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Issued 9/20 Facebook.com/TheReporterNewspapers ■ twitter.com/Reporter_News Spirit of unity, suburban impacts are lingering questions after presidential election BY JOHN RUCH Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential election victory over Republican incumbent Donald Trump is being greeted with different emotions among some local political observers — but also with common hopes of Georgia and America moving forward in a spirit of unity. It remains to be seen whether such a spirit can emerge from a contentious elec tion that Trump refused to concede amid lengthy audits. And activists in both par ties were bracing for two momentous runoff elections Jan. 5 for Georgia’s two U.S. Senate seats that could decide that chamber’s partisan control. Another outstand ing question: How the presidential election and the Senate battles may trickle down into local politics in the Atlanta suburbs that appeared to drive Biden’s victory. “You can’t be expecting me to think with words in a moment of such intense emotion,” said Valerie Habif of Sandy Springs, a co-founder of a grassroots polit ical group called the Jewish Democratic Women’s Salon, on Nov. 7, the day media organizations projected Biden as the winner. “...In the midst of the nightmare that we were living, could we ever have dreamed that Georgia would do this? And now what’s ahead of us is greater than what was behind us,” she said, referring to the Senate battle. J. Max Davis, a Republican who was Broolchaven’s founding mayor and whose fa ther long served in the Georgia House of Representatives, voted for Trump. But he also once met Biden in person and likes him. Davis spoke on the phone from Flori da, where his family went on vacation after tiring of the grueling anxiety of watch ing day after day of election counts. “I know people that are upset. I’m slightly upset,” said Davis. “But when it comes down to it, we’re all Americans. We just all need to understand that withdrawing from a friend or castigating your neighbor because of their politics is really a little bit infantile.” Davis said he is reminded “the world is not coming to an end tomorrow” and that “we all have to row this boat together.” Division and unity For activists like Habif, Biden’s victory is a triumph over the Trump’s insulting manners and approving comments of White supremacists and neo-Nazis in a time that saw an increase in reports of anti-Semitic incidents and violence. She said she wishes election numbers had a bigger margin and “had been a more resounding re pudiation of Trump.” But it will do. “Look at us. We have the first Black vice president, and the first female Black vice president, and the first Indian American vice president,” Habif said, referring to Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris. “There’s a Yiddish word... lcvell. It’s when you’re filled with pride, filled with joyous pride. What we’re doing is, we’re levell ing.” Davis said he understands why Trump turned off many voters as a person. “I voted for Trump. It doesn’t mean that I agree with everything he said or did,” said Davis. “I know he’s crass. I know he’s bombastic like the salesman that he is.” But, Davis said, Trump had many good policies and successes on the economy, Chi na trade and remaking of international free trade agreements. On the other hand, “I think Biden has a little of that in him as well,” Davis add ed. “I don’t dislike Joe Biden at all.... He’s a good person. I think he wants what’s best for the country,” though his advisors and Democratic Party officials might be a dif ferent story. Davis’s perception comes from a visit he made to the Obama White House for a U.S. Conference of Mayors event while he was leader of Broolchaven. Davis said he ended up sitting with the then vice president — at one point even serving as Biden’s support when he stood on a chair to give a speech — and spent 25 minutes speak ing one-on-one with him.
