r/PoursTea • u/tinyhousefever • 6h ago
PoliticalTea 🗳️ Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons)
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u/Ok_Record_9908 6h ago
C'mon Young Voters!! Trump won last time because young voters didn't vote. Trump no longer has Latino or younger voters. Let's show Trump that we hate fascism and we absolutely hate MAGA! 🌊💙VOTE BLUE 🌊🔵VOTE DEMOCRAT 🌊🔵💙
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u/Spankpocalypse_Now 4h ago
I don’t know. The 18 to 35 year old male demographic seems more conservative now than it did the first time Trump was elected.
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u/Ok_Record_9908 3h ago
I really think we got a more than solid chance to flip most states Blue. Look at all these kids marching. I think it's safe to say they're not conservatives or Maga Republicans at all. There's millions of young voters that are completely against voting out of racism and bigotry like conservatives and Maga Republicans.
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u/Spankpocalypse_Now 1h ago
I sincerely hope you’re right, but we’ve heard this sentiment every two years since Republicans went full crazy.
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u/Callingouteverything 6h ago
Good. Hopefully they all voted blue.
Everything about the current administration needs to GO.
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u/WildRabbitz 5h ago
I'd seriously reconsider my political affiliation if I were a Conservative student who just had the biased school board remove the on-campus polling site. There's a reason why they desperately want to hurt the educational system.
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u/Critical_Kingdom 4h ago
I was talking to my Dad the other day. We are both Canadian. He's a boomer. We agreed this is not a single administration thing. Everything is broken, and those who vote for change will not see it without some courage I don't see in the establishment. It's rotten all the way down.
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u/Jtz001 6h ago
Yeah it's over for Trump.
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u/Connect-South4139 6h ago
That's what i said when i couldnt get into the Kamala rally in Philly. The line stretched for blocks. We see how that turned out.
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u/Due_Night414 5h ago
90M eligible voters couldn’t be bothered back then. Now that their cost of living has doubled, they’re bothered. Trump support was a lot higher then, too. Now? Not so much. It’s not to the point that they’d vote democrat but it’s to the point that they won’t vote at all. Addition by subtraction.
The concern here is the DOJ. Already sending warning letters to Cali about 20,000 voters. Saying if Cali counts them (claim is that these specific 20k are ineligible to vote), prison time is waiting.
If just 10% of those who didn’t vote in 2024 turn out, that’s 9M people. 20k is nothing. Yet DOJ is trying to intimidate and influence. Todd Blanche is frumps personal attorney. Now he’s the Federal AG.
I’m glad to see that people will not bend to attempts to suppress. I’m wondering how far this will go.
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u/Antique-Coach-214 2h ago
Not just Cali, four states at least, have fought it.
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u/Due_Night414 1h ago
Problem is WHEN midterms don’t go his way, he will sick Blanche on it and “find” fraud.
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u/Kowalski711 5h ago
Counterpoint : went to a Kamala rally in Dekalb county with Obama as the first speaker. Waited in line 6 hours to get in.
The moment Obama stepped off the stage and Kamala starter her speech, the crowd started leaving in droves.5
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u/No-Cheek7925 6h ago
It's not over until the votes are counted. Don't make that mistake a third time.
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u/One-Detective63 6h ago
If they actually get counted that is.
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u/No-Cheek7925 6h ago
If they never get cast it's a guarantee that they won't be. If this election does not draw a record turnout something is very wrong. It's the last chance to end this peacefully, I hope everyone gives it a try. Defeatism can be saved for December if it does indeed get stolen.
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u/MrCleanMagicReach 5h ago
It won't be a record turnout. It looks like it will be a record midterm turnout though. Americans are still dumb af and think only the presidential race matters. A big part of the reason why we're in this timeline.
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u/TheDarkKnightRevises 4h ago
Ironically a good thing in the Trump era since it would mean a lot of the low engagement Trump voters are staying home since he's not on the ballot.
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u/abitworndown 4h ago
I hate to be called a cynic but after admitting that Russia and musk helped trump cheat his way to the White House by suppressing votes and creating votes that didn’t exist, there is 0% chance it won’t happen again. Unfortunately I think he’s here to stay for a very long time.
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u/CuTe_M0nitor 6h ago
Yeah he got voted as president twice. Both time people said no one is going to vote for him. Instead go and vote and get two other to vote against him then we can speak
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u/WildRabbitz 5h ago
He will do anything he can to stop that from happening.
I'm more looking forward to his obituary so his base can see how much the entire world will celebrate when the orange pedophile is gone.
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u/Gilead-is-here 4h ago
We better hope so, not just for the sake of our nation but for the sake of the world.
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u/SparksAndSpyro 6h ago
That’s great. But I wish it didn’t take a wannabe dictator to motivate people to vote.
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u/Sad_Pay_9089 6h ago
Congratulations to them for exercising their constitutional right.
