Biden’s gathering was socially distanced and focused on the death toll from the coronavirus, while Mr. Biden have been barnstorming the area once more in the final stretch.īoth men held rallies in nearby Tampa on Thursday that underlined the polar-opposite realities each candidate now inhabits: Mr. These days, with most polls indicating that it’s anyone’s guess who will carry Florida, Mr. Parri’s new club as just another curiosity in Pinellas County, Fla., population 974,996. In any other year, one might chalk up Mr. rainbow he found on Amazon and lots of Biden-Harris campaign paraphernalia. “We have about 70 members,” he said, standing proudly next to his Jeep, which he has named Prometheus and decorated with red, white and blue balloons an American flag a Black Lives Matter flag another flag with an L.G.B.T. The Confederate flag also bothered him, he told his fellow Jeep enthusiasts, as did the systemic racism that brought about the killing of George Floyd.Īnd when his words were met with resistance, he founded what he calls a “progressive Jeep club.”
Dan Parri, a lawyer in the city of Clearwater, loved driving around town with the Pinellas County Jeep Club - until some members started festooning their vehicles with Trump 2020 campaign flags.