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2020-10-31 14:33
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The U.S. election is approaching. Nevada has been accused of being a swing state this time, and more than 200,000 people have voted in advance.
In 2016, the current president, Donald Trump, failed to win Nevada with a disadvantage of less than 2.5%. This year's Nevada election has become the focus.
Las Vegas, a casino in Nevada, was once closed due to the epidemic. This year, the unemployment rate has soared to 28.2%, ranking first in the United States. Many local residents believe that Trump's inability to fight the epidemic has caused the economy to suffer.
Abang, who worked in a casino and moved to Hong Kong for 9 years, was also a member of the epidemic. He was expelled from the casino due to the drastic reduction in tourists. After Trump was infected, he became more determined to vote for Democratic Party Joe Biden (Joe Biden). Voting, this is also his first vote in the United States.
Casinos in Las Vegas were closed and closed, and the unemployment rate once soared to more than 28%.
(AP)
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Four years ago, Trump entered the White House with the slogan "Make America Great Again"; four years later, the United States in Abang’s eyes did not become great again. On the contrary, he felt that the price of goods after Trump took office. Rising, the discrimination problem has become worse, and even the fight against the epidemic appears to be quite weak, so I tend to vote for Biden, hoping to change the current situation in the United States.
In the last general election, Abang did not vote because he felt that it had little impact on him, but this time he became the first voter and severely criticized Trump for "chaosing".
Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak voted early on October 17.
(AP)
After Trump took office, he played the "America First" economic card. He hoped to bring the industry back to the United States. He took a tough stance on China. He increased tariffs by more than 30% under the Sino-US trade war.
Abang pointed out that prices in Las Vegas are generally $1 to $2 higher than before. He believes that the situation is related to Trump's increase in tariffs, which will increase the cost of goods, which will eventually be passed on to consumers and increase their daily expenses.
Mentioned the policy that most dissatisfied Abang, Trump bypassed Congress to build a wall on the Mexican border at the beginning of his tenure. The cost was as high as $7 billion. He criticized the wall as having no practical effect on intercepting illegal immigrants. The citizens bear the cost.
In addition to "America First," Trump has reposted fragments of white supremacist slogans on social platforms during his tenure, and refused to condemn white supremacists in the first debate, and has repeatedly been bombarded with racism.
As a Chinese, Abang also feels that after Trump took office, the problem of discrimination in the United States has become serious. It is often seen in TV news that blacks are indiscriminately arrested or shot by the police. In "Black Lives Matter" (the lives of blacks are also After the anti-racism campaign, public security has deteriorated, and robberies have often occurred in the community. People have brought guns to their bodies, and the price of bullets has been fired up. Once out of stock.
Abang said frankly that he also bought a gun, and surveillance cameras were installed in his home just in case.
After Trump was diagnosed and recovered, he attended a rallying event in Las Vegas on October 18.
(AP)
In addition to people's livelihood issues, Trump's response to the new crown epidemic, and Trump's own infection, drove Abang to vote for Biden more firmly.
He severely criticized that Trump did not call on the public to wear masks at the beginning of the situation and did not propose more epidemic prevention measures. As a result, the number of infected patients in the United States was high.
The number of confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia in the United States has exceeded 8.46 million, and each state has decided to close the customs on its own.
Since the deaths in Nevada in March, Las Vegas casinos have been closed and the unemployment rate has soared to more than 28%.
Even if most of the casinos reopened in June, there are still 9 casinos choosing to continue to close due to the decrease in tourists. Many people working in the casinos have been fired, and Abang is one of them.
Abang lamented that Las Vegas is a tourist city. Most residents rely on tourists for their livelihoods, such as hotels, casinos, taxis, and travel agencies. Under the epidemic, everyone is either unemployed or facing underemployment. For example, if an Abang friend is a croupier in a casino, the working hours will be reduced from 8 hours a day to 6 hours in the past, and the labor will be reduced by about US$300 per month.
In response to the scandals that Biden broke out about doing business with China, Abang responded with "Even if the scandal spreads out, it’s better than Trump." He believed that Trump’s performance in the past four years was poor and he hoped that Biden could end it after he took office. The Sino-US trade war also hopes that the US economy will recover again after the epidemic.
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