The problem with American election nights is that the results come too late to really celebrate the victory or lament the defeat. And when we are among the Republicans, the only source of information is the conservative channel Fox News. However, in Lancaster County (Pennsylvania), at the John Wright family restaurant, located on the banks of the Susquehanna River, the atmosphere was optimistic, on Tuesday, November 5, among the nearly 200 Republicans gathered between television screens , red and blue balloons and American flags.
“I am confident that we will win Pennsylvania”confided Kirk Radanovic, chairman of the Lancaster Republican Party. “I saw incredible participation in rural areas”he explained. These were instrumental in countering the Democratic cities of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and winning this swing state. At 8 a.m. (French time) on Wednesday, November 6, the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, had about 200,000 votes ahead of his Democratic rival in this state, and most of the media even gave him the winner.
Kamala Harris’ original fault? “I don’t understand why he didn’t choose our Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro, as his running mate. Maybe because he is Jewish. It’s not my cup of tea, but it’s very popular in the state. Tim Walz [le gouverneur progressiste du Minnesota] “He was a very weak candidate.”. METROme Harris did not choose 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.
Kirk Radanovic explains Donald Trump’s very likely victory due to Biden’s record: “We have had four years of Biden-Harris. In all, 70% of Americans say the country is headed in the wrong direction. We would have had the same. There, Trump will fix the economy and protect our country. » The Democrats are accused of having let in millions of immigrants, of having failed to prevent the war in Ukraine and Gaza and of having suffered humiliation by leaving Afghanistan in 2021. But Radanovic explains that the accumulated inflation, which reached 20% under the mandate of Joe Biden, it is the main cause of discontent, “because it affects the most vulnerable and [que] It is not because it falls nominally that high prices disappear. “They stay there.”
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