After a campaign marked by Coronavirus, a record turnout and agonising long days to count all the votes (with US President Donald Trump busy posting on Twitter deranged messages about an alleged vote fraud...), Democrat Joe Biden was finally elected 46th president of the United States.
The ballots from Pennsylvania pushed Biden's lead in the state over 30,000 votes and the win in this state took his electoral college vote to 284, surpassing the 270 needed to win the White House. Joe Biden's election puts an end to the reign of confusion, chaos and aggressiveness of Donald Trump, whose divisive presidency split the nation, spreading a semantic of violence. Biden has vowed to be a unifying force, a President for the entire country, including those ones who didn't vote for him. "I am honored and humbled by the trust the American people have placed in me and in Vice President-elect Harris. In the face of unprecedented obstacles, a record number of Americans voted," Biden stated on Twitter.
While the 2020 presidential election is the first in history in which more people voted in advance of election day (98 million people had already voted ahead of election day), there is actually another historical result in this election. Kamala Harris is indeed the first woman of colour to serve as vice-president in American history. Harris is the fourth woman to be on a major party's presidential ticket, after Geraldine Ferraro in 1984, Sarah Palin in 2008 and Hillary Clinton in 2016. Harris will be sworn in as Vice President in January.
Harris has got a dynamic style and often matches her suits with sneakers and, while it would be reductive to talk about her through her wardrobe, you already know that the style choices of Madam Vice President will soon become the favourite topic of many publications, not just fashion-related sites. Will she become the muse of fashion designers (she already inspired the Converse Chuck Taylor sneakers by Social Status and Nina Chanel Abney; all pairs were donated to students at Johnson C. Smith University, a HBCU based in Social Status's hometown of Charlotte) and what will happen in 2024? Will we see two women as Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates? Time will tell, but, for now ,a wind of change blows across the United States and this fearless change may be running on comfy sneakers.
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