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Amid the gleaming vintage cars and towering combines on display at the Carroll County, Maryland, 4-H Fair, I found a throng of voters to talk to, curious if they thought President Joe Biden was still running the country. No one said yes. Not one.
When I asked Marge, a local in her 60s who works for a home improvement company, she initially just laughed and said, “No, not at all.” As she handed out American flags at her booth, I prodded a little and asked her when she thought Biden had stopped leading. “About a year,” she replied, then added, “But it’s getting worse and worse,” referring to Biden’s decline.
Meanwhile, Mark and Bob, the two farmers sitting at the American Legion table, don’t think Biden has ever been in power, though they acknowledge that it’s much more obvious now. So who do they think is in power? “I don’t know,” Mark says. “Maybe Obama. Maybe the Cabal. Joe has never been in power.”
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“This is President Obama’s third term,” Bob interjected, not really cutting corners like an old friend would, “and if Kamala wins, it’ll be her fourth.”
Mark told me he hadn’t always been a big Trump supporter, and when I asked him what had changed, he replied, “When Trump spoke at the March for Life, [in 2020] It meant a lot to me. No president thought that, but we go almost every year.”
Mark was drawn to Trump because he believed it was a personal choice for the former president, a risky choice and one that came from Trump’s heart, not a cookie-cutter focus group decision.
On July 23, 2024, President Biden departed from Dover Air Force Base in Dover, Delaware and boarded Air Force One. (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)
Carroll was described as the most Republican county in the Old Line State, and that was indeed the case: Trump shirts were everywhere, flags were everywhere, food stalls had few vegan options, and kale was only available on display, so it was hard to believe I was in a heavily Democratic state.
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House candidate Kim Klacik is looking to capitalize on the situation by running as a Republican for the open seat left by Democrat Dutch Ruppersberger. Also, due to the 2022 redistricting, website 538 changed the district from “Strong Democratic” to “Leans Democratic.”
“This is President Obama’s third term,” Bob interjects, not giving much away like an old friend would, “and if Kamala wins, it’ll be her fourth.”
While it’s still a little unlikely, Classic has campaigned with School Board candidate Dr. Greg Malveaux, so it’s clear she has supporters in the area. “I heard you on the radio,” one middle-aged man approached her and told her. “What you say makes a lot of sense.”
Since politics is all local, the conversation also touched on education (I spotted a Mothers for Freedom tent nearby – they’re becoming everywhere) and the Democrats’ controversial plan to put giant power towers on people’s farms in the name of environmental protection.
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The people I spoke to have returned to the national political stage time and time again. They, like much of the media, have not recovered from the Trump assassination attempt, and at least one person I spoke to has doubts about the role of the Secret Service and the FBI.
What was remarkable about the consensus that Biden had been put to pasture like a prize cow at a livestock show was the complete lack of shock, horror or anger, rather a sense of resignation that we are now simply governed by committee.
No one I spoke to particularly liked Vice President Kamala Harris, but they didn’t dislike her either — rather, they felt she was irrelevant, merely a figurehead who could be almost anyone.
There was a strong sense, not for the first time since Biden withdrew, that in the minds of some voters, this was no longer a choice between Trump and Harris, but between Trump and the deep state.
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It turned out to be a fair so I took my son along too. When we got back to the car my son realized he’d lost his phone. I thought maybe it was on the picnic table where we had eaten, but it was definitely there. A gentleman with a trucker hat who was there with his family handed me the phone and said “we were passing it around and we figured someone would come and get it.”
I handed it to my son and told him to be more careful. I said it in a stern tone, but I was laughing to myself because I guess we’re not in Brooklyn anymore.
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