{"id":68969,"date":"2024-11-13T10:21:56","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=68969"},"modified":"2024-12-06T10:22:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T18:22:38","slug":"the-impact-of-the-2024-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=68969","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of the 2024 Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_author tdi_67 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_67\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-author-name-wrap\"><span class=\"tdb-author-by\">By<\/span><a class=\"tdb-author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/author\/selen-ozturk\/\">Selen Ozturk<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_date tdi_68 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 tdb-post-meta\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_68\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><i class=\"tdb-date-icon tdc-font-fa tdc-font-fa-calendar\"><\/i><time class=\"entry-date updated td-module-date\" datetime=\"2024-11-12T09:00:00-08:00\">Nov 12, 2024<\/time><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_subtitle tdi_69 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_69\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The presidential election has left a country questioning outcomes on political violence, women, immigrants and the environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_featured_image tdi_70 tdb-content-horiz-left td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_70\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb\" title=\"Screen Shot 2024-11-11 at 6.13.13 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-6.13.13-PM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2396px) 100vw, 2396px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-6.13.13-PM.png 2396w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-6.13.13-PM-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-6.13.13-PM-1024x554.png 1024w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-6.13.13-PM-768x415.png 768w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-6.13.13-PM-1536x831.png 1536w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-6.13.13-PM-2048x1108.png 2048w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-6.13.13-PM-150x81.png 150w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-6.13.13-PM-696x376.png 696w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-6.13.13-PM-1068x578.png 1068w, https:\/\/ethnicmediaservices.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Screen-Shot-2024-11-11-at-6.13.13-PM-1920x1039.png 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"2396\" height=\"1296\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_71 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_71\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>The presidential election has left a country questioning outcomes on political violence, women, immigrants and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Through all these issues, November 5 shattered public assumptions that an increasingly multiracial America necessarily means an increasingly progressive one, said political, immigration and economic experts at a Friday, November 8 Ethnic Media Services briefing on election insights.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Political violence<\/h2>\n<p>There\u2019s a similar public misconception around political violence: \u201cWe seem to assume that either we can predict it or else it\u2019s not going to happen at all, which is why we\u2019re constantly surprised when it does happen,\u201d said Dr. Robert Pape, professor of political science at the University of Chicago and founder and director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchicago.edu\/education-and-research\/center\/the_chicago_project_on_security_and_threats\/\">CPOST<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Already, as of November 8, the Justice Department disclosed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iran-fbi-justice-department-iran-83cff84a7d65901a058ad6f41a564bdb\">murder-for-hire plot<\/a>\u00a0for an accused Iranian government asset to kill President-elect Trump before the election.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"xI-UC8y5PTM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget2\" title=\"The Threat of Political Violence \u2013 \u201cWe Are in a Tinderbox of a Country\u201d\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xI-UC8y5PTM?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Professor Robert Pape, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago and Founder and Director, Chicago Project on Security and Threats (CPOST), shares what he believes are the potential triggers for political violence, post-election.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe need to be watchful against this. It would not come as a surprise to me if there are more assassination attempts between now and January 20 \u2026 and in the first 100 days after that, especially if he proceeds with aggressive deportation plans, which include sending ICE agents into blue sanctuary cities like Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Portland \u2026 where immigration protests turned violent in 2020,\u201d said Pape.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolitical violence operates like a wildfire. We can measure the material that can combust, but we can\u2019t predict the triggering lightning strikes, thrown cigarette butts, the unattended campfires,\u201d he added. \u201cBecause the Washington resistance march this January, for instance, is planned to be a peaceful gathering of 50,000, that doesn\u2019t mean it will be. We\u2019re in a tinderbox of a country.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Women<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWhat contributes to political violence are narratives that blame any one group of people for the outcome of this election \u2014 like that women lost the election for a woman candidate,\u201d said Kelly Dittmar, research director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.<\/p>\n<p>2024 exit polls show that 54% of women and 44% of men voted for Harris, while 44% of women and 54% of men voted for Trump.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"bNBmv8Sye0E\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget4\" title=\"Trump Tapped Into Fears of Gender Role Disruption\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bNBmv8Sye0E?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Kelly Dittmar, Director of Research, Center for American Women and Politics, Rutgers University, says Trump has consistently played into a fear of gender-role disruption and masculinity being threatened, which proved effective in a campaign against a female candidate.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The 2024 voting gender gap, where women were 10 points less likely than men to support Trump, is similar to those in recent elections; in 2020 the gap was 12 points, while in 2016 it was 11.<\/p>\n<p>Women have been more likely than men to support the Democratic candidate and less likely to support the Republican in every election since 1980 \u2014 \u201cBut these aggregate counts alone are insufficient to truly understand the women\u2019s vote,\u201d said Dittmar.<\/p>\n<p>While most white women (52%) voted Republican, for example, over 90% of Black women voted Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>An AP VoteCast exit poll shows that a third of Black women said Harris being the first woman president \u201cwas the most important factor\u201d in their vote, compared to 14% of all women and 11% of all men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe talk about the gender of the voters, but we also have to recognize the ways in which gender plays a role in who we\u2019re willing to vote for,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>An October 2024 Public Religion Research Institute\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.prri.org\/research\/challenges-to-democracy-the-2024-election-in-focus-findings-from-the-2024-american-values-survey\/\">survey<\/a>\u00a0found that, while the 43% of Americans overall agreeing that \u201csociety as a whole has become too soft and feminine\u201d is down from 48% agreeing in 2023, partisan divides have more than doubled since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Now, 73% of Republicans say that society is too soft and feminine, compared with 42% of independents and 16% of Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s less about Harris\u2019 identity, and more about why a man tapping into grievances about threatened masculinity did not disqualify him from winning,\u201d added Dittmar.