Posted on 03/16/2024 9:07:46 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Highway signs welcome drivers entering North Carolina to “the nation’s most military friendly state,” and veterans here know they’re being courted. But in a state where camouflage-colored appeals have become commonplace, recent efforts by progressive groups to cut into what has long been a reliably red constituency face an election-year test.
Tar Heel State veterans interviewed earlier this month, ahead of Super Tuesday primary voting in some of the most active-duty and veteran-populous states, varied in their politics, even if they agreed that their military service had informed their opinions.
Ryan Rogers, who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq, said the Biden administration mishandled the August 2021 attacks on Kabul’s airport that killed at least 60 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops during U.S. forces’ Afghanistan withdrawal.
The right-leaning independent voter from eastern North Carolina said he fears the blasts signaled a weakness that could endanger U.S. troops overseas. “I don’t care what side you’re on,” he said. “You better be strong.”
But Ric Vandett, a 78-year-old Vietnam veteran from Hickory, said he could not vote for President Joe Biden’s predecessor, Donald Trump. The left-leaning independent voter said he cannot forget Trump’s refusal to acknowledge defeat in the 2020 election, which, in his view, led directly to the Jan. 6 siege against the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters seeking to block congressional certification of Biden’s victory over Trump two months earlier.
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Otherwise, not any of my military buds will ever think of voting Dem, we remember what dems inflicted on us in the military.
"who “trashes” the likes of the late U.S. Sen. John McCain, Soltz said."
I readily trash that idiot McCain. John Glenn is not far behind.
Someone should tell Associated Pravda presstitute James Pollard what a "siege" is...
They’re just whistling Dixie......Democrats say “they got an opening to win military and veteran votes.”
What vet wold want a bunch of leftie gun grabbers repping them?
John McCain was there for his fellow Democrat senators in the Keating Five scandal.
Evidence that being a nammie does not automatically make one politically astute. A bowl of mashed potatoes likely beats this guy in checkers.
Military service is always respected, individual character is always a separate issue.
Ric has mental problems
Liar. Being a "left leaning independent" you were NEVER going to vote for Trump because Trump is a Republican, period. Doesn't matter what you say he did or didnt do.
"which, in his view, led directly to the Jan. 6 siege against the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters"
No. By federal agents and paid agitators.
Absolutely right! And that's exactly why he's going to vote for Joe.
But think of the hundreds who died of starvation during that 100 day siege!
Bless Ric Vandett's heart.
And the CIA.
LOl.....won 110 out of 100 vets....Biden’s that popular, eh?
Nikki Haley already tried that gambit—and it did not move the needle a millionth of a percentage point.
For those who have not seen it watch what happened when Nikki spent $120M of Nikki-bucks attacking President Trump:
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-primary-r/2024/national/
President Trump was supported by 60% of Republicans before the Nikki attacks—by the time she was done accusing him of everything and anything—including hating veterans—the President’s numbers rose to 78%.
She drilled dry hole after dry hole.
Hopefully the Democrats will keep drilling in the same oil patch.
These are weak-minded, uninformed people.
Stolen, rigged and illegitimate: Democrats’ long history of objecting to election results
Thx.
On the 90th day of the siege, AOC made a stew out of Granny Vodka's poodle, and the desperate Democrat lawmakers were able to make it till the siege was broken by Admiral Rachel Levine and General Milli Vanilli [Girl, You Know It's True!]...
Which is why they have been recruiting the gender-deranged mentally ill.
That phrase needs an * behind it, and then the phrase can be represented by simply adding the *.
For example:
The jan 6 staged event *
The fulton co cheat *
The Trump coup*
The kennedy rubout*
and so on....
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