By Nelson A. King
NEW YORK, Nov 6, CMC – The Caribbean-American community in New York early Wednesday expressed profound disappointment and frustration over the election of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States.
Trump, the 45th US president, defeated Caribbean-American US Vice President, Kamala Harris, the daughter of Jamaican-born retired economist Dr. Donald Harris, in the hotly-contested race.
The former president, among other things, survived a criminal conviction, indictments, assassination attempt and charges of authoritarianism in securing the requisite swing states — including Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania — in winning 277 Electoral College votes to reclaim the US presidency. Harris received 224 Electoral College votes.
“It’s very disappointing,” Guyanese-born New York State Senator, Roxanne Persaud, told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), adding “the bottom line is America is not ready for a woman president.
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