America’s Long National Nightmare is Coming to an End
The people have spoken and they have elected Joe Biden
The official announcement was made on this day, November 7th, 2020, that Joe Biden was elected as the next President of the United States of America. The call came down as vote tallies in Pennsylvania and Nevada were irrefutably blue in their numbers. When the remaining votes are counted, the final results will be Biden with 306 electoral votes, and Trump with 232. This announcement comes on the 48th anniversary of Joe Biden’s being first elected as a Senator. Donald Trump was given the news while on his golf course.
This feels like such an unburdening. Despite the turmoil and absolute chaos of the past four years, with every day seemingly nothing but a bearer of insanity upon insanity, this election was a nail biter. It should have been a landslide. Somehow, millions of Americans, over seventy of them, still decided to side with Trump’s legacy of lies, division, and outright prejudice. Thankfully, there were just more people than that who were resolved to see this blight on our national stage removed from the spotlight. As such, a huge weight has been lifted. America did the right thing.
Let’s all take a moment to breathe. Relish the power of democracy at work. But, then we must continue the push toward…
