Cardi-B and Jennifer Lopez have recently become some of the biggest political analysts in the United States of America. This was not because of a sudden uptake in knowledge but rather because of a set of people who prepared them to campaign for a particular person. Welcome to the season of elections in the United States of America, where popular celebrities become political experts, every advertisement becomes some form of campaign material, and a period where all your social media handles are filled with Elon Musk calling the Democrats a bunch of nobodies and projecting the Republicans as a group of messiahs.
This time around, like any other US election, there are two candidates (Donald Trump and Donald Trump as far as Donald Trump is concerned) – Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. As usual, the Americans have portrayed this particular election as an election between a man and a woman where the United States seeks to elect its first-ever female President rather than an election based on policies. However, unlike the complicated Americans, we are rational people and will analyze this particular election from a policy point of view with an unbiased perspective. The following are the 5 main parts covered in this particular article:
- How do the US elections work?
- A brief overview of American Politics and its working
- Meet the Candidates for the US elections and listen to what they have promised
- The Presidential Debate
- The aftermath of the US elections
How Do The US Elections Work?
To say that the US elections are not one but rather 50 smaller elections held concurrently would not be an over-exaggeration. The truth is that these United States have great diversity in the way they hold elections, with laws, standards, and policies varying widely across the land. It’s not just the Presidential election that is happening this November, but also Senate elections, House elections, local elections, and many referendums. But how do all of these elections work?
Let’s start with the Presidency itself. The President is elected through an institution called the Electoral College. Each state is allocated a certain number of electoral votes that is dependent on how many members it elects to the US Congress. Since the number of Senators is a set constant at 2, the total number of Electoral votes is two more than the number of House seats each state has. In addition to this, the District of Columbia gets three electoral votes in accordance with the 23rd Amendment. Almost every state allocates all its electoral votes to whoever wins the most votes in said state. However, the states of Maine and Nebraska allocate their electoral votes based on which candidate wins each constituency. Thus, finally, we end up with 538 electoral votes; a candidate would need 270 electoral votes to gain a majority and win the Presidential election.
As for the Senate, similar to the Rajya Sabha, roughly 1/3rd of Senators are up for re-election in any given cycle. This year 34 Senate seats will be up for election, of which 33 seats are those to be up for this term, and one seat in Nebraska is up for a special election as the previous holder of the seat, Ben Sasse, retired to assume a university presidency. The fact that a lowly university presidency got this man to resign from The United States Senate should tell us all about how desperate some of these people are to get out and is a testament to the quality of this institution. These are state-wide elections where the candidate who gets the most votes statewide wins the election. The House works similarly to the Lok Sabha, where 435 districts go to the polls to each elect a representative to the House. Right now, the Democratic party controls the Senate with 51/100 seats while the Republicans control the House with 222/435 seats.
A lot of states also hold elections for many important state-level positions like the Governor, Lieutenant Governor (something like a vice governor), Attorney General (chief legal advisor of the state government), and more. Elections to state legislatures are also held during this time, as they too tend to have two-year cycles.
The American electorate also gets to interact with law-making through various ballot initiatives and referendums (i.e.) direct votes on certain laws/amendments. This cycle, 10 states have referendums to legalize/codify abortion rights; Nebraska has two referendums that restrict and liberalize abortion access in the state, respectively. Seven states are holding referendums on whether to adopt ranked-choice voting as a method of voting. Countless states are also holding referendums to increase the minimum wage, legalize marijuana access, and repeal outdated provisions banning same-sex marriage.
American Politics: A Brief Review
Now, let us have a quick run-through of some of the events that led us to this election. As we might remember, Donald Trump first won back in 2016 on the back of the “white working class” discontented with decades of neoconservative/neoliberal (supports free trade and lax policies for corporations) policy resulting in industrial decline in the critical “Rust Belt” states (shown below) of Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
Snapshot of the Rust Belt of the United States
After a questionable term in office, Trump was ousted from office in 2020 and replaced by Democrat Joe Biden. Though he passed some large policy packages like the Inflation Reduction Act and Respect for Marriage Act, the poor economy, high energy prices, border crisis, and various foreign policy crises resulted in Biden being a pretty unpopular President. He was also a well-known gaffe machine in visible mental decline. In the midst of all this, the Supreme Court removed previously-afforded abortion protections in Dobbs vs. Jackson, the backlash caused by which meant that the anti-abortion Republicans have been losing support among women. This manifested itself in the 2022 midterms, also dubbed “Roe-vember” in honor of the original Roe vs. Wade ruling that liberalized abortion access in the US, where Republicans barely gained the House, lost seats in the Senate, and lost many state governments despite being the opposition under a very unpopular President.
