22-year-old Audrey McNeal, a former Democratic Nationwide Conference (DNC) delegate for each 2020 and 2024, has publicly endorsed Donald Trump for President.
This shift comes after McNeal attended an Atlanta rally the place she witnessed what she describes as “a real motion of freedom and constitutional values.” Her determination was solidified after what she noticed because the Democratic Social gathering’s growing departure from core American freedoms.
McNeal shared her endorsement in a viral video, capturing the second she switched political allegiance after years as a devoted Democrat.
“In 2020, I used to be elected at 18 to grow to be one of many youngest delegates to the Democratic Nationwide Conference on behalf of my district. And in 2024, I used to be elected once more to return to the DNC as a delegate,” she mentioned.
“However this 12 months, I’m casting my poll for Donald Trump. You see, after I used to be elected in March, which was earlier than Joe Biden’s debate, I wished to go to the DNC as a result of I wished solutions on free speech points, the border, and the economic system. Nonetheless, after reflecting on my time on the DNC, I spotted that it was not the get together of free speech and Civil Liberties that it was once.”
Citing a well-known line by founding father Patrick Henry, McNeal added, “The liberties of a individuals by no means had been nor ever can be safe when the transactions of their rulers could also be hid from them.”
She expressed her dismay at what she described as “hid transactions” throughout the DNC management.
She pointed to selections made with out transparency and accountability, notably concerning the controversial rise of Kamala Harris because the Democrat nominee.
“And for the rulers of the Democratic Social gathering elite to put in Kamala Harris because the presidential nominee by way of stripping the vote of 14 million Individuals, together with their very own delegates corresponding to myself, nicely, that was a choice in a transaction that was hid. And now I’m completely happy to say that I’m formally becoming a member of the Republican Social gathering as a constitutional conservative.”
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I used to be a lifelong democrat, elected to the DNC twice.
I’m voting Trump/Vance in November and becoming a member of the Republican get together as a Constitutional conservative –
we’ve to preserve the freedoms (1A & 2A) we have already got outlined in our Structure. pic.twitter.com/pMk6wMwlx4
— Audrey (@Audreyjmcneal) October 26, 2024
In August, a former Obama intern and lifelong Democrat who attended the DNC and voted for Joe Biden in 2020 took to social media to blast the Democrat Social gathering in a scathing video: the get together is out of contact, elitist, and disconnected from the true struggles of on a regular basis Individuals.
Evan, who has devoted a lot of her profession to working in ‘progressive politics,’ signed as much as volunteer at this 12 months’s DNC, anticipating to seek out renewed religion within the Democrat Social gathering. As a substitute, she discovered herself extra disillusioned than ever earlier than.
“However on the DNC this week, I felt like I used to be in a constructing with essentially the most elite and out-of-touch individuals in the whole world. It very a lot felt like, “Let’s simply have an enormous get together and overlook all of our issues as a result of the vibes are good.”
After I was there, I didn’t really feel any connection to actual America or the place that I come from, which is the Midwest—Kansas Metropolis, Kansas, and Missouri. I didn’t really feel any connection to the folks that I do know proper now who’re struggling to purchase their groceries or pay their hire. The individuals who need to know what each candidates are going to do to materially have an effect on change of their lives.”
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