After Trump’s win, this is what I’m grateful for as an American living in Australia | Eleanor Limprecht

I know we must fight to protect the rights we have in Australia but which the US is on the cusp of losing (or has already lost)

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More than a month ago I took my postal ballot for the US state of Virginia to my local Sydney suburban post office, paid for a registered letter, and sent it off with hopes for vice-president Kamala Harris's victory and the defeat of the convicted criminal Donald Trump.

I was surprised how many of my Australian friends expressed envy when I told them I had voted in the US presidential election. I wish I could vote too," one said, so much is riding on this".

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