Saturday, July 7 (local time), Washington, DC is mid-fall. The leaves are turning gold throughout the capital and neighboring suburban cities. It was a very beautiful day. Very sunny, temperatures up to 24 ° C, not like the cold of every year. Everywhere, many people flock to the park to relax their minds after nearly a week of stress due to the root cause.
There was a traffic jam so I had to detour. Thanks to that, I admired the Washington, DC purchase
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Today is the fourth day after the election, but the United States has yet to elect its president. Democrats can breathe for a few days, smiling and waiting for a resounding victory after the night of 3.11, worried they won’t be able to sleep. Republicans, on the other hand, are indifferent to the increasingly unfavorable numbers on their side. They were even angrier and angrier when President Donald Trump and his associates repeatedly accused Democrats of cheating on votes in battle states.
Newspapers continue to cover the vote count in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina and Alaska. Always display the photo of President Donald Trump leaving the White House to play golf in Sterling, Virginia after days of heart attack waiting for the results. Everyone wants the vote counting process to end quickly to find the president in the next four years and focus on economic development, fighting epidemics, not being able to live in abeyance forever like this.
America’s costliest, most divided, noisiest, and most exciting elections are probably about to close. So people will get rid of joy or sadness and disagreements to go to work to earn money and build their dreams under the guidance of a government and a new president.
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Around 12 noon, suddenly AP News and CNN reported that Joe Biden had won in Pennsylvania, surpassing the 270 votes needed to become the 46th president of the United States. A short time later, the channels ABCNews, MSNBC, NBCNews, Reuters, Bloomberg … and finally FoxNews (pro-Republican capital of the Party) also recognized the results of the US elections. People from the capital stormed the streets, dancing and singing in front of their long-awaited victory. Friends, colleagues and family send text messages with the results in limitless happiness.
Television shows people in big cities, bastions of the Democrats like Atlanta, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Boston … with masks, with street signs. All roads leading to downtown Washington, DC are stopped by police. Open Google Maps, everywhere in red, even if it’s a weekend. Instead of the usual thirty minutes from home to market, today it took me more than three hours to go back and forth in traffic jams in all directions.
But for the people of Washington, DC, nothing can overshadow that endless joy. I affirm one thing, nowhere in the United States, not even in the whole world, that hates Republicans and President Donald Trump like Washington, DC and suburban cities (north of Virginia and part of Maryland).
Most people here, even the waiters at the restaurant, see Trump as a thorn in the eye. Yet for the past four years, they have to accept that the disputed president lives and works in the “territory”, right before their eyes, and can do nothing about it. The protests take place almost every weekend in front of the White House campus. Especially the dynamic and young generation of the capital, always considers that the policies of the Trump administration go against the democratic point of view, the core of the United States since its founding.
The voting signs (Vote) are really big on the road.
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I live in the US for over 20 years and have gone through 6 presidential elections and voted 4 times by hand. As soon as we arrived in the United States, we saw the United States and the rest of the world waiting in suspense for almost five weeks for the official results in Florida for George W. Bush to defeat Vice President Al Gore as head of the White House. Four times later, almost in the middle of the night on Election Day, Americans heard a moving speech by candidates John Kerry, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Hilary Clinton. They accept defeat and congratulate the winner with respectful words.
This time, although all the newspapers, heads of state of many important countries such as England, Germany, Canada, France, Japan … congratulated Mr. Joe Biden, but it seems that the election is not over. when President Donald Trump is still diligently posting on Facebook and Twitter denouncing voter fraud. He promised his legal team to sue until the end to turn the tables when he was the winner.
Traffic jam on Highway 395 passing through Washington, DC
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During the last few days, the United States has a black and white conflict, the “Black Lives Matter” movement has broken out across the country, red and blue (the symbols of Republicans and Democrats) have become the owners. main topic. Through social networks in the United States (and also in Vietnam), the “war” between the defenders of these two colors has reached a peak. Friends, parents, children, spouses, siblings … they argue, cancel friends, block each other just because they don’t share the same opinion. People are ready to kill, to yell in the face, even to demand to take up arms to shoot each other. Many stores in New York, DC, Chicago … were concerned about covering the store with plywood for fear of demonstrations and destruction. But luckily, so far, that hasn’t happened yet. Everything is still in peace and stability.
Blue dominates Washington, DC
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In my opinion, this election only has two types of voters. One is the people who love and love Trump, the rest hate Trump as their enemy. A lot of people I know don’t like Joe Biden, but they still vote for him, they just don’t like Trump very much. During his controversial tenure, Trump can be said to be like a durian, a Southeast Asian specialty. Those who liked him, would love like blood, flesh, life or death, excuse, would even fight to protect their idols. But those who hate it, they hate it to the bone marrow, that kind of face that doesn’t look, doesn’t want to hear the sound, it just wants to hide its face and disappear.
With just a short spontaneous line on Twitter, Trump can make the stock market fiery or blue like the sky in the desert. A single word from you could turn all media into breaking news. Only one of his policies makes world leaders do not know what is happening … No head of state has created such an effect. Trump is the only case so far. Perhaps thanks to so many years in show business, long enough for him and his media team to turn his years in power into a great game show, drawing voters, publishing everywhere without spending a penny.
As I write this, fireworks erupt after the victory speeches by Mrs. Kamala Harris and Mr. Joe Biden. On television, Americans everywhere were still on the streets celebrating their victory. Tonight, maybe a sleepless weekend night for bright blue lovers. Washington, DC is pleased that the coming will no longer see Mr. Trump on its land. America’s costliest, most divided, noisiest, and most exciting elections are probably about to close. So people will get rid of joy or sadness and disagreements to go to work to earn money and build their dreams under the guidance of a new government and president.
President Donald Trump’s legacy, his successes and failures, and his controversial decisions during the past four years in office will be judged by historians and experts. That could last from decades to decades.
I just know that America has never stopped being great thanks to the enthusiasm of generations of people regardless of color, religion, or extreme political views.
