Posted on 08/08/2019 2:25:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
TALLAHASSEE — Have gun, will vote?
Florida Republicans working to reelect President Donald Trump will send volunteers to a gun show this weekend as part of a broader effort to sign up new voters in the battleground state.
An internal “Trump Victory Team” email circulated Thursday, days after a pair of mass shootings stunned the nation, said the upcoming gun show in South Florida was “a great opportunity to make sure people are up to date on their voter registration and know more about the efforts of the Trump administration to address public safety and second amendments rights.”
Democrats quickly criticized the effort, with Florida Democratic Party Executive Director Juan Peñalosa accusing the GOP of “promoting [National Rifle Association] propaganda” in the aftermath of shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.
“It's dangerous and frankly unbelievable that after a weekend of back-to-back mass shootings that the Trump campaign and the Florida Republican Party would promote registering voters at gun shows,” Peñalosa told POLITICO in an email. “It is more evidence that they are in the pocket of the NRA and completely out of touch with the American people.”
Republican Party of Florida Chairman Joe Gruters defended the plan to solicit voters at the gun show.
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Trump was elected by patriots with “conservatives” screaming hollering until the last.
Nothing like a preemptive nuclear strike on a phantom though.
I’m waiting for the next gun show at the Florida State Fairgrounds, I’ll wear my MAGA hat and my Trump/Pence 2020 T shirt.
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