The most historic presidential race has ended with what most expected: another man to run the country. Donald J. Trump has been elected as the 47th president of the United States. Mixed emotions overcast the country, followed by the colors of red and blue, which have become deeply ingrained symbols for these political parties during U.S. elections.
Kamala Harris officially became a presidential candidate on January 21, 2019, when she announced her campaign for the 2020 Democratic nomination for President of the United States. However, on a calm Sunday, President Joe Biden made an announcement of a lifetime that he would no longer be running for President during the 2024 election. As if the country hadn’t erupted with massive jaw drops as is, he then moved on to say, “Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year,” in a Twitter post less than four months before the election.
As reporters, writers, and commentators continued to gather information about the election overnight; news broke roughly around 4 a.m. EST that Trump was expected to win the election when he won one of the significant battleground/swing states.
Americans need to understand that this was not a campaign about policy. This was simply about the person, and Republicans rallied behind Trump. There were massive gains in the Hispanic community for Trump, so huge that a whopping 54% of Latino men voted in Trump’s favor, and 37% of Latino women as well. Unfortunately, the comments Trump made during his first debate against President Joe Biden must not have been too derogatory when Trump called Latinos “terrorists and rapists.” Disregard the fact that the United States has a recorded, registered number of 127,436 rapists on its own soil.
Let’s also keep at the forefront of our minds that the Republicans have won the U.S. Senate majority. Winning the U.S. Senate majority means that a political party (Republican) has secured control over the Senate, which gives it significant power in shaping national legislation and confirming presidential appointments. In other words, #Project2025 has been put in position. Of course, if you are a proud Republican voter this year, you wouldn’t have to worry about this if you don’t have children or don’t have a desire to want any children. Don’t have parents/grandparents on social security. You aren’t interested in wanting or needing an education either, considering the plan to abolish the Department of Education. Overtime will be cut drastically, along with ripping immigrant children from their mothers, and we can’t forget about the ban on abortion medications.
Does the gender gap play a factor in this? No, not at all. If you think about it and look at the numbers in different states, especially the battlegrounds, Trump did way better than he did when going against Biden in 2020. The country proved a point that black women are made aware of every day: Harris was an overqualified black woman who lost to a felon. Vice President Kamala Harris is a black female in an interracial marriage; she was far beyond too much change for the country to handle. Kamala Harris might have lost the battle, but she did not lose the war. She proved that women can compete at the highest echelons of power. Harris, by far, exceeded expectations with this campaign. She crushed Trump during the debates and raised an enormous amount of money. Harris never missed the mark; she hit every single one and some. Shirley Chisholm walked so Kamala Harris could run. Kamala Harris ran so someone else could break that glass ceiling.
Everything should not be about race; however, would she have lost if Kamala Harris were a 6-foot-4-inch white male from Florida who was married with two children? It makes you think. Fear and anger are what was leading for Trump, and it prevailed. Franklin D. Roosevelt said best, “The trajectory of our nation is forever upward. There are setbacks, and it sometimes feels like peaks and valleys, but the trajectory is always upward.” Never surrender to fear and anger.
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