Black Women Respond With Shock, Resignation And Anger To Donald Trump’s Presidential Win

Donald Trump, who was bogged down in the kind of baggage that would sink any other candidate, nonetheless sailed to victory to become the 47th president of the United States. As of this writing, he had won 277 electoral votes and four out of seven battleground states (North Carolina, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin).Trump, who before his election as president in 2016 had never served in government, oversaw an administration filled with chaos, was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, refused to concede the 2020 election, which he lost, was impeached a second time for inciting the insurrection on Jan. 6, was charged with 86 felony counts across four criminal cases and convicted of 34 of them.During his campaign, he ran to improve the economy, with few substantial policies beyond tariffs and tax cuts. He threatened prosecution for his political opponents, demonized immigrants and promised mass deportation of the undocumented, and used increasingly misogynistic and racist rhetoric on the campaign trail—even going as far as questioning Kamala Harris’s race and calling her lazy.Vice President Kamala Harris, who has served in each branch of government, launched a full-fledged campaign in just over 100 days and forged a broad-based coalition...