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America, don’t vote Trump

 Voters in the United States of America head to the poll Tuesday, 5th November, to elect the 47th president in the country’s nearly 250-year nationhood. Their options are down to a straight choice between Vice-President Kamala Harris, who bids on Democratic ticket to make history as the first female commander-in-chief of the world’s most influential country, and former President Donald Trump, the 45th president who aims on Republican ticket to retake the reins he lost in the 2020 election to incumbent President Joe Biden. If he gets his way, he will be the second defeated president in all U.S. history to regain the office, following after Grover Cleveland – the first to be elected president after the 1885 American civil war. Cleveland, a Democrat, was the 22nd president and he returned for a second term as 24th president four years after he initially lost the White House. Under the U.S. electoral system, election day climaxes voters’ exercise of their franchise that has been underway f