I walked across the south of America in a Black Lives Matter shirt — this is what happened
Bolstered by interactions like these, Bliss completed his walk, and arrived in Washington DC in time for the 2020 election. But five years later, with Trump back in power, does he think anything has changed? 'The dynamics are changing,' he says. 'I believe it was Hispanic men that voted in majority in favor of Trump in 2024 and so, yeah, I think there's a lot of blurring of lines that wasn't so much the case in say, 2016 or 2020. We're seeing that things are getting more complicated with every year.'
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