Battle of golf carts for election swing

Friends Dorothy Sullivan and Carol McNeal at a pro-Trump golf cart parade in The Villages, Florida.Credit:Matthew Knott.

The Villages, Florida: It is Debi Hahn’s first golf cart parade for Donald Trump, and she came dressed for the occasion.

Complementing the outfit is her green golf cart, plastered in pro-Trump flags, stickers and signs.

Debi Hahn at a pro-Trump golf cart parade in The Villages.Credit:Matthew Knott.

Virtually all major polls show Trump significantly trailing his Democratic rival Joe Biden, but there’s no sense of that here.

In 2016 Trump won 69 per cent of votes here compared to just 30 per cent for Hillary Clinton.

"I don't blame Donald Trump for the virus, I blame him for his lack of action," she says.

A Pew poll released last week showed Biden and Trump splitting the 65-and-over vote evenly.

Other polls show Biden winning among seniors, a turnaround that helps explain why he has built up such a commanding lead over Trump.

Ed McGinty has become notorious in The Villages for his anti-Trump golf cart signs.Credit:Matthew Knott.

McGinty has taken to displaying often crude signs on his golf cart calling Trump "white trash", a "filthy pig" and "Putin's bitch".

A convoy of about 300 golf carts supporting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden heads to an early-voting post in The Villages.Credit:AP.

And last week around 300 Democrats held a golf cart parade through The Villages to drop off their mail-in ballots

Given how close elections usually are in Florida — Trump won the state by 1.2 percentage points four years ago — even small shifts in voter behaviour can have enormous electoral consequences