About a hundred people gathered in Woodstock, Georgia Saturday evening to participate in a Biden/Harris Victory Celebration.
“This is a great turnout tonight,” one supporter told me. “It’s mostly support [from the cars], which is great to see. And unexpected — this is a pretty conservative area.”
Woodstock, a town of approximately 30,000 residents, is located 30 miles north of Atlanta in Cherokee County. 29.5% of voters cast ballots for former Vice President Joe Biden while 68.4% went for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
“As long as it doesn’t turn violent, we can have Trump supporters on one side of the street and us on the other,” one man told me. “We can shout at each other all night long [if it comes to it], as long as it doesn’t go to blows and bullets.”
No blows or bullets were in sight Saturday evening, while supporters waved signs and danced to the tune of car horns and a small speaker system. A few hecklers, teenagers mainly, came to try and stir trouble, but quickly lost interest in a crowd that was more focused on celebration rather than provocation.
“I feel great,” one woman told me. “I brought the whole family out, my girls and all.”
A handful of teenage girls stood at the edge of sidewalk, waving an array of signs at passing traffic.
“One, he’s not Donald Trump,” she told me, when asked why she voted for former Vice President Joe Biden.
“But two, he’s a good and decent person,” she continued. “He has values. I know that he’s going to put integrity back into the office. He may not be a perfect president, but he’ll be a good and decent president, putting integrity back into the presidency for Americans and for the world.”
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