I was interviewed and quoted in a Miami Herald article by Max Greenwood while I attended President Trump’s watch party in Palm Beach, FL. Here’s an excerpt:
Donald Trump declared victory in the presidential election early Wednesday morning, basking in the cheers of his supporters in South Florida as he closed in on the 270 electoral votes needed to formally clinch the White House. Speaking to a tightly packed crowd at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, the former president, who was ousted from the White House four years ago, called his performance “a political victory that our country has never seen before.”
“We’re going to fix our borders, we’re going to fix everything about our country,” Trump said. “We made history for a reason tonight and the reason is just that. We overcame obstacles that no thought possible.” Flanked by his family, his running mate JD Vance and top campaign advisers, Trump promised to unite a deeply divided nation and usher in a “Golden Age of America.” Vance, speaking briefly between Trump’s remarks, said that Americans had just witnessed “the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America.”
. . . . . Sitting at a table with his eyes fixed on one of the several TV screens lining the room, Dan Backer, a 47-year-old attorney and conservative activist from Pompano Beach, said earlier in the evening that he was “cautiously optimistic” about Trump’s chances of reclaiming the White House. “I don’t want to get ahead of myself. I think it’s going to come down to Pennsylvania, most likely, but we’ll see,” he said. “Republicans are up in early voting and mail voting and a lot of us still tend to vote today, so that’s a good sign.” Trump ultimately captured Pennsylvania and its 19 electoral votes on Tuesday, putting him just one state away from formally winning the presidency. That win appeared imminent on Wednesday morning as vote counts in several states showed Trump in the lead.
Gayle Trotter, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney and political analyst, said that she didn’t “have any doubt” that Trump would come out on top.
She argued that public polls, which have shown Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris deadlocked for weeks, had likely failed to capture Trump’s true popularity and predicted a stronger-than-expected showing for the former president on Tuesday night.
“I’m confident, I’m very excited, I think Trump is going to over-perform all the polls as he’s done in the past,” Trotter said. “I think they under-represent the support that he has.”
….. That support proved resilient in Tuesday’s election as the former president racked up victories in key swing states, like Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania and exit polls showed him making gains among traditionally Democratic-leaning constituencies, including Latino men and some college-educated voters. Trump, a famously adversarial politician who has frequently been accused of stoking divisions, appeared eager to embrace that broader coalition in his speech early Wednesday. “This will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country,” Trump said. “It’s time to put the divisions of the last four years behind us. It’s time to unite.”
