An Electric Election Streams Across the United States
An Electric Election Streams Across the United States
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Vice-President and Democratic presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, speaking at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on August 22, 2024.
By Casey Dyer
The time to elect a new President and Vice President of the United States has come and gone. With this year’s race being between the Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, Vice President, and the President Elect, Donald Trump.
According to Forbes, as of September, both candidates are neck- in- neck in winning chances. Though on November 5, the day of the election, anything could have been possible.
Chelsea Rivenbark, history teacher, said before the election, “While right now, both [Trump and Harris] have good chances, I think it will be much more obvious who will win after the debate. That is usually how it has happened in past elections.”
Brayden Krasnopera, senior, said, “I plan to vote for the Republican Representative Donald Trump. I am voting for him because he is for the working class, and while I try to work, but it is hard to make money when all these prices are rising”
Krasnopera wasn’t alone, as many others around the country voted for Trump. He had the support of Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world as well as the CEO and founder of Tesla and SpaceX. Trump also was endorsed by Hulk Hogan, who actually spoke on the last day of the Republican National Convention.
Many politicians supported Trump as well, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ran as a third party earlier in the election. This is extremely important as the Kennedy’s have been a historically liberal family, so a member of them supporting Trump is unheard of.
Still, Harris was a popular choice on both sides of the political spectrum, as both Democrats and Republicans seemed to like Harris. At the Democratic Convention, where Harris officially got the nomination, popular Democrats, like Barack and Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, and former president, Joe Biden voiced their support for Harris. Republicans like Dick Cheney had also shown support for Harris. Even Mike Pence, the former vice president of Donald Trump, showed his support for the Democrat. Clearly, many Republicans find Trump’s policies or ideals to be dangerous for the country, which shows how close and polarizing this election is going to be.
Though not everyone was for either candidate. Mark MacLeod, senior, said, “I will be 18 by the elections, but have not yet registered. I’m not inclined to discuss who exactly I’m going to vote for, but I would say that I’m not particularly fond of either candidate.”
Even in post-presidential and vice-presidential debates, voters were divided. It may have been just as close as it was in the 2020 election.
Despite the two candidates’ differences, they both went for a similar strategy in this race, as they both seemed to aim more for the urban and common man in their campaigns.
Rivenbark said, “It’s obvious that both candidates are aiming for the more urban audience of voters, which their Vice President picks go with very nicely.”
Trump’s running mate, J. D. Vance, is from southwest Ohio, a military veteran, and has only been a member of the US Senate since 2023. Harris’ pick, Tim Walz, is also a military veteran, a former teacher, and has served as governor of Minnesota since 2019. It’s clear that until their plays in politics, they were just normal people.
As the election neared, Donald Trump began to lead in the polls. This came to a head on election day when Trump won by nearly four million votes, making him the forty seventh president of the United States and the second president to win two, nonconsecutive terms. The only other president to have this distinction is 22nd and 24th president, Grover Cleveland.
As his innaguration nears, Americans wait to see what the next four years under the Trump administraation will bring.
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President and winner of the 2024 Presidential Election, Donald Trump, at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in July, after the attempt on his life at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, where his right ear was damage. To the right is the First Lady, Melania Trump.
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