“Here we voted calmly, in the last hour just over a hundred people passed by, which is a lot, considering that many people in this area of the city have already voted by post or through early voting,” Barnard Greenleaf told Lusa, supporter of Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden from the Shaw zone.
In front of the polling station operating at Kennedy Recreation Center, older residents recall that on the day that Reverend Martim Luther King Jr was murdered (April 4, 1968) in Menphis, African-American residents of Shaw, Washington DC , revolted with several fires and violent clashes with the police.
“The Shaw area has been very rich historically. The elders have lived here for a long time but in recent times many new people have come here, especially students,” adds Greenleaf, recalling that Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris studied at the University of Howard, whose pole is less than a kilometer from the polling center.
07 NW Street and Georgia Avenue are inhabited by a “strong black community” with “political conscience and very mobilized”, adds the Democratic Party supporter, referring to the students living in Shaw and in particular Kamala Harris “who graduated from Howard “and was in Detroit, Michigan today, in a final campaign act that was not previously announced.
So far, despite the health crisis, 102 million Americans have voted at national level, but the numbers will only be known later, with the available data showing a high participation compared to previous presidential candidates.
At 4:45 pm local time (9:45 pm in Lisbon) in the center of the United States capital, the lines are not long and there are even polling stations where you don’t have to wait to exercise your right to vote.
Without an official explanation from the police authorities, security measures in the capital have been visibly reinforced, with circulation in the White House gardens where Donald Trump is expected to remain until the polls close.
The Republican Party campaign has so far not released any other point in the city where the President of the United States may be present after the poll closes at 8 pm local time (1 am on Wednesday in Lisbon).
Donald Trump said today in an interview with Fox television station that he will not make any declaration of early victory but has shown confidence in the results despite the polls that have indicated a clear advantage of the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, in the past few months. President of the Barack Obama administration.
Shaw’s Democrats will stand in front of the Kennedy Recreation Center until the polls close and hope that “the last four years” will finally “end”.
“I hope everything goes well. But as for ‘Mr’ Trump, God bless him, ‘ironic voter Barnard Greenleaf quips, campaigning until the last minute in the United States capital.
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