Americans celebrate Thanksgiving after bitter election

NEW YORK: Parades, shot and feasts were connected the paper Thursday arsenic Americans celebrated the yearly Thanksgiving holiday, with stormy skies and the bitterly fought predetermination hanging implicit galore families' festivities.

Despite a driving rainfall successful New York, crowds inactive showed up to ticker arsenic ornate floats and mega-balloons made their mode to Macy's, the iconic section store and sponsor of the yearly parade.

Similar events were held successful cities crossed the United States to people the holiday, which has been celebrated for centuries and codified successful 1941 arsenic falling connected the 4th Thursday of November.

Viewed arsenic a infinitesimal for families to get unneurotic -- typically astir a large repast starring a roast turkey -- it is the busiest question play of the year.

A grounds of astir 80 cardinal radical were expected to deed the roads, alert oregon usage immoderate different method to question implicit 50 miles (80 kilometers) astir the holiday, according to estimates by the nationalist automobile radical AAA.

But galore had to contend with a large tempest strategy that swept crossed the state this week, which was continuing Thursday to dump rainfall and snowfall connected the northeast, including successful New York and Boston.

The vacation besides features aggregate NFL shot matches, which galore Americans ticker successful a post-feast slumber.

- 'Radical near lunatics' -

Families divided implicit their governmental views were besides bracing for imaginable strife, with the vacation gatherings the archetypal since the November 5 predetermination won by Donald Trump.

With the highly divisive Republican's instrumentality to the White House, galore families are hoping to wholly debar treatment of politics.

Some are forgoing household gatherings altogether, specified arsenic Deb Miedema successful Minnesota.

“I can’t ideate preparing a repast for 40 radical and fractional of them are OK with this situation,“ the 50-year-old told AFP this week.

“Trump doesn’t halt telling lies, he’s a criminal, and each of that is good with them.”

Joe Biden was spending his past Thanksgiving arsenic president with household connected the land of Nantucket, Massachusetts, wherever helium visited a section occurrence section and concisely spoke to reporters.

Asked what helium was thankful for, the 82-year-old replied: “My family, the peaceful modulation of the presidency, and I’m thankful by the grace of God we were capable to marque much advancement successful the Middle East.”

In Washington, Vice President Kamala Harris visited a section nutrient nonprofit to assistance hole escaped meals, wherever she was asked by reporters what was adjacent for her aft her nonaccomplishment to Trump.

“Thanksgiving dinner,“ she joked.

Like Biden, she was scheduled to marque calls with subject work members for the holiday.

Trump, for his part, posted connected societal media: “Happy Thanksgiving to all, including to the Radical Left Lunatics who person worked truthful hard to destruct our Country, but who person miserably failed.”