The next morning, the city was silent. DC is openly hostile to Trump: more than 90 per cent of voters backed Harris. Howard was empty, save for a handful of tired campaign workers. I watched as they dragged tables and chairs outside and pulled metal barriers out of a rental van. There were two students walking by the barricades. ‘All right, so what country are we moving to?’ one asked. ‘What the fuck, Georgia?’
The Harris campaign announced that the vice president would address the nation at 4 p.m. on Wednesday. By the early afternoon, people had begun to file back into the yard, many of them wearing Harris-Walz attire and carrying the American flags they had been given the previous night. Some were in genuine distress, saddened but not shocked by the results. Others appeared unmoved: a man posed for a photograph and told his friend he could share it ‘as long as I look a little bit sad about democracy.’ The crowd was much smaller than the previous evening, the far bleachers nearly empty.
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