Fast forward to 2024, and Biden’s clear mental decline publically manifested itself in a horrible debate performance. He did visibly worse than Trump, and this began the inter-party movement to ditch Biden before the electorate did. On July 21, 2024, Biden officially dropped out and endorsed Kamala Harris to be the Democratic Party’s nominee for the Presidency in what was essentially a coronation for her to lead the party. But just before this, we had the first of two assassination attempts against Donald Trump on July 14, 2024. Harris and Trump had their debate on September 10, 2024, which brings us to the present day.
A Detailed Dive Into Swing States
American elections are really decided in a few closely contested states known as “swing states”. For a major candidate to win, they’d need to carry a decent number of these states. Often, looking at these states helps us understand the election at large, since these states are mostly made up of key demographics both candidates covet throughout the election season. So, let’s have a look at each one and see what makes these states tick.
Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin
Let’s start with the Rust Belt trio. These states used to be reliable Democratic votes, continuously voting blue between 1992 and 2012. But what made these states that gave Obama substantial wins in 2008 and 2012 just veer right and vote for Trump?
In short, Trump brought out new voters in these states from small towns and rural areas. These voters were predominantly white, middle-class, and not college-educated, a class of voters that found Trump’s populist demagoguery resonating (The reader is left to make the connection between education and voting preferences as an exercise). He made staggering inroads into these “Rust Belt” communities which felt left behind by the trade deals and outsourcing previous governments had engaged in; they attributed the decline of their communities to these neoliberal policies taking away the industries that were the beating heart of these communities.
Biden’s narrow victory in these states (1.2% in Pennsylvania, 2.8% in Michigan, and 0.6% in Wisconsin) can mostly be attributed to his decent performance with his base and college-educated white voters, the latter of which tend to be more likely to vote and open to swinging towards a “more acceptable candidate”. His base in suburban communities also turned out in high enough numbers that they were able to compensate for enthusiastic MAGA voters in the state. The fact that losses made among non-college-educated whites were neither adequately countered nor compensated for continues to be a sore spot for the Democrats in this cycle. Another ominous sign to note here is that urban minorities, a stronghold of the Democratic coalition for decades, seem to be slowly shifting right due to various reasons. However, this particular shift isn’t particularly major in these states as they have nominally small minority populations.
In this cycle, these races have continued being dead-heat races, with neither candidate being able to garner a lead greater than 1 percentage point. However, Trump has a slight edge in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania while Harris has a slight edge in Michigan.
Nevada and Arizona
Arizona and Nevada are dominated by two forces; suburban white voters and Latino voters. Of these, Latino voters seem to be trending towards the Republicans in light of their relative conservatism, despite long being a mainstay of the Democratic coalition. However, these “Sun Belt” states have a large suburban population which, though somewhat elastic, seem to be trending towards the Democrats.
In 2016, Nevada voted for Clinton while Arizona voted for Trump. However, Biden clinched both states by narrow margins in 2020, largely thanks to the large gains he was able to make with suburban white voters who were repelled by Trump’s antics in office and yearned for Biden’s promise of sensible, moderate governance. However, the full effect of these swings wasn’t perceivable because of the nationwide rightward trend seen among Latino voters; this is attributed to Trump bringing out conservative Latinos to vote in the 2020 election for the first time along with Trump’s rhetoric of a “socialist” Democratic party raising concern among certain moderates.
However, right now, both Nevada and Arizona seem to be leaning towards Trump; the economic malaise overseen by the Biden administration is said to be a key reason why suburban voters might be open to giving Trump, who oversaw a growing economy, another try. However, voters curiously seem to be in a state of amnesia over the circus that was Trump’s first term and that it was Obama who propped up the booming economy Trump inherited.
Georgia and North Carolina
These two states, similar to the “Sun Belt” duo, also have two major forces driving politics in the state: African-American voters and suburban white voters.
As covered earlier, white suburban voters seem to be trending toward the Democratic Party due to Trump’s instability and the Democrats’ newfound moderacy both in rhetoric and policy. However, the same issues the Democrats have in Arizona and Georgia plague them in these states as well; economic issues. Thus, the gains Democrats made with these voters seem to be slowly diminishing due to their record in governance.