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u/Born_Consequence3025 5h ago
They just shouldn’t have to get so much exercise to do it…
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u/TailoredHam88 4h ago
They shouldn’t. But I’m not surprised. Democracy is often a messy exercise of power that requires the people to take the streets to remind the elites that they’re a small minority.
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u/Unique_Watch2603 6h ago
I'm proud of the young people getting out and making sure their voices are heard no matter what. 🫶
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u/ADeliciousDespot 6h ago
This is nightmare fuel for conservatives. Don't stop.
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u/alsatian01 2h ago
Bc they are racists it actually encourages them to vote in an election they might just stay home for.
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u/MyPr0j3ct 6h ago
Way to go...they will think twice or three times because that's thousands of votes being casted and counted for change.
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u/techman710 6h ago
People who are serving the public encourage voting. People who are serving themselves discourage voting. We need to overcome their road blocks and throw them out so we can get real leaders.
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u/Responsible_Ladder25 6h ago
The more you try to stop someone from doing something, the more they’ll want to do it. Kudos to these young people for refusing to be stopped.
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u/champagnesupernova62 5h ago
Greensboro, North Carolina and North Carolina A&T have a long history changing this country. Very proud to be in Aggie ...even if it's only in spirit.
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u/Dharmabud 5h ago
Nothing says we don’t want you to vote quite like removing a nearby polling place.
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u/Terrible_User4987 5h ago
ELI5 what this means? I will assume some trumpy shit to restrict easy access to voting for people of color? so, these kids are a show of solidarity in "fine, we will vote over here then and show you"?
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u/epicredditdude1 5h ago
Republicans removed voting locations at a black university in an attempt to prevent people that will likely vote D from voting. It’s just a naked attempt at voter suppression.
It’s not working. They’re voting anyway.
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u/BoulevardNoir10 5h ago
This is exactly why Republicans will continue to "win." They've made it so hard for people to vote. Good luck, everyone in the U.S.
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u/Mainly_Miserable 5h ago edited 4h ago
Don’t let momentum, polls, and headlines convince you that you don’t need to vote.
Exercise your franchise. Get out there and vote.
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u/maybeinoregon 5h ago
Yes! Good for them!
The powers that be, don’t want voting to be convenient.
Technology allows our license on our phone, medical records on our phone, insurance on our phone, credit cards and banking on our phone. The idea that the world is going to unravel if we make voting convenient is a fallacy sold by the people who want control, purchased by the same people who voted in an illiterate.
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u/Dry_Counter533 6h ago edited 5h ago
To everyone who says kids these days are too brain-rotted to care about politics, I point you to the Gen Z revolutions in
- Nepal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nepalese_Gen_Z_protests
- Madagascar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Malagasy_protests
These kids literally toppled their governments.
The kids are engaged. Here and around the world.
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u/Electrical-Drama-755 5h ago
YES AMERICA. THIS is what it's all about. These fascists won't last. Keep up the energy!
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u/serinmcdaniel 4h ago
There's a story (in Tim Tyson's "Blood Done Sign My Name," which is excellent) about the Greensboro sit-ins. Members of the NC A&T football team showed up at the lunch counter just in case someone should decide to beat up the protestors. A shopper looked at this absolute wall of muscle and said, "Who ARE you?" and a football player answered, "The Union Army."
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u/Smart-Firefighter87 6h ago
Yeah - if the younger generation does their job and vote, he should be out as expected lol
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u/Think_Tooth1675 5h ago
Limit what people can do and it may just backfire. Perhaps instead you should spend more time working on policies that can improve America lives?
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u/Spankpocalypse_Now 4h ago
Pleasantly surprised at the absence of deranged comments about “streets are for cars” and “marching like this only pushes people to the other side.”
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u/LasVegas4590 2h ago
As despicable as the county board’s action was, it probably backfired. They made voting a social event. My guess is that more students voted because of this.
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u/imspecial-soareyou 3h ago
I hope the seemingly transparent great AG Jeff Jackson steps in to not just help but also talk to these students!
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u/rflulling 2h ago
Wisconsin not long ago was the test bed for this insanity. Reducing polling sites, reducing operational hours. I don't remember if it was Wisconsin or another state where they first tested stripping poling sites from universities. Its a little known secret that ballots are loaded specifically at certain times of the year to take advantage of students being at campus or away. Politicians see student votes as substantial a threat as they do from, liberals, democrats, or any other people who might disagree or disobey.
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u/westport_blues 5h ago
This is sad, so sad.
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u/Hayduke_2030 3h ago
The fact that suppressive GOP pols closed the campus polling stations to try to prevent these kids from voting is absolutely sad.
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u/nimblybimbly3000 6h ago
How does the county board get to decide to remove voting sites? Shouldn’t that be approved by the voters? Those board members need to be thrown on the rack.