“Some of the political opinions and rhetoric I encountered were completely horrible, but when I had actual one-on-one conversations with people, they couldn’t have been nicer. “That’s the great tragedy of American politics,” says photographer Jamie Lee Taete of the final days of the US election. “That everyone is basically in the same boat and being convinced to hate each other by the powerful who are really making everyone’s lives miserable. Even Kari Lake, who spent much of the speech I attended pointing toward the area and talking about how evil we all are, he gave me and a couple of other photographers what seemed like a pretty genuine thank you as he was leaving the event.”
Photography: Jamie Lee Taete
Attendees at the Kari Lake rally in Prescott, Arizona.
