Trump’s strength in Florida shows in working-class Pasco County

The MIami Herald ^ | September 16, 2016 | Adam C. Smith, Tampa Bay Times

[2ndDivisionVet]

HOLIDAY, Fla. — Donald Trump’s prospects for winning the White House will probably rise or fall among the strip malls and 1,000-square-foot ranch homes of southwest Pasco County.

In this working-class suburb of Tampa Bay, finding people enthusiastically supporting Hillary Clinton is tough. Finding people enthusiastically supporting Trump is less difficult.

Finding people fed up with the status quo is a piece of cake.

“It’s not that I like Trump that much, it’s that I dislike Hillary so much. I don’t think [Barack] Obama did anything for us, and I see it continuing with Hillary. At least with Trump, there’s a chance for some change, and I’m all for change,” said 66-year-old retiree Ken Seekford, plunging into a bowl of soup at Jimmy’s Restaurant in downtown New Port Richey.

A lifelong Democrat who moved to Pasco from Maryland two years ago, Seekford is so turned off by Clinton that he switched his registration to Republican after watching the Democratic National Convention.

“Look at everything she was caught in,” he said. “With those emails, somebody asks her, ‘Did you wipe your hard drive?’ And she says, ‘What do you mean, with a rag?’ Come on, she’s smarter than that.”(continued)

[Travis McGee]

[LS]

Dude, good to see you.

[M Kehoe]

Good evening.

Methinks Adam C. Smith knows that Pasco Co. goes Republican.

What he is really saying is that Pasco will go Trump.

Right Adam?

I bet that frosts your nads, Adam.

Right?

5.56mm

[ncalburt]

Adam the Dem operative at the St Pete Slimes ( the over changed it name because it has an awful far left reputation ) is scared .

This is good..

The St Pete Slimes created that phony Dem fact check scam Polifact the far left uses to fool someone not too sure still believes it .

[mkleesma]

Thats where I live!
TRUMP all the way!

[ConservaTeen]

St Pete Slimes... Don't you mean the Tampa Bay Slimes? The only paper in the Tampa Bay Area...

RIP Tribune...

[af_vet_1981]

“It’s not that I like Trump that much, it’s that I dislike Hillary so much. I don’t think [Barack] Obama did anything for us, and I see it continuing with Hillary. At least with Trump, there’s a chance for some change, and I’m all for change,” said 66-year-old retiree Ken Seekford, plunging into a bowl of soup at Jimmy’s Restaurant in downtown New Port Richey

Trump has had to overcome a hostile media and his own mistakes. It is telling that all that negative advertising has not taken him out of contention. On the contrary, he is poised to win. Focus on ideas. Pray without ceasing.