During the NBA play-offs, Ron Lewis wakes from time to time in the middle of the night to follow the matches in front of his small screen… In the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, the American back of SLUC Nancy will undoubtedly put it on but to see in real time the result of the American elections. “There is training on Wednesday morning but I will see to sleep a little earlier,” he said on Monday after the session. “We’ll see, but that interests me. “
Because if he will not be able to vote insofar as he received his ballot paper at his American home (“This is the first time that it happens to me not to vote”, he blurted out), the he former player of Fos-sur-Mer and Pau-Lacq-Orthez admits to monitoring this election very closely. “Every morning, I watch the news to see what happened”, slips the player at the end of the training of SLUC Nancy.
And hearing the American look at the state of his country, we quickly understand for whom he would have voted… “It is true that the country is much more divided than four years ago. (when Donald Trump came to power) », He blurted out.
“Donald Trump is not pushing for equality, not pushing for things to move forward for minorities. Rather, it puts people aside instead of bringing everyone together. It’s all bad. It is true that on certain points, voting Donald Trump can help, but in the long term, it does not help the country, nor does it help my family and myself. “
“If Donald Trump is re-elected? I could be in France four more years »
Even if he lives in a state (Texas) which is used to voting “Republican”, the US rear, as we can see, has a critical eye on the outgoing president. “Before, when there were protests, people would drop to one knee (1) , that the NBA was taking action, we were more united and we tried to find a solution to settle things, ”he continues. “There, it’s ‘You shouldn’t do this, you shouldn’t do that…’. This is not the way and the way America works. It’s hard to see that. “
While the polls are favorable to Joe Biden (but they were also for Hillary Clinton four years ago…), Ron Lewis will therefore cross his fingers for the Democratic candidate to win. What if Donald Trump was re-elected for a second term? ” It would be (he thinks)… I could still be in France four more years (smile). It would be very difficult for the Americans, for the Nation ”…
(1) To protest against police violence.
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