The trouble with American election nights is that the results come too late in the night to really celebrate victory or mourn defeat. And when we find ourselves among the Republicans, the only source of information is the conservative channel Fox News. Nevertheless, in Lancaster County (Pennsylvania), in the John Wright family restaurant, located on the banks of the Susquehanna River, the mood was optimistic, Tuesday, November 5, among the approximately 200 Republicans gathered between television screens, red and blue balloons and American flags.
“I am confident that we will win Pennsylvania”confided Kirk Radanovic, president of the Republican Party of Lancaster. “I saw incredible participation in rural areas”he explained. These were decisive in counterbalancing the Democratic cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and winning this undecided state. At 8 a.m. (French time), Wednesday, November 6, the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, had around 200,000 votes ahead of his Democratic rival in this state, and most media even gave him the winner.
Kamala Harris’ original fault? “I don’t understand why she didn’t choose our Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, as her running mate. Maybe because he’s Jewish. He is not my cup of tea, but he is very popular in the state. Tim Walz [le gouverneur progressiste du Minnesota] was a very weak candidate”. Mme Harris did not choose Mr. Shapiro because the left wing of the party did not want the governor, considered too pro-Israel, and his personal ambitions were considered too strong.
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Kirk Radanovic explains Donald Trump’s very likely victory by Biden’s record: “We’ve had four years of Biden-Harris. In total, 70% of Americans say the country is heading in the wrong direction. We would have had the same thing. There, Trump will fix the economy and secure our country. » The Democrats are accused of letting in millions of migrants, of failing to prevent the war in Ukraine and Gaza and of having suffered humiliation by leaving Afghanistan in 2021. But Mr. Radanovic explains that the Cumulative inflation, which reached 20% under Joe Biden’s mandate, is the primary cause of discontent, “because it hits the most vulnerable and [que] it is not because it falls nominally that high prices disappear. They stay there.”
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