Throughout the election, Pence was also dogged by accusations that he supported вЂњconversion therapy,вЂќ a process that attempts to change a personвЂ™s sexual orientation to straight.In an interview with Politico, historian and autocracy expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat suggested that the cult of personality that elevated Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States may be drawing to a close as his 2020 election loss, the subsequent criminal investigations and political rivals take their toll. While Trump has said that same-sex marriage is вЂњsettledвЂќ thanks to a Supreme Court ruling, his running mate, now-Vice President Mike Pence, has a history of anti-LGBT policies and positions. In the throes of election night drama, Ally and Ivy worry that their marriage might not be recognized under the new Trump administration.

The potential end of Ally and IvyвЂ™s marriage The Huffington Post put ClintonвЂ™s chances at 98 percent. SilverвЂ™s website, FiveThirtyEight, projected ClintonвЂ™s chances of winning the election at over 71 percent. Her animosity is a reference to pollsters who projected Clinton as the clear winner of the election during the run-up to Nov. In the moments after Clinton concedes the election to Trump, Ally screams her anger at the Huffington Post and statistician Nate Silver. вЂњFвЂ“k you, Huffington Post! FвЂ“k you, Nate Silver!вЂќ Her partner, Ivy (Alison Pill), obviously harbors some resentment for AllyвЂ™s вЂњprotest vote.вЂќДЄlso Read: Why вЂњAmerican Horror Story: CultвЂќ Is the ShowвЂ™s Best Season Since вЂњMurder HouseвЂќ

She histrionically despairs at TrumpвЂ™s victory in the opening portion of the episode, only for it to be revealed later that she voted for Stein. In вЂњAmerican Horror Story,вЂќ this is a particular point of contention because one of those Stein voters is Ally Mayfair-Richards (Sarah Paulson). In Michigan in 2016, that is arguably the case - if just 10,000 Stein voters instead went to Clinton, she would have won the state. The argument is that people who otherwise would have voted for a Democrat vote for the Green Party, which can give a Republican the edge they need to win. The Green Party has been blamed before for causing losses for Democratic candidates.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein also gets a few mentions in the first episode of вЂњAmerican Horror Story: Cult.вЂќ Although she was nowhere near winning, coming in at less than 1.5 million votes nationally, she did manage to pull about 51,000 votes in the state of Michigan, far more than the margin of TrumpвЂ™s victory. Voting for Jill Stein might have caused Hillary Clinton to lose Who voted for whom in the election creates some serious tension in its aftermath. For the characters in the showвЂ™s fictional small town in the Southeast Michigan suburbs, this means that every vote really did count.

At the time, Michigan was considered a battleground state, and Trump won it by a razor-thin margin - just over 10,000 votes. Though Michigan has gone to the Democratic presidential candidate in every election since 1992, in 2016, the state turned red.

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