the block now sit vacant.
A few blocks away sits the burned out shell of what was once the Minneapolis PD’s Third Precinct headquarters.

Bullet holes are still visible in the exterior.
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Dec 19, 2022
In the last fifty years, the average male’s sperm count has dropped by 62 percent and testosterone rates are down over 30 percent.

We know what’s causing the drop, but very few leaders seem interested in talking about it. So let’s talk about it.
Last month, researchers conducted the largest study on male fertility in history, analyzing data from every region on Earth across the last 50 years.

They found that the average male now has 49 million sperm per ml. In 1970, the average man had 104 million sperm per ml.
The team also discovered that the rate of sperm decline fell rapidly starting around the year 2000.

From 1970 to 1999, sperm rates dropped by 1.1 percent annually. From 2000 to 2018, they dropped 2.6 percent annually.
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Aug 9, 2022
The FBI has:

-Tried to get MLK to kill himself through blackmail

-Lied to the public about their knowledge of serial sexual abusers

-Intentionally placed innocent Americans on no-fly lists

And people still act like they’re incapable of acting unethically for political gain?
If someone tells you the FBI would never break the law or lie to the public, they’re telling you they aren’t familiar with American history.

There are plenty of good people there, but since it’s inception the FBI has routinely been used for partisan purposes.
Here's the letter the FBI sent MLK, trying to get him to commit suicide (after they'd illegally wiretapped his home.) Image
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