Trump, despite countless lies, failure to deal with COVID-19, racist actions, and discriminatory policies toward marginalized groups still lands millions of votes.By: Nicole Lashomb*/Editor-in-Chief—Like many Americans and others around the world, I stayed up nearly all night on election night, clenching onto the presidential election results as they rolled in, slowly, but surely.
Initially, I was in utter disbelief when the results misleadingly represented a Trump win. However, once I realized the vote count we were seeing was highly skewed, mostly displaying same-day votes, I was more than relieved.
Millions of mail-in ballots hadn’t even been counted yet, especially since Democrats were far more likely to vote by mail during the.