A Democratic activist in Flint isn’t holding back on his thoughts about Vice President Kamala Harris’ embarrassing campaign, and what her loss means for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Arthur Woodson, a Flint activist and advocate for veterans, unloaded on the Democratic Party and Harris’ campaign in a Facebook Live post in the wake of the VP’s defeat to Republican Donald Trump.
“Her team was an ass-backwards team. They were in an echo chamber. A lot of them was stealing the money,” Woodson said. “They was some damn idiots.”
Flint communist activist Arthur Woodson blasts the “ass backwards” Kamala Harris campaign for surrounding itself with “weak-ass men”: pic.twitter.com/xnWFaHg4S7
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“She had no real men around her. She didn’t have no men who would actually get out here and damn get on the ground and fight, know what I’m saying,” he continued. “They were weak-ass men around her.”
Woodson compared Harris’ “weak” supporters to claims from Democrats “Trump like weak women around him.”
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“I don’t know, man. She had a bunch of weak-ass men around her, for real,” he said.
Woodson, who previously partnered with the Biden White House as part of its “Cancer Moonshot” initiative, also lamented Harris’ reliance on “corrupt” local officials, “fake civil rights leaders like Al Sharpton,” and Hollywood elites to deliver her message, which he said fell flat with Black voters in Flint.
“They didn’t deal with the people,” he said. “They dealt with all these fake, corrupt elected officials and fake civil rights leaders like Al Sharpton, bringing them to Flint.”
“Don’t nobody trust him, don’t nobody like him — keep him away from me. … He don’t excite nobody here,” Woodson said of Sharpton. “The people tired of seeing actors and actresses and all these other people.”
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Woodson also provided his insight into why he believes Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is “happy as hell” that Harris lost the 2024 contest to Trump.
Flint community activist Arthur Woodson explains why @gretchenwhitmer is “happy as hell” that Kamala Harris lost: pic.twitter.com/GKyul7TumO
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“There’s fighting going on within the Democratic Party, they’re just not saying nothing, right,” he said. “Let me tell y’all something, Governor Whitmer happy as hell Vice President Harris lost, because it’s supposed to be Vice President Whitmer, not Vice President Harris.”
“That seat was stolen from her. (Former Michigan Democratic Rep.) Brenda Lawrence … and all them told Biden if you don’t pick Vice President Harris to run with you, we’re going to cause hell. He was strong armed into picking Vice President Harris,” Woodson said. “Whitmer is still furious about this. She really didn’t want to campaign, but she couldn’t show any hate because she probably could have gotten into the administration for the four years.”
“She didn’t want to show no hate, for real, but she kind of figured she wasn’t going to win,” Woodson said of Whitmer’s thoughts on Harris. “The person she thinks can win as president is Whitmer. Whitmer only think Whitmer can win. So why do I want to wait eight years, because if she loses all I have to do is wait four years” to run for president due to term limits on Trump.
Woodson also discussed Harris’ VP pick, and her campaign’s failure to address actual concerns from Flint’s Black population, including the economy and inflation, both issues that Trump campaigned on relentlessly.
“I kept calling the campaign, ‘Hey, listen … it don’t even feel like a presidential election year,’” Woodson said. “You barely had anybody going door to door to pass out literature for Harris … And I don’t even know who was over (at) her headquarters in the city of Flint because you didn’t see them.”
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“How in the world can you be in a Democratic city and Trump have more yard signs than than Vice President Harris?” he asked. “The community was never aware … what the game plan was, I mean, nobody knew nothing.”