As for the second variable, the problem here isn’t convincing them to vote for Democrats; they already lend over 90% of their votes to the party. Rather, the major issue is to convince them to turn out in the first place; only 63% of African-American voters turnout on election when compared to 70-80% of White people. Thanks to political activist and two-time gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams, Democrats were successfully able to increase Black turnout considerably to barely clinch a victory in Georgia.
North Carolina, meanwhile, has long been a white whale for the Democratic Party. Though Obama was able to clinch a narrow victory in the state in 2008, the Democrats have consistently fallen short of the mark in 2012, 2016, and 2020. This is perhaps due to the strong polarization between Black voters and rural white voters, an extremely reliable Republican voting block in this state motivated mostly by Christian conservatism, both interacting to keep North Carolina always marginally in the Republican column except once in a blue moon.
In 2020, North Carolina voted for Donald Trump while Georgia voted for Biden. As of now, we have both of these states leaning towards Trump by small margins for similar reasons as in Arizona and Nevada.
Thus in aggregate, the polls do have Trump leading in the polls. However, polls for the past few cycles have famously been broken and tend to be inaccurate; we’ll just have to wait for the results to trickle in to see which side the polls have favored.
FiveThirtyEight’s 2024 Presidential Polling Aggregate (Swing States Highlighted)
Split of the 2020 Election Result (Swing States Highlighted)
Crucial Minor Elections
Though it’s the Presidential election that gets all the buzz, that’s not the only thing happening as previously discussed. We have a plethora of statewide and local elections happening in this cycle that can also have national consequences.
As far as the Senate goes, the prevailing consensus is that Republicans will be able to pick up two seats in Montana and West Virginia, which is enough to give them a majority in the upper chamber. Though both of these states voted for Republicans in droves, they had popular Democratic moderates occupying the seats. However, the Senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin, chose to retire while the Senator from Montana, Jon Tester, seems to be trailing in the polls despite his popularity and his opponent’s dubious past, a testament to how partisanship towards one party has ingrained itself everywhere in place of an open mind to choosing the best candidate.
FiveThirtyEight’s 2024 Senate Polling Aggregate (Swing States Highlighted)
Meanwhile, the House, which is already almost evenly divided, is a complete tossup to either party. There are a lot of competitive elections across the country, with up to 43 races being seen as potentially competitive. Some of the more amusing races include:
- New York’s 4th District: This district voted for Biden by nearly 14 percentage points. However, a massive “red wave” saw this district flipping to the Republicans. Currently, it’s being represented by “MAGA Republican” Anthony D’Esposito, who continues to purvey pretty conservative beliefs despite being elected from a NYC suburb that voted for Biden by a good margin, almost like he forgot what district he is representing.
- Washington’s 3rd District: Though this district leans towards the Republican Party and even voted for Trump by around 4%, it’s currently represented by moderate Democrat Marie Perez. This is because Donald Trump had far-right candidate Joe Kent defeat the incumbent moderate Jaime Beutler since she voted to impeach him in January 2021 after the January 6th insurrection at the US Capitol. This obviously didn’t fly in a relatively close district, thus prompting voters to choose the more moderate Perez. Thus, they showed the world that even Americans have a tolerance limit to right-wing demagoguery and that they won’t actually elect neo-Nazis.
Among Governor’s races, nothing catches the eye as much as North Carolina. Though, as previously discussed, North Carolina votes for the Republicans in Presidential elections, they voted for Democrat Roy Cooper both in 2016 and 2020 due to the Republican incumbent’s unpopularity in the first case and due to his own popularity in the second. Despite this, as Cooper is term-limited and can’t run again, this race seemed like a relatively easy pick for the Republicans after spending 8 years outside of office.
In this vein, the Democrats nominated Attorney General Josh Stein, while the Republicans nominated Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson. This initially seemed like a safe choice, as Robinson was an incumbent lieutenant governor and also Black in a state where the Republicans were trying to make inroads with this demographic. Alas, the Republicans’s seemingly safe choice blew up on their faces as opposition research started to dig up a series of controversial statements Robinson made on social media. In one particular case, Robinson made comments like “I’m a Black Nazi”, calling himself a “perv”, and called for a reintroduction of slavery (despite being Black himself) on a pornography website under the username minisoldr. Needless to say, even American voters have standards, and this race is widely expected to be a landslide victory for Democrats.
