Philadelphia (AP) – They are clinging to their cocktails and declare themselves ill with dangerous. He constantly checked the news and went out for fresh air. He had to pick up a wave that never came and hoped that his favorite candidate would still win.
With the fate of the White House on Wednesday, an irritable and bitterly divided America prepared for the rocky days to come and the possibility that the person they despised would lead the nation.
“I can’t turn on the news. I don’t feel good at all, ”said 61-year-old Tammy Lewandowski, a supporter of President Donald Trump in Milwaukee, where former Vice President Joe Biden emerged as the state’s winner. It is a consequence that Lewandowski fears will amount to law and order losses and riots. “I feel like we lost our country. I don’t know if anything will ever be the same again. “
On the other side of the divide but upset, the women who gathered for Fans for Dums in the affluent Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills began to mourn and take their heads into their hands after their return on Wednesday morning, some switching from red wine Considered. To tequila. As they had hoped, they knew they did not want what they wanted: a nationwide contempt of Trump.
“I honestly feel that I’m going to have a heart attack before it’s over,” Denise Asbell said. “I think it’s slipping. I’m scared to say that, but we have the ability to see the victory that we wished it was slipping.”
Asbel’s daughter, 13-year-old Regan Stallworth, shared the anger hanging for the outcome in a country where many do not understand the opposing party’s beliefs.
Stallworth said, “It’s like putting your life in the hands of a nation you don’t trust.”
Votes were still being counted across the country and it is likely that both Biden and Trump will be short of the 270 electoral votes needed to win for the next few days. There was nothing in common in that process beyond the anticipated surge of mail-in votes, but the lack of certainty seemed to be on a public campaign with an endless campaign, and all the attacks, vitriol and expensive TV commercials.
There was an answer, but recalling the legal challenges of razor-thin margins in the swing states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada was sure to be delayed. The future of the country will be determined by the outcome.
Although the AP was able to call Wisconsin for Biden on Wednesday afternoon, other states remained in flux. The fate of the lower castes also remained unknown, including the balance of the Senate, where forecasts by Democrats to obtain a majority were now all but inaccessible.
The Trump campaign said it filed lawsuits in Pennsylvania and Michigan on Wednesday demanding a fight in Wisconsin, and was doing groundwork for results in the battlegrounds.
Jason Clem, a 49-year-old actor in Philadelphia, sipped vodka from the 7-Eleven Cup on Wednesday morning at the Ritenhouse Square, trying to ease his nerves after sticking to television coverage until 4 a.m., then taking a nap. Later increased. As the streaming in Return continued, Clem felt more confident than he had done a few hours earlier that his candidate, Biden, could prevail. But he knew that the results would be expected to fall short.
“I would have liked a miracle last night, but it didn’t happen,” said Klemm, in whose state Trump overtook several votes. “But every time I walk in and come back later, it’s a little better for Biden.”
The prospect of seeing Trump off Pennsylvania Avenue was difficult to convince his supporters. Jim Green, a 73-year-old accountant from Greenfield, Wisconsin, said he believed the president could also win because he feared the option. When a neighbor began stopping on Wednesday, the weight of uncertainty was evident.
“I’m sick to my stomach”, the driver of the SUV told Green, who replied: “Just don’t buy a gun and shoot people.”
In Nevada, where Biden leads, one of his supporters, Mike McClain, said that although it took a long time, he was confident in the results.
McClain, a retired schoolteacher, industrial engineer and Vietnam-era US Army veteran, said, “I think it will be a clear victory once the dust settles, no matter what Trump’s lawyers do with it.” Suburban Las Vegas.
Some supporters of Trump also resigned from that fate, but after preliminary estimates in some states were left questioning the outcome because they were in favor of the president.
“I’m angry. The left party is trying to take the election in the other direction and it should be decided tomorrow night.” Said Stacey Rowheads, a 45-year-old security official in Washington, Pennsylvania. “Trump should be the winner Was. We were the leaders in all democratic states when we went to bed and now it has changed. “
In North Carolina, where Democrats clung to hope despite Trump’s leadership, Stephen King, a 66-year-old who gave his vote to Biden, said he knew the days could be longer before anything happened.
The King of Durham, North Carolina said, “We felt Biden was down, then Biden was up, then Biden was down, Biden was up, so it’s coming in waves.” “For all votes to be counted, it’s going to take a few days.”
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Contributing to this report were Corey Williams in Detroit; Claire Gallofaro in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; John Fleischer in Traverse City, Michigan; Stephen Groves in Milwaukee, Jeff Amy in Tucker, Georgia; Ken Ritter in Las Vegas; Juliet Linderman in Washington, Pennsylvania; Claudia Laur in Philadelphia; And Brian Anderson in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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