FURIOUS Starbucks customers have reacted to an alleged boycott of the chain after it was falsely claimed to be a sponsor of the Republican National Convention.
The US Sun obtained opinions from convention attendees and ordinary citizens on the streets of downtown Milwaukee after the News that Starbucks is facing online boycotts.
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The campaign appears to have started on X after a post with the claims went viral.
“After years of identifying itself as a progressive employer, Starbucks is now sponsoring the Republican National Convention,” the post said, quickly racking up thousands of likes.
Starbucks, a company based in Seattle in famously liberal Washington, is run by CEO Howard Schulz.
A #boycottstarbucks hashtag quickly trended on X, with another user describing the coffee giant’s move as “savage.”
But a company spokesperson denied that it is sponsoring the RNC.
Jaci Anderson told the Associated Press that the company is providing coffee at five RNC locations to first responders who work at the RNC in an official capacity, including paramedics, firefighters and the National Guard.
Starbucks is providing this support in partnership with the Milwaukee 2024 Host Committee – which is not the same as the RNC.
Erin Kingsweeney, born and raised in New York but who has lived in North Carolina for five years, laughed off allegations of a Starbucks boycott.
“This makes me want to buy more Starbucks coffee,” she joked, sitting outside the Fiserv Center, where Donald Trump will address his supporters on Thursday as he formally accepts the nomination to be the Republican presidential nominee.
“I’m fed up with cancel culture,” she added. “Frankly, if Starbucks supports the DNC, that’s not going to sway me one way or the other.”
And she called for a reduction in political tensions following last Saturday’s shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“I think the recent assassination attempt should wake us up to stop demonizing, stop canceling, have a coffee and a bottle of soda. wine after.”
Nicholas Perkins of Chicago also described the boycott as “wrong,” adding, “People need coffee.”
He said people who support the boycott simply “don’t like coffee.”
Republican National Convention Summary
Republican voters and lawmakers stood united as they gathered at the Republican National Convention to formally announce Donald Trump as the party’s presidential nominee.
First day of the RNC:
- More than 2,000 Republican delegates attended the Milwaukee Fiserv Forum the week of July 15, 2024, to officially recognize donald trump as his presidential candidate for the 2024 elections.
- Republican Party representatives from each state pledged their delegates to Trump.
- As delegates voted, Donald Trump announced in a Truth Social post that he chose the Ohio senator JD Vance as his running mate in the 2024 elections.
- Vance, 39, who was present at the conference, took the stage after the call and received a standing ovation from his Republican constituents.
- Later that night, Trump made his first public appearance since surviving an assassination attempt at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024.
- An emotional Trump was greeted with wild applause as he took the stage to join his vice presidential candidate, sons Wear. Junior. It is Is richand fellow Republicans.
- Trump was photographed wearing a bandage on his right ear after a bullet from an AR-15-style rifle ripped a chunk out of his ear days earlier.
Second day of the RNC:
- The Republican Party stood united during the second day of the RNC, praising its presidential candidate with support and admiration.
- GOP leaders touted law enforcement, border security and public safety as they trashed the Biden administration.
- Trump’s most prominent major adversaries, including Nikki Haley It is Ron DeSantisaligned with the former president’s policies, while also apparently rescinding their previous statements about Trump.
- “I haven’t always agreed with Trump. But we agree more often than we disagree,” Haley said, adding that Trump invited her to speak at the conference.
- “President Trump asked me to speak at this convention on behalf of unity. It was a gracious invitation and I was happy to accept.”
- Florida Governor DeSantis, whom Trump once called Ron DeSancimonious, expressed full support for the former president.
- “Donald Trump was demonized, he was prosecuted, he was sued, and he almost lost his life. We can’t let him down and we can’t let America down,” DeSantis said.
- The Florida governor and former presidential candidate added, “We need a commander in chief who can lead 24 hours a day, seven days a week. America cannot afford another four years of a ‘weekend’ Bernie presidency. ‘”.
- Other Republican Party heavyweights such as Ted CruzMarco Rubio, Sara Huckabee Sanders, Vivek Ramaswamy and Ben Carson have pledged their support for Trump.
Kiran Nagendran, who visited the RNC for the first time from London, had a more balanced view.
“I think everyone has the right to do whatever they want,” he said, also commenting on the number of corporate sponsors he saw at the RNC compared to party political conferences in the UK.
“Maybe Starbucks is getting more blame than others because there just aren’t many companies out there to exit.”
Nagendran praised Schulz for keeping Starbucks “pretty apolitical” but added that the coffee was “pretty mediocre.”
“Here, every second person you see is carrying Starbucks.”
Cody, 26, of Milwaukee, was outside the perimeter surrounding the sprawling downtown convention center where the convention took place.
He said that while he did not support the RNC’s Starbucks boycott, he personally stopped drinking his coffee several years ago due to what he called Howard Schulz’s “anti-union practices.”
Regarding the boycott, he added: “If that’s what people want to do, it’s their right, it’s part of the whole free market, right?”
To him he said, “I will continue Sinking!”
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