“When we fight, we win” (“When we fight, we win”): Kamala Harris repeated her famous campaign slogan for the last time on stage at Howard University, in Washington, DC, on the afternoon of Wednesday, November 6. “But sometimes the fight takes time. That doesn’t mean we won’t win. The important thing is to never give up. “Never stop trying to make the world a better place.”she added combatively and visibly moved. Dressed in a brown suit, under the golden light of the end of an autumn day, the vice president finally appeared before her followers who had waited for her, in vain, the day before.
The defeat was bitter for the Democrats, after the enthusiasm of the campaign and the polls that, without being optimistic, were far from predicting the reality of the red wave that swept the country. Erin Carter, coming from Massachusetts to hear the Democratic candidate’s defeat speech, lifts her glasses to wipe away a tear. At 65 years old, she is approaching retirement and is upset by what she considers a lack of rigor on the part of the electoral institutes: “I would really like to have an explanation for why they got it so wrong. I have the impression that they no longer make the slightest effort to try to do things right! They already made a mistake with Hillary Clinton in 2016, it’s a shame. »
Like her, many wonder about the reasons for M’s failure.me Harris. Andrea Bechtel fights every day for women’s political and reproductive rights through an organization in Chicago, Invest to Elect Illinois. Wearing his T-shirt with the colors of the American flag, he tries to smile, despite the emotion that catches his throat. When asked about the reasons for the defeat, his voice breaks: “I don’t know, I don’t understand it. » Could it have changed the game for the vice president if the current president, Joe Biden, had resigned sooner? “It doesn’t seem like it to me. “I think there are too many people in this country who are simply not prepared for what she has to offer.”She makes herself sad.
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This sentiment is shared by Ashley, who declines to give her last name. At 27 years old she is full of bitterness: “I wouldn’t say Vice President Kamala Harris has failed. I would say it was the American people who failed him. » With short hair dyed blue, Ashley participated in the campaign of Angela Alsobrooks, the victorious Democratic senator from Maryland, the first black person to obtain this position in the state. But this local feat was not repeated in the presidential elections, despite a campaign that she considers successful: “ [Les démocrates] It gave disappointed and desperate people the feeling of having someone to fight for. And it was beautiful for a hundred days. »
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