Conservative Students at UW-Madison Celebrate Trump Victory
Democrats saw support among UW students decline from 2020 and 2016
After President Donald Trump’s landslide electoral victory on Tuesday, conservative students at UW-Madison celebrated and expressed excitement about the future.
In a press release, the College Republicans of UW-Madison said, “Thanks to the work of College Republicans, results from UW-Madison voting precincts indicate a nearly 8% growth in student support for the Republican presidential ticket in 2024 as compared to 2020. This is extremely encouraging and reflects the strength of our student body and organization as we overcame the COVID-19 pandemic, gained membership, and hosted our largest event since 2019.”
Annabella Pascarelli, a senior, said “The response from the left, including some liberal students at UW-Madison, is a testament to the reasons behind President Trump’s victory. The American people are not at fault for voting in their best interests and should not be demeaned or villainized for putting cogent policy over hyperbolic rhetoric and fear-mongering.”
“Students are ‘appalled’ at this election’s events because they exist in an academic echo-chamber that refuses to interact with conservative ideology. They are “shocked” because they are isolated from the farmer in Northern Wisconsin who risked losing their farm because of rising inflation, the mother and daughter in Praire due Chein who suffered abuse at the hands of a Tren de Agua gang member, the Jewish student who was forced to walk across campus as protesters call for a global intifada.”
“Young people should seek to overcome the political sins of previous generations, and to do that, we must break this cycle of violent rhetoric towards one another — if the response from this election is an indication of our path forward, I fear that we will be damned to repeat the same mistakes of those who came before us,” Pascarelli told The Madison Federalist.
Praveer Tiwari, a freshman, said “I agree with Trump’s economic policies and the values the unity coalition he has formed display and advocate, but more than that, it’s what the candidates represented that was a deciding factor for me.”
“Kamala Harris and the Democrat Party represent an ideology and a future for our country that was always running away from something in our nation’s past out of fear and hatred, which is demoralizing, demonizing, and overall harmful for us as a people and will take us nowhere.”
Tiwari said Trump can help America “run towards the excellence we seek as a nation and truly make our lives healthy again, our communities safe again, our families prosperous again, and Make America Great Again.”
Another student, who did not wish to be named, said, “I’m not surprised that Trump won. I feel like the Democrats’ message was very out of touch with the average American, and I believe that the Trump campaign was far more connected to the current American experience than the Harris campaign. I feel like there’s a lot of excitement and eagerness in rural America right now, and that makes me very happy.”
College Republicans will hold a party and fundraiser with “special guests” on November 21st to celebrate Trump’s electoral victory.