Twitter Users Reluctantly Trend #GirlIGuessImWithHer After Clinton Gets Required Delegates
Since the beginning of her campaign, Hillary Clinton has used the hashtag #ImWithHer to garner and indicate support. Every politician needs a good hashtag, after all.
On Tuesday night, when it became apparent that Clinton will almost surely get the Democratic nomination and her supporters vocally reveled in the nomination going to a woman for the first time in history, Twitter user @MadBlackThot shared the following concession:
#GirlIGuessImWithHer #WhatElseIsThereToDo pic.twitter.com/MHUVkjrZpe
— @MADBLACKTHOT (@MADBLACKTHOT) June 8, 2016
Plenty of people who had wanted to vote for Bernie Sanders but who absolutely refuse to vote for Donald Trump felt that the hashtag summed up how they felt, so they got it trending.
hillary scrolling thru the #GirlIGuessImWithHer tag like pic.twitter.com/oIk01zBgxS
— Tracy Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) June 8, 2016
#GirlGuessImWithHer After I leave the voting booth and they offer me a “I just voted” sticker pic.twitter.com/fqeV0xJABb
— ***Chubbyoncé (@BlckPowerBottom) June 8, 2016
How it’s going to feel walking to the polls in November to vote. #GirlGuessImWithHer pic.twitter.com/n7nMJ73i5j
— The Table of Truth (@thetableoftruth) June 8, 2016
Notably, the hashtag was started and fueled by people of color, a community that has long been resistant to Clinton’s message and suspicious of her motives.
When my friends ask if Imma vote for Hillary now #GirlGuessImWithHer pic.twitter.com/8EVV9nWFKt
— Champagne Fondu (@TheSwissK) June 9, 2016
me leaving the voting booth in november #girlguessimwithher pic.twitter.com/ZqJqZygX5z
— brenden (@bianlaf) June 8, 2016
Me giving my vote to Hillary in November #GirlGuessImWithHer pic.twitter.com/3srvW2aLGa
— skyler arbuckle (@skykandie) June 8, 2016
Of course, some people were annoyed by the idea that they will be forced to choose between what they see as two evils, or even be forced to vote at all.
But seriously #GirlGuessImWithHer symbolizes how the elite got us believing that there’s something to lose by not participating/voting
— William J Richardson (@HoodAcademic) June 8, 2016
#IWillNeverStandWithHer I’m not voting out of fear/slave to status quo So HELL NO to #GirlGuessImWithHer https://t.co/1Ea4TaXYsG
— Sabrina (@Z3pp3in) June 8, 2016
The originator of the hashtag, at least, has something to smile about beyond the inevitable vote she will have to cast in November.
“For every1 who despises Trump but isn’t sold on Hillary, this is 4 u.” https://t.co/ALzA3Z3LGO #GirlIGuessImWithHer pic.twitter.com/FETa8b4HHp
— @MADBLACKTHOT (@MADBLACKTHOT) June 8, 2016
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