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The Bloodbath of
November 5, 2024
When you pit a coke toting, stuttering candidate with a nervous laughter to debate a
seasoned viper - you have in fact created a recipe for sure defeat, writes Minoo Shah
Even as red ravaged from East to West and
North to South leaving bits and pieces of
blue in its aftermath, the Harris campaign
hung on to eternal hope and the miracle
of winning swing states. When the polls
started closing with numbers favouring
the Republican Party, MSNBC which had
cried triumph earlier slowly diffused their
rhetoric. Simultaneously FOX jubilantly
raised their ante when the mark favouring
Trump inched towards 246 and climbing
while Harris stood steadfastly at 221. Soon
the Swing States started changing from
blue to a light pink and then a formidable
red. The Electoral College vote edged to the
finishing line with only four more votes
to go. To put the mood in context, it was
like MVP Altuve (Astros Baseball player
- God’s gift to Houston) bunting in the 9th
inning for the final goal to win the World
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Series. Or, to put it in a cross reference
perspective Rohit Sharma’s Robotic dance
when winning the World Cup earlier this
year.
Soon, around midnight Trump hit close to
the 270 mark, and while most of the media
and weary pollsters all but announced a
win for the Republicans, diehard stalwarts
like Kamala Harris, Taylor Swift and
Beyoncé refused to cave in. At 266 and
counting with the possibility of winning
four swing states, Trump decided he had
won, gave a victory speech and partied
through the night with his cronies at Mar
A Lago. The night dragged on for the
Democrats while Kamala tried desperately
to get some guidance from her masters,
who had gone incommunicado turning
their cell phones off, leaving poor KH to
hang dry. Meanwhile most of USA waited
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