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The Villages, of 'white power' video fame, overwhelmingly donates to Trump - Business Insider
Jul 02, 2020 1 min, 42 secs

"Great people" is how President Donald Trump described residents of The Villages in a video retweet he'd later delete because an elderly man shouted "white power.".

People within the five Zip codes that cover The Villages — located about an hour's drive from Disney World — are together providing Trump's reelection campaign nearly $11 for every $1 they're giving presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden's 2020 campaign, an Insider analysis of Federal Election Commission records indicates.

"There are more Trump flags than anywhere else I've seen — and I just drove an RV for 3,000 miles around the South," said Peter Schorsch, a political consultant and publisher of Florida Politics, noting that The Villages residents' many modest-sized contributions help balance out the Trump campaign's big-dollar donors.

The Trump 2020 campaign has already collected significantly more cash from The Villages' residents than it did in 2016, when it raised about $200,000 from them, according to federal records.

The Villages' Trump campaign bankrollers are led by Mark Morse, the community's own developer.

None of this phases Al Butler, a resident of The Villages and Sumter County, Florida, commissioner who's written the Trump campaign several small checks.

King, who lives in The Villages, has made 20 separate contributions to the Trump campaign since 2017?

Rory Baker, whose husband, Dale Baker, has made more than 30 small-dollar contributions to the Biden campaign, said Trump's retweet of the "white power" video is not only "disgusting, bigoted and racist," but motivating, too

While the Trump campaign enjoys a significant lead in available cash (more than $108 million entering June) over the Biden campaign (more than $82 million), the Biden campaign raised slightly more money during the month of May

While Biden has effectively no chance of winning over the majority of votes in The Villages, his campaign is bullish on Florida, on balance

The Trump campaign, as well as officials at The Villages, didn't respond to requests for comment

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