Justine Sherry, CMU Portugal Faculty and Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, and CMU Portugal Ph.D. students, currently in the U.S., were featured in the Portuguese media outlets Jornal de Notícias and TSF to speak on the U.S. Elections. The state of Pennsylvania represents 19 votes in the Electoral College, playing a pivotal role in the elections.
The professor, who resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where Carnegie Mellon University is located, shares that she received many vote appeals, admitting that it has been a “stressful process” and that “the country has its eyes on us”. She adds that “Pennsylvania is in the middle of everything,”. Among the students of the classes Justine Sherry teaches, there are a few of CMU Portugal students that are “very well prepared, intelligent and creative”, praise Sherry.
Hugo Sadok, CMU Ph.D. student, states that Pittsburgh is under a “blue bubble” alluding to the Democrats’ symbolic color. However, in counties far from the urban centers, “many choose Republicans.” Duarte Sousa, an Affiliated Ph.D. student in Human-Computer Interaction currently at CMU, states that “the [electoral campaign] process takes a long time, and people are tired. They want the elections to happen, to go back to their lives and have discussions about useless things”.
Hugo Sadok predicts that “the world will change” if Donald Trump wins the election, but there will be fewer changes if Kamala Harris wins. The elections will take place on November 5th.
Read the articles Jornal de Notícias and hear the news piece at TSF (in Portuguese).