In the aftermath of the US election the divisions caused by the vicious battle remain.
Ava from Chicago had been crying all morning. She’d woken up to the news Donald Trump would once again be occupying the White House and was distraught.
Not only was the Republican candidate on course to win the presidency but he was also set to do so emphatically defeating rival Kamala Harris in every single one of the battleground states.
Ava had to battle with the fact that a man she felt put American values to shame would be leading the country for the second time.
The student felt the education system was to blame for Trump’s re-election, but the truth was that she had supporters of the former president within her own family.
“The majority of my family are Democrats, but I have like a couple of family members that live down in Florida and they’re Republican,” she explained.
“We usually try to avoid conversations like that. But I’ve been texting my uncle for weeks and weeks and weeks trying to debate with them.
“I got no luck with that. I know he doesn’t want to open that conversation with me because he knows I’m very passionate about keeping our democracy.”
However, after Trump’s victory, she had no plans to call her uncle.
“I’m not really interested in having that conversation today,” she said with a sigh, “and I’m not really interested in having that debate with them either.”
Hearing the two sides of American politics describe each other it can feel as if Democrats and Republicans come from two different planets.
But traveling around the USA it quickly becomes clear Ava is far from alone in having a family split divided by the country’s bitter partisan politics.
On the leafy banks of Lake Michigan, Chris Kellems felt strongly about her neighbour’s pro-Trump yard signs.
Source : https://www.the-express.com/news/politics/154957/donald-trump-us-election-kamala-harris