To conclude, there are exciting elections all across the US if one looks at it closely, and just looking at topline Presidential results will result in us missing out on more interesting trends and developments down the ballot.
Meet The Candidates
Kamala Harris
America’s own impact sub is what comes to one’s mind when the name Kamala Harris is mentioned. This might seem trivial, but Kamala Harris is indeed an impact sub in IPL-esque terms for the Democrats as she replaced the previous candidate and the current sitting President, Joe Biden. Apart from this unique angle where she replaced the presumptive nominee of the party, the other interesting angle to this candidate is her Indian roots and this is one aspect that makes Indians’ chests swell up with pride for no apparent reason. If you happen to be a nonbeliever of this pride, just look at articles in the country when Kamala Harris was elected to be the Democrat candidate for the presidential elections or look at the video of her cooking a masala dosa with an Indian friend. The comments of all such articles and videos are flooded with comments like – “Is there any Indian out there, who doesn’t reuse old plastic or glass jars to keep masala in? I think that is an ingrained part of our Indian DNA, gene Desi.” and “I loved the way she called Mindy’s father Uncle, as we Indians do not approach elders by their name, not trying to offend anybody, but that’s how we connect with each other every day”. While these are great instances of respect and a way by which Indians see a global world with Indian influence, the Indian population must understand that it is high time that foreign elections and candidates are analyzed from a policy point of view rather than a root-based point of view which muddles one’s opinion.
Now, moving on from the Indian point of view and getting back to Kamala Harris, it is important to note that Kamala Harris served as the previous vice president of the country and was the running mate of Joe Biden during the 2019 election while also serving as the US senator from California previously. Despite being a vice president and an avid supporter of Joe Biden’s presidency, Kamala Harris has distanced herself from Joe Biden’s style of governance and has claimed to follow a completely different system of governance, which will be shaped by her middle-class upbringing, which in turn shaped her views and motivations (Happens to be a good idea but this statement conveniently clashes with a huge drop in Biden’s approval ratings).
Donald Trump
From calling football soccer and calling rugby American football, Americans have always liked being different for no reason whatsoever, and Donald Trump is someone who embodies this spirit. America’s most American man is one catchphrase that comes to one’s mind when one hears Donald Trump’s name, and this is not necessarily a positive comment when it comes to Donald Trump as a person as many would make it out to be.
Donald John Trump, or just Donald Trump as many people know him, was born to New York real estate tycoon Fred Trump, who initially believed that Donald was fit for the lowest tier jobs of his company but was won over by Donald after his education in the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School after which it was decided that it would be Donald who would succeed Fred. After succeeding his father in 1971, he renamed the company to ‘Trump Organization’ and interestingly hosted a reality television show called ‘The Apprentice’ for 14 seasons with his family. Now, fast forward 45 years to 2017, Trump has gone through 3 wives and 2 divorces, has seen some of his real estate ventures declare bankruptcy, has gone through the arduous task of dealing with lawsuits, and has become less capable in his own words due to his entry into politics (This is not even a joke as Trump himself in a 1980 interview cited politics as a mean world and that more capable people enter business). Apart from these interesting aspects, Trump, most importantly, became the 45th President of the United States of America in 2017, and that is where the true Trumpian Drama, as some call it, unfolded.
After becoming the President in 2017, Trump undertook a very interesting angle to policy-making as it went against contemporary thought just like American ideology. He felt that America had lost its footing, and he believed he was on a mission to ‘Make America Great Again,’ he went about doing this by openly feuding with random Twitter users by saying that injecting disinfectant is the solution to the devastating Coronavirus pandemic and through a riot movement on the Capitol. All jokes aside, Trump, in all honesty, was a very hardline president who had one of the most hardline America first foreign policies, and this gravely affected relations with the Chinese while he surprisingly built a good relationship with Vladimir Putin. However, a disastrous handling of the COVID-19 pandemic saw the American public lose confidence in Trump, and hence he lost his re-election campaign. After this loss, many proclaimed that Trump would never return, but here he is, and he has touted himself to be a comeback man, and the shot to his head, as he claims (shot to his ear, in our opinion), is further testament.
What Have The Candidates Promised?
