This guy, David Clayton -- I just learned from a poster on this site -- says he's running against Virginia Foxx next year in the 5th CD as an Independent (he doesn't mention that NC law requires signatures on a petition, completed by next June). I discovered he's got over a half-million followers on TikTok -- kind of eye-opening -- so the required petition to get on the ballot may be no big deal for him (but keep in mind that only residents of the 5th CD of NC can sign the petition of candidacy).
I'm not on TikTok, but I see things occasionally when they get shared. When I followed David Clayton to TikTok -- where he's "Official Empathy Tour" (@DavidBoomer) -- it was like a trap-door opened suddenly beneath me and I fell into a maze of dozens -- probably hundreds -- of short videos of David Clayton's talking head -- often shaded by the bill of a baseball cap -- often beginning with the little poem, "I'm not MAGA. Please don't scroll. I've got a moral compass and a soul." A sample:
Clayton has filed with the FEC. Reported raising $8,112.22. Cash-on-hand at filing: $3,888.06. He's been endorsed by the "blue" influencer Goods Unite Us, best known for tracing dirty money behind various corporate logos.
He's on Blue Sky as "Empathy Tour -- David Clayton," with frequent posting. I haven't found him on Twitter or on Facebook, except for a single reel (which is also a good introduction to his vibe and his message) -- https://www.facebook.com/reel/646712508314181.
I haven't found the campaign website that I've seen him talk about, with all the biographical info I'm missing and would like to know. It would possibly take the rest of my life to look at all that TikTok material, but something of a biography might eventually be stitched together. One tiny bit: He's not a veteran, though you'd probably cast him as a tough Marine trained for hard duty, but he's an intellectual on what's happening to our nation. He might have gained early followers from actions he took to help homeless veterans "across 33 states" and four years of his life (he says), but that's as much detail as I've gleaned. (Perhaps that charity was the genesis of "Empathy Tour?").
Incidentally, he talks directly about the performance of Virginia Foxx. He doesn't pull punches.
3 comments:
You're correct that details are vague. Just saying "I'm Antifa" and claiming to help veterans is kind of pitiful. There have been many other instances of
"too good to be true" in politics. TicTok is all performative and sending coins to
those who entertain. It has no rigorous analysis. Madam must go, but not
just any replacement will do. Keep looking.
Maybe you should step up and run yourself.
Or is it easier to fling cow patties from the cheap seats?
Cow pies r us!
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