Willow Al-Shamma admits she was ‘nervous’ about wearing the hat in public in such a Trump-friendly area.
Camouflage hats are common in rural northern Michigan, but the one that Willow Al-Shamma of Leelanau County donned when setting off from home on what just happened to be Halloween bore two names that folks in her deep red community would not likely wear even as a costume.Al-Shamma runs the TikTik account for the Grand Traverse County Democratic Party. Grand Traverse split nearly evenly between Democrats and Republicans in 2020.
The 49 year-old bookkeeper believes that many of the important issues include women’s right to reproductive health care. Her 24-year-old daughter lives in Arizona, which means she could be denied potentially life-saving measures if such an urgency arose. Supporters of Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. president Donald Trump raise MAGA hats, on the day Trump returns for a rally at the site of the July assassination attempt against him, in Butler, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 5, 2024.
“We were just kind of both looking at like the meat,” Al-Shamma recalled “And, she looked right at me and she gave the thumbs up” She then went to pick up some take-out burgers at a tavern. She was waiting for the food when the woman handling the order did a double take.Al-Shamma proceeded to a gas station and encountered a woman who in the past had covered her home, barn and yard with Trump and MAGA signs. That had all vanished, but Al-Shamma did not know the woman well and was not sure what to make of it. What happened next was still unexpected.
“Guys, there’s something happening,” she began. “I think that the women of Michigan know that we need to protect our basic reproductive health and rights for us and our daughters and their daughters. And I think we’re gonna see that in the poll results, in the voting results here in Michigan.”A supporter of Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a MAGA hat during a rally at Gaylord Rockies Resort and Convention Center in Aurora, Colorado, U.S.
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