What is a promise? Is it just a word or does it hold its weight when it comes to important events like an election where a candidate comes up and lists out a bunch of lines that sound good to the public ear and do these promises ever take fruit is a question that members of the electoral college should be asking themselves. This word promise is what should shape an election as the word holds so much weight on the accountability front, but alas, only if the world was such a noble place where things like muscle power and scandals didn’t play a role (very emotional right, but this can’t be truer in regards to any election including this very election). However, instead of focusing on the evils of the world, we have decided to take an optimistic view of the world’s people and just list out the promises made by both sides during this particular election without contemplating human nature.
Kamala Harris
When one looks at Kamala Harris’ list of promises, one might be reminded of an exam where a student is unprepared, and he/she fills out the main booklet and asks for a supplementary sheet just in the hope that a teacher gives marks for trying. While this might be a very harsh outlook, this is the basic outlier when one looks at Kamala Harris’ manifesto as it seems too utopian to be true and is just something that sounds good to the ears. Some of the key issues covered in Harris’ promises are economic policy, taxation, health care, abortion, and so on. Economic policy and taxation, which happen to be two of the major talking points in this particular election, happen to be the most utopian part of Harris’ promise list, and this claim of utopia can be justified using basic common sense.
On the economic front, Harris has taken an approach of pleasing the middle class and some of her major policy changes will include a federal ban on price-gouging (only she knows how, and this will surely please one of her largest donors, George Soros who happened to be the culprit behind one of the biggest gouging scandals in what came to be called Black Wednesday), a tax deduction for new small businesses to $50000 which is ten times the previous amount of $5000 and a bunch of other things like creating an ‘America Forward’ (sounds like something her counterpart Donald Trump would say) tax credit where there will be targeted investment in certain industries like Iron, Biotechnology, Automobiles, Semiconductors, Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, and Farming which will be paid for using International Tax reform. This makes no sense whatsoever as every step of this process will require Congressional approval and international cooperation, and this is very unfeasible, to say the least. Apart from this, Harris has written an 82-page policy paper on the economic front, and this includes these policy changes and many more, which sound too good to ever be true, but they do sound nice, and that is something that proves that she is a true politician and hats off for the same.
Apart from this, Harris has made a few promises which are just like checks on a checklist, and this comes on the taxation front and other miscellaneous fronts like healthcare, climate, immigration, and foreign policy where the promises align with previous Biden policy actions except on the foreign policy front where she claims to have a thought process of her own without entailing exactly what the thought process is.
Donald Trump
If Kamala Harris’ list of promises was utopian, Trump’s list is quite literally otherworldly, and this may be the reason why Elon Musk and Donald Trump have grown close recently (quite the conspiracy right). While this might seem like an exaggeration, we are being as serious as possible here as it is quite literally the blatant truth when one takes a look at Trump’s list of promises. It includes flying cars for families and individuals in a 5-year period which is in all honestly not implementable or conceivable in this short period. Apart from this, Trump enters this election with an unupgraded apparel list with the same red ‘Make America Great Again’ hat making its second appearance in his election campaign. All jokes apart, this manifesto should be analyzed on the major fronts which include economics, taxation, and foreign policy.
On the economic front, like Harris, Trump has shown his roots in his upbringing and has brought about promises that will mainly benefit the wealthiest part of society (though Trump won’t explicitly state the same). This is seen in his promises, where he promised corporate tax cuts from 21% to 15% and said that he would “immediately tackle” inflation without saying how he would go about doing the same (very reassuring for the general public). While all these seem fancy and look like they will contribute to an economic boom as Trump has promised, the problem is that there is already a massive phenomenon of trickle-down economics (For the readers’ information, trickle-down economics in a simple sense, is a capitalist idea which says that economic ideologies which favor the upper echelons of society benefit the economy as a whole. However, this narrative is not necessarily true as it also leads to unfavorable macroeconomic conditions like inflation in the long run) looming in the US economic background, and Trump’s economic policies, which favor the upper echelons of the economic class, will just further the trickle-down and in turn reduce growth which is the last thing a recovering American economy needs at this point. However, Trump is beyond reasoning, and all he will say to any presumed logic and reasoning like the same is that he is making America Great Again. Apart from the economic front, Trump also wants to concentrate on the immigration problem that the US is facing, and his solution to this is simple: deport as many illegal immigrants as possible and secure the borders through the use of Federal authorities. While this sounds easy, Trump should have realized from his previous project of the Mexican Wall that this is a tall task.
