In the days leading up to the presidential election, when many polls pointed to a Kamala Harris victory for the American presidency, many residents of coastal towns and college towns should celebrate election night.

Instead, Donald Trumpa convicted felon, made an improbable comeback to become the nation’s 47th president.

“I realize the country has spoken, and as an LGBTQ person and as someone who believes that women and people of all genders deserve equal rights, does that matter? And the country wants to continue to think that the climate change doesn’t matter. a woman wearing an abortion rights shirt said The new Arabic in tears after the projected election results.

“The country has spoken, and they don’t care about anyone, anything, or human rights. All they care about is endless growth and regressive ideas about gender. What if “That’s where the country is, I don’t know where to go.” from here,” said the woman, not wanting to give her name. She added that she expects there to be elections in the future, but not real elections, similar to those that take place in illiberal democracies.

“I still believe in the promise of America, even though now is not the time when that promise will come true,” she said, fighting back tears.

Jason Backrak, who said he happily voted for Harris, seemed to take the projected results with more equanimity.

“If we put someone like that in power, we deserve the repercussions,” he said. TNA. “I think everything will be fine for our country. I’m going to wake up tomorrow and see what happens.”

A man at a watch party at a San Francisco bar said TNA he believed that the voters had chosen Asset because they didn’t think about the future but only about the present. He suggested that if people sat down together at a table, they would discover that they had more in common than they thought.

The bar played theme songs related to the election results, while patrons emptied themselves into the cold air and largely empty streets.

Overall, the mood in the country’s main urban areas, Democratic strongholds, was gloomy Tuesday evening. Harris had planned to address his supporters at a watch party at the historically black college Howard University in Washington, DC.

But by the end of Tuesday evening, she had not spoken to her supporters or delivered a concession speech.