FROM THE DESK OF THE PRESIDENT
Dear Social Work Community,
A Personal Reflection
As I lay here awake at 3 a.m., staring into the darkness, my mind won’t stop
racing. I don’t know what to feel, what to think, or what to do. How did this
happen? What did we expect would happen?
The numbers swirl in my head. Donald Trump won 77,284,118 votes—49.8% of
all votes cast for president. That’s the second-highest total in U.S. history,
just behind Joe Biden’s 81,284,666 votes in 2020. Trump gained over 3 million
more votes than he did in 2020 and 14 million more than in 2016. These aren’t
just numbers; they represent people—millions of people who felt compelled to
cast their vote for him again, or maybe for the first time.
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