With votes still being counted in battleground states, a panel of experts took part in a webcast on November 4th, 2020 to begin making sense of the seesawing presidential election, and the participants liked much of what they’d seen.
The panelists in the “U.S. Election Debrief,” organized by the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), stressed there were silver linings in the election, such as massive turnout and orderly voting processes despite concerns over threats and possible violence.
“At this moment, the country stands divided by class fissures and racial fault lines in the middle of a pandemic, and nevertheless nearly 100 million people cast ballots in the midst of 9 million coronavirus cases and 230,000 coronavirus fatalities” said Cornell William Brooks, faculty director of The William Monroe Trotter Collaborative on Social Justice. “This is a testament to the intestinal fortitude of people all across the country.”
