Leadership Quote by Katherine Harris

The sentence is a masterclass in political fog machine rhetoric: airy, buoyant, and almost aggressively non-specific. Katherine Harris isn’t trying to inform; she’s trying to signal momentum. “The state” stands in as a vague, authoritative backdrop, while “all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida” expands into a flattering blur that can mean donors, party officials, activists, media allies, or simply anyone whose endorsement might matter. The point is less who is supporting her than the fact of “overwhelming support” itself, repeated as a feeling.

The subtext is coalition-building under uncertainty. Harris, forever associated with Florida’s election controversies, knows that legitimacy is a currency you have to keep re-minting. So she reaches for the language of unanimity and enthusiasm: “overwhelming,” “so important,” “so exciting.” It’s a crowd she’s conjuring, not citing. The repetition of “so” works like applause lines in verbal form, a performance of confidence meant to crowd out skepticism.

Context matters here because Florida politics is a pressure cooker where procedural authority and public trust collide. Harris’s phrasing sounds like a candidate or official attempting to reframe the story away from process and toward popular mandate. It’s political weather report language: not the data, but the forecast. By the end, excitement becomes evidence - a substitute for specifics that might invite argument, and a shield against the one thing her career can’t escape: scrutiny.