Yesterday Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump walked into the same fire station in Pennsylvania. They received quite different receptions. The press loves to debate how many people attend Trump’s rallies, but the enthusiasm gap in this election is painfully obvious:
Biden, Harris, and Trump all visited the same exact PA fire station yesterday.
See if you can spot the difference…pic.twitter.com/GlizVmfBvw
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) September 12, 2024
Of course, Harris does occasionally receive a warm welcome when she drops in on diners, retail establishments, and so on. In one instance, patrons at a diner complained loudly that they had been kicked out and replaced by actors who had been bused in from somewhere else. They said that the people who were seen in a video conversing warmly with Harris were those actors.
Then there was Kamala’s appearance at Penzeys Spices in Pittsburgh. Her campaign circulated a video that made it look like random shoppers were solidly behind Harris:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTZYPFL5MMU
But wait! Does the name Penzeys Spices ring a bell? It might, if you are a regular Power Line reader. I wrote about that company in 2016, here. Penzeys, a substantial spice company headquartered in Wisconsin, has announced that it doesn’t want Republican customers:
“The open embrace of racism by the Republican Party in this election is now unleashing a wave of ugliness unseen in this country for decades,” Bill Penzey Jr. wrote in a Tuesday night email to the company’s mailing list. “The American people are taking notice.”
And on Facebook:
You just voted for an openly racist candidate for the presidency of the United States of America. … [Y]ou just committed the biggest act of racism in American history since Wallace stood in the schoolhouse doorway 53 years ago.
After that, my wife threw out a large number of Penzeys spices and bought replacements from a competing company owned by Bill Penzey’s sister, who says that politics don’t belong in business and all customers are welcome.
So, yeah, Kamala Harris can find a warm welcome here and there. But don’t be fooled by her campaign’s implication that the people who fawn over her are random citizens.
