Mayor Kasim Reed: Donald Trump’s Win ’Was Tough’
Johnny Kauffman / WABE
Mayor Kasim Reed says he spent some time in the fetal position after Donald Trump won the election.
“I think the appropriate joke for me would be, I slept like a baby,” he said. “Sleep, get up cry a little bit, then go back to sleep, sleep get up cry a little bit. So it was tough.”
Reed was one of Hillary Clinton’s most visible supporters in Georgia.
“I was with President Obama in 08. I was with him in 12. And I know what it feels like to go to sleep with your person winning. This time my person didn’t win,” he said. “And so what we’ve got to do for the country is just to get up and work with the folks who won. It is one of the beauties of our democracy, but it’s not as pleasant as being on the other side where I was picking out my seat on the platform for the inaugural ceremony.”
Reed appeared with Republican Gov. Nathan Deal and Democratic Fulton County Chairman John Eaves today to announce a new UPS logistics center in Atlanta. They emphasized how they’ve worked together across party lines.
“We all understand that we may have different political affiliations, but in one form or the other, we all are elected to represent people in the state of Georgia,” Deal said. “When you’re looking and focusing on the people, job creation is one of the things that is very high on the list of importance.”
Reed said he believes Georgia will turn purple eventually.
“Cobb County being a Democrat county, Gwinnett County going Democrat, I think has huge long-term ramifications for the state,” he said.
The mayor said he is not reconsidering his decision to leave politics after his term is up because, he said, his wife is not having any reassessments about it.
And he asked people who are protesting against Donald Trump to exercise their First Amendment rights “responsibly.”
“Donald Trump is going to be our president,” he said. “The bottom line is, is that there’s another election in four years. There’s another election in two years.”
Johnny Kauffman contributed to this story.
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