The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/2020-election/)
Rep. Katherine Clark J.D. ’89 (D-Mass.), the current vice chair of the Democratic caucus, has climbed further up the party’s leadership, winning an election Wednesday morning to serve as Assistant House Speaker.
I’m 20 years-old, and the only kind of politics I can remember is the nasty kind.
Raise your hand if you’ve lost a friend or two (or 30!) during this election season. I definitely have. As we finally reach the end of a 2+ year run for the presidency, I can finally reflect on what this election cycle has meant to me. I can list thirty million things, but one of the most significant is that I have lost a few friends.
Up until the 2020 election run, I really believed that I could be friends with anyone regardless of their political ideology. I had done it my entire life.
She stood on a podium before millions of people, accepting an honor that I couldn’t fathom, standing on top of the shattered glass of ceilings that she elegantly broke through, and I couldn’t stop myself from crying when she acknowledged that she was standing on the shoulders of “all the women who have worked to secure and protect the right to vote.”
Paris Ghazi is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at [email protected]. La Vie en Prose runs alternate Mondays this semester.
In the end, it’s important to remember that this was a brutal and divisive election and tens of millions of Americans are disappointed by the results.
A “Protect the Ballot Count” rally on the Commons became a celebration of the Democratic Party’s victory on Saturday afternoon.
Cheers, honks and relief filled the unusually-warm Ithaca fall air after Biden officially clinched the presidency at 11:25 a.m., surpassing 270 electoral votes after winning Pennsylvania.
“Donald Trump’s presidency has unleashed a form of nuclear energy of fundraising down the ballot,” Israel said. “The best fundraising tool for Democrats down the ballot in the 2020 election cycle has been anti-Trump sentiment.”
While the president took to Twitter to question mail-in votes as “surprise ballot dumps,” Cornell professors and Ithaca elected officials condemned the president’s messaging as irrevocably damaging. The Associated Press called Wisconsin, Michigan and Arizona for Biden, and outstanding ballots suggest a nail-biter in Georgia.