Apart from this and his flying cars promise, Trump has more or less just gone for the anti-Democrat narrative when it comes to fronts like healthcare, education, and foreign policy, where he has quite smartly played the usual political narrative of a blame game to portray himself as a messiah (Trump continues to blame the Democrats for the economic mess and other American problems when he is one of the chief contributors to the same and the Democrats just worsened the situation.).
The Presidential Debate
Snapshot of the 2024 Presidential Election
“In Springfield, they’re eating the dogs. The people that came in. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating — they’re eating the pets of the people that live there.” “He will talk about windmills causing cancer.” The readers might associate these statements with a seventh-grade classroom election debate, but rather, these statements are associated with a serious debate for possibly the world’s most powerful position- the President of the United States of America. The Presidential Debate this time around, like usual, was a whole lot of something and possibly a nostalgic childhood memory for two grown adults as the Presidential debate saw more personal attacks rather than pure constructive debate. Despite this element of non-constructiveness, the debate has always played a key role in swaying neutral and undecided voters towards a particular side, and hence, it plays a detrimental role in the proceedings of the elections of the United States of America.
Like any debate, there are two sides, and in the blue corner for this particular debate was Kamala Harris, and in the red corner was Donald. J. Trump and this particular heavyweight fight was refereed by two neutral moderators named David Muir and Linsey Davis. The general public is the judge for this particular debate, and the metaphors aside, the following is what happened in this prestigious debate.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump presented starkly different views on their visions for America and this at least justified the title-Presidential debate. Harris presented herself as a very unifying figure who focussed primarily on her middle-class upbringing, and she claimed that this upbringing and her experience in policy-making as a Vice President would help her solve kitchen table issues like healthcare, jobs, and affordable housing from a middle-class point of view. She also portrayed Trump to be a divisive figure who was not fit for office, and what followed was a string of personal attacks from both sides. Once this was done, Trump portrayed himself as a messiah and outside figure who had come to “Make America Great Again” by focusing heavily on aspects such as immigration, law and order, and economic nationalism. Trump also had his share of personal attacks lined up and called Harris a Marxist, which he justified by saying that her father was a professor of economics and, hence, she was a Marxist. The candidates also reiterated their promises and attacked each other on the personal front as usual. The candidates were then asked a few questions by the moderators who were quite honestly powerless and didn’t even correct incorrect claims made by the candidates. A few examples of mistakes included Trump’s wrong citation of American crime rates and Harris’ claim of 800,000 jobs, which, quite honestly, is 15 times the number of jobs the promised policy could make.
Hence, the Presidential Debate, which was built up as a boxing fight of epic proportions,, did not live up to its expectations as usual because of the participants’ mischaracterization of the debate’s aims. The Boxing match became a boring fight of heckling rather than a fight with multiple punches and jabs because the candidates couldn’t understand that policy was their main weapon and not the personal attacks they continuously wielded. Though this is our verdict of the debate, the actual judge, who happens to be the American general public, believed that Kamala Harris took this heavyweight duel by a mile.
Possible Aftermaths of the American Election
According to the promises made by both sides, if Kamala Harris wins, the middle class will come out as the major winner, and if Donald Trump triumphs, the upper echelons of the American economy will come out on top. However, it is not that simple to analyze the aftermath of this particular election as the promises made by both candidates are not only too utopian, but like any set of politicians, there is no guarantee that the set of promises made ever bear fruit. However, if we take the trodden route of past policy, we see that there are two clear outcomes, like any coin.
In a simple sense, if Donald Trump wins this particular election, the American public gets to see a repeat of his previous tenure, where he comes up with a set of policies that further trickle down the economy, further polarize America from the rest of the globe and policies which lead further controversy on a global scale. Meanwhile, if Kamala Harris wins this particular election, it will just be more of the same where Bidenomics takes the forefront of policy, and the American economy continues to decline, but this hit will be taken with a foreign policy approach that is less polarizing and less controversial.
While all this seems like doom and gloom and this portrays the current situation as a pick of the best possible candidate amongst the worst possible candidates, it has always been seen that America finds a way and that these two candidates will still do what is required to ensure that the United States of America is a world leader in literally everything. In conclusion, we would like to issue a heartfelt apology to all the readers for wasting countless precious minutes of their lives, as this is almost a foregone concluding opinion amongst most members who even know what the United States of America as an entity is.
The Journal Club 
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