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"PDPD04iYiMw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget6\" title=\"Despite Electing Trump, Most Americans Reject Mass Deportation, Support Legal Immigration\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PDPD04iYiMw?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Vanessa Cardenas, Executive Director, America\u2019s Voice, discusses the impact that the Trump presidency will have on immigration, as well as on the lives of immigrants.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Immigrants and Asian Americans<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWithout sugar coating it, this is the worst outcome we could have expected \u2026\u00a0That the majority of the popular vote is against us,\u201d said Vanessa Cardenas, executive director of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/americasvoice.org\/\">America\u2019s Voice<\/a>. \u201cEconomic issues overtook everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A September 2024\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2024\/09\/09\/issues-and-the-2024-election\/\">Pew Research<\/a>\u00a0poll found that 81% of registered voters said \u201cthe economy will be very important to their vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ap-votecast-trump-harris-election-president-voters-86225516e8424431ab1d19e57a74f198\">AP exit poll<\/a>\u00a0found \u201cvoters broadly believed that Trump would be better equipped than Harris to handle the economy and jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s no surprise that immigration was another major motivating factor, because Republicans ran the most vicious anti-immigrant campaign of any major party in modern history,\u201d Cardenas continued.<\/p>\n<p>An October 2024 America\u2019s Voice\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/americasvoice.org\/blog\/the-gop-doubled-down-hard-on-nativism\/\">report<\/a>\u00a0using AdImpact data finds that Republican candidates and organizations spent \u201c$964 million on 1,892 unique TV ads that mention immigration so far this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"RDU7_cu795s\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget8\" title=\"Asian American Voters Support Offering Undocumented Immigrants a Path to Citizenship\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RDU7_cu795s?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>John C. Yang, President and Executive Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, AAJC, says survey data shows that immigration was a top concern for Asian American voters, with the majority being in favor of laws that support immigrants.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cImmigration itself is being redefined,\u201d explained Cardenas. \u201cAs conversations around ending birthright citizenship, TPS and DACA are becoming mainstreamed, the lines between \u2018legal\u2019 and \u2018undocumented\u2019 are being blurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Asian American voting bloc is particularly supportive of pro-immigrant laws, especially those allowing citizens to bring relatives to the U.S., said John C. Yang, president and executive director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC).<\/p>\n<p>The AAPI community has the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancingjustice-aajc.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2019-06\/1153_AAJC_Immigration_Final_Pages_LR-compressed.pdf\">highest<\/a>\u00a0proportion of immigrants among all racial and ethnic groups, with about two-thirds of Asian Americans and one-sixth of Pacific Islanders born outside the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>An October 2024 Pew\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2024\/10\/09\/why-asian-immigrants-come-to-the-u-s-and-how-they-view-life-here\/\">poll<\/a>\u00a0found that 82% of Asian American immigrants supported prioritizing family immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p>An AAJC voter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancingjustice-aajc.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2024-07\/2024-AAVS-Full-Report_July15-2024.pdf\">survey<\/a>\u00a0conducted that month found that overall, however, the issues most important to AAPI voters were similar] to those most important to voters generally, the top three being jobs and the economy (86%), inflation (85%) and healthcare (85%).<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Green jobs<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThese issues have led to Trump being the first Republican president to be elected with having won the popular vote in more than 20 years,\u201d said Ben Jealous, executive director of the Sierra Club and former president and CEO of the NAACP. \u201cYou can\u2019t account for this without looking at the deindustrialization of our nation in the last 30 years after NAFTA.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"NEQdS5PAWjY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"widget10\" title=\"The Inflation Reduction Act Is Reviving American Manufacturing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NEQdS5PAWjY?feature=oembed&amp;enablejsapi=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ben Jealous, Executive Director, Sierra Club and former President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), discusses the Inflation Reduction Act and the impact it will have on the U.S. economy.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since 1994, when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) came into effect under President Clinton, the U.S. lost over 80,000 manufacturing plants through 2014, the last year that Census Business Dynamics Statistics\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/programs-surveys\/bds.html\">data<\/a>\u00a0is available.<\/p>\n<p>In comparison, there are approximately 19,500 cities and towns in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means that most Americans now live where there used to be a factory, and when that factory shut down, what shot up was despair, poverty, joblessness, drug abuse and death from suicide,\u201d said Jealous. \u201cWe\u2019ve got to get back to the basic American formula of building an economy that lifts all boats by doing what we\u2019ve always done: designing new things by following the science, then building them here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the Inflation Reduction Act, passed under President Biden in 2022 and authorizing $783 billion for domestic energy and climate change spending, the largest in U.S. history, \u201cWe\u2019re doing something we haven\u2019t done in my lifetime: opening factories through the biggest economic opportunity on earth, a chance to change the way the world is powered,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>As of August 2024, Climate Power\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/climatepower.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Clean-Energy-Boom-Two-Year-Anniversary-Report-RES-2024_07_30-DR.pdf\">data<\/a>\u00a0shows that U.S. companies have reported 646 new clean energy projects, creating 334,565 new jobs and driving $372 billion in new investments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe turn to the right that we saw is a straight line from us betraying the working people of this country,\u201d said Jealous, adding that this was reflected in Trump\u2019s own performance: \u201cIn 2016, he promised to kill Obamacare, and his own party rebelled. This time, Vice President-elect Vance attacked the new green jobs as \u2018table scraps,\u2019 and Republican voters roared back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn many red states, voters can be divided on whether or not they want clean technology, but they\u2019re united on wanting it produced there, because they understand that their fortunes are tied to it,\u201d he added. \u201cTrump can say what he wants, but this is the future, and people aren\u2019t going back.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BySelen Ozturk Nov 12, 2024 The&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68970,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68969\/revisions\/68970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}