Fox News co-host Martha MacCallum kicked off Wednesday’s debate by placing the song at the center of the night’s discourse.
“It was funny seeing my song at the presidential debate ’cause it’s like, I wrote that song about those people, so for them to have to sit there and listen to it, that cracks me up,” singer Oliver Anthony said. | Kendall Warner/The Virginian-Pilot via APThe artist behind a chart-topping track that has become a conservative anthem and was the focus of the Republican primary debate’s first question said the song was “written about the people on that stage.
“It was funny seeing my song at the presidential debate ’cause it’s like, I wrote that song about those people, so for them to have to sit there and listen to it, that cracks me up,” singer Oliver Anthony said in a“Rich Men North of Richmond,” which currently holds the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top 100, speaks to the “overtime hours” and “bulls--t pay” experienced by working-class Americans, placing the blame on “these rich men north of Richmond.
“Washington, D.C., is about 100 miles north of Richmond,” MacCallum noted after playing a clip of Anthony’s song. “Why is this song striking such a nerve in this country right now?” In response, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis immediately invoked GOP talking points — Bidenomics, Hunter Biden and congressional spending — as hallmarks of the song’s appeal to conservatives.
“Our country is in decline,” DeSantis said. “This decline is not inevitable, it is a choice. We need to send Joe Biden back to his basement and reverse American decline. And it starts with understanding we must reverse Bidenomics so that middle class families have a chance to succeed again.”“That song has nothing to do with Joe Biden, you know, it’s a lot bigger than Joe Biden,” Anthony said. “That song is written about the people on that stage.
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