Jennifer Lawrence revealed during an interview how she has been holding a grudge after the 2016 US election results. She believes that the result unlocked a rift in her family. The 32-year-old actor also added that now she does not need to deal with political people who ‘aren’t political' anymore.

According to Lawrence, it is quite difficult to set aside political differences as people in the US ‘have to be’ political. Growing up in a conservative family, Jennifer Lawrence experienced the tension sparked within her family during the presidential election in 2016.

Whom did Jennifer Lawrence target about the 2016 presidential election result?
During the interview with Vogue, Jennifer Lawrence got candid about the tension that resulted in the presidential election. She clearly revealed that Donald Trump’s win caused a political rift in her family in Kentucky.

In the election result, Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton, a candidate whom Lawrence wanted to be the President of the US then. Lawrence’s family, on the other hand, supported Republican Trump.

Lawrence explained that she worked hard in the last five years to mend the relationship with her father and her family since the controversial election.

She found it quite difficult as the information her family got is different and the lives of her family are different in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.

She was heartbroken as the US people made a choice between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump whom she called a dangerous jar of mayonnaise.

Has Donald Trump kept the promises he made before his 2016 presidential win

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Judging Trump’s promises

According to a report by NYT, four years ago, Donald Trump won the presidency after making a series of concrete promises to his supporters. “I would repeal and replace the big lie, Obamacare,” he said during his kickoff speech. “I would build a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me.” Unlike his 2020 campaign, which is based on vague promises of more “winning, winning, winning,” Trump’s campaign four years ago was rooted in promises of tax cuts and the appointment of judges with conservative credentials. In reality, Trump has broken about half of 100 campaign promises, according to a tracker by PolitiFact. The fact-checking website does not measure intention, only verifiable outcomes.

Building a wall and making Mexico pay for it

Erecting a barrier along the southwestern border was the defining rallying cry of Trump’s 2016 campaign. “Build the Wall” became a chant, he promised to build 1,000 miles of border wall, and passing on the cost to Mexico was the delicious kicker. Over the past four years, the Trump administration had constructed 371 miles of border barriers, as of Oct 16. And it is on pace to reach 400 miles next week. However, all but 16 miles of the new barriers replace or reinforce existing structures. And Mexico is not paying for it.

Appointing Conservative judges

With three Supreme Court Justices and 25% of the federal judiciary now made up of Trump appointees, according to data from Russell Wheeler, a judiciary expert at the Brookings Institution, the president has been more successful on this campaign promise than perhaps any other. His nomination of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in the weeks before the election could reshape abortion rights, immigration law and the government’s regulatory power. Confirming a Supreme Court justice so close to an election was unprecedented, and Democrats framed it as an illegitimate power grab by Republicans.

Repealing the Affordable Care Act

The years long Republican campaign to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act came to a head unsuccessfully and dramatically in the first year of Trump’s presidency, when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., cast the decisive vote against the effort. The Democrats’ regaining a majority in the House of Representatives after the 2018 midterm elections all but doomed any subsequent legislative attempts to strike down the whole law. The president and his party are still trying. Republican lawmakers eliminated the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate as part of the 2017 tax cuts, and the Trump administration is arguing before the Supreme Court that the whole health care law should go down with it.

Tax cuts

The 2017 tax cuts are one of the biggest legislative achievements of Trump’s first term in office, and one celebrated by his supporters. “Business is booming. We’re coming back even stronger after COVID,” said Justin Davies, 36 and small-business owner in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. “The Trump tax cuts have saved us somewhere between $20,000 to $30,000 a year in taxes.” Some critics, however, have noted that the final tax cut that Trump signed into law was far smaller than what he promised as a candidate. The Tax Policy Center, run by the Brookings Institution, estimated that it was only one-quarter the size of the plan Trump campaigned on four years ago.

According to her, living in the US is too dire as people have to be political here.

Moreover, she added that politics is killing people.

How did Jennifer Lawrence react to the overturning of Roe v. Wade?
The Hunger Game actor also rallied against the overturning of Roe v. Wade as she had to suffer for the decision. In her early 20s, she got pregnant and she wanted an abortion. However, she had a miscarriage alone.

Unfortunately, she suffered from her second miscarriage during the shooting of Don’t Look Up, before she gave birth to a son with her husband Cooke Maroney this year.

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Donald Trump's win led to 'rift' in Jennifer Lawrence's family. Find out how

After 2016’s election result, Jennifer Lawrence was not happy with Donald Trump’s win as she revealed that the result caused a rift among her family members who held different political opinions. Lawrence also got candid while discussing her 2 miscarriages.