Member's statement: US Presidential Election
Member's statement by Mr Gerry Carroll on .
- MLA
- Mr Gerry Carroll
- Party at the time
- People Before Profit Alliance
- Date
- 12 November 2024
- Type
- Member's statement
- Business
- Members' Statements
- Heading
- US Presidential Election
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4658261
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Text
I want to disassociate myself from all the positive platitudes that have been meted out to Donald Trump on his re-election to the White House. Trump is a racist, sexist bigot who gives a damn only about himself and the American ruling class. Ministers in this Building should not operate a cosy, business-as-usual approach to Donald Trump for those reasons and more. Recent concerns about tariff wars really show how it is counterproductive, futile and damaging to have a whole economy, North and South, based on and catering for US corporations and the mega-rich. We need a new economic strategy that breaks with Trump and all the policies that he espouses. Walls need to be torn down, and the rich need to pay their way. I hope that working-class people in America of all backgrounds can begin to fight that Administration. The other obvious observation about the US election is the complete and utter collapse of the Democratic Party and its vote. It lost tens of millions of votes in the election. People stayed away, and I believe that they did so for a number of reasons. First of all, Harris and Biden were unconditional supporters of Israel and its genocidal war in Gaza. Harris was also a continuity candidate who had nothing meaningful to offer tens of millions of people in America. Inflation and debt are riding roughshod over communities in America. The Democrats and Republicans are completely immune from all the pressures that are spiking food and fuel prices. The liberal centre had nothing to offer people bar, "We are not Trump". There is an important lesson in that for anyone who wants to fight the far right, racism and so on. Run-of-the-mill politics that maintain the strength of the rich and capital do not cut it. We need a new type of politics across the world that is based on international solidarity, working-class independent action and liberation movements from below so that we can push back against that Administration.
332 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Assessment
Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not flagged”.
- Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.11 (flagging needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not flagged).
- None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
- The text criticises or condemns the framing or division (0.56).
- Subject area: Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers.
- The overall probability was at or below the not-flagging threshold.
This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.
Jev’s structured answers
| Question | Probability | Met? |
|---|---|---|
| Identity framing | 0.14 | No |
| Sectarian or communal antagonism | 0.08 | No |
| Cultural grievance politics | 0.02 | No |
| Dog-whistle messaging | 0.13 | No |
| Controversy escalation | 0.22 | No |
| Legitimate policy scrutiny | 0.21 | No |
| Overall judgement | 0.11 | At or below not-flagging threshold |
| Option | Probability |
|---|---|
| No identity-based framing | 0.41 |
| Reports or questions it | 0.00 |
| Criticises or condemns it (chosen) | 0.56 |
| Adopts it | 0.03 |
| Subject | Probability |
|---|---|
| Immigration, asylum, race, ethnicity and Travellers | 0.77 |
| Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups | 0.13 |
| No identity-related subject | 0.05 |
| Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues | 0.03 |
| Another identity-related subject | 0.02 |
Assessed 21 October 2026 at 11:32 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.
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