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After winning the 2024 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump has made an incredible political comeback and taken back the White House.
He is only the second president in history to win a second non-consecutive term, and the first in more than 130 years.
A twice-impeached president who was found guilty earlier this year of numerous charges of business fraud and who left office in 2021 after being accused of inciting an attack on the U.S. Capitol building, his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris represents a stunning comeback.
In addition to becoming the oldest president ever to be sworn in, Trump, 78, will surpass Joe Biden’s record by five months.
On a night reminiscent of 2016, he achieved his incredible triumph by sweeping the crucial swing states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, and North Carolina.
On Wednesday, the race was only three minutes after the Associated Press called Wisconsin at 5:34 a.m. (ET).
That night, Harris refused to give in. Her campaign co-chair, former Representative Cedric Richmond, instead declared just after midnight that she had gone to bed and would not be speaking to supporters until “tomorrow.”
The 78-year-old Trump will also become the oldest president ever inaugurated, beating President Joe Biden’s record by five months. (Pictured: Vice President-elect JD Vance on stage in West Palm Beach with Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner)
The call for Trump in North Carolina at 11:19 p.m. (ET) was the turning point.
Then, the subdued audience at the official Republican watch party, which was hosted in a convention facility in West Palm Beach, Florida, burst into a jittery energy release.
Meanwhile, at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, where he sat with friends and family to watch the results come in, the atmosphere shifted from cautious optimism to “a sense of destiny,” according to one guest.
‘We’re going to help our country heal,’ Trump said to his adoring fans as he took the stage at the convention center early on Wednesday morning, accompanied by his celebrated family and campaign team.
He declared, “I think this was the greatest political movement ever.” “The American people have achieved a great victory that will enable us to restore America’s greatness.”
Undoubtedly, Trump’s overwhelming victory ends a turbulent 2024 campaign that was marked by two startling assassination attempts on Trump and Biden’s abrupt resignation from the race in July.
However, he will now be in charge of a divided nation that is not showing any signs of reconciliation due to his divisive speech and penchant for personal attacks.
In March of this year, Trump easily defeated other Republican candidates, including as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, after declaring he will run again in November 2022.
He had a sizable lead in polls going into the summer over President Biden, 81, whose immigration and economic policies, together with the evident issue of his advanced age, were failing miserably with Americans.
Trump benefited even more from the now-famous June 27 CNN television discussion between the two presumed nominees, in which Biden stumbled and froze, seemingly unable to adequately respond to even simple questions.
Thomas Matthew Crooks, a would-be assassin, shot Trump in the right ear on July 13 when he was speaking to the fans at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump stood up after being surrounded by Secret Service officers, his face bloodied and his shoes missing, and he pumped his fist in the air while yelling, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
He was greeted like a hero at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a few days later.
In support of the former president, MAGA followers put fake bandages on their ears. On the last night, Trump gave a powerful speech to a full convention center, declaring that he would be a “president for all of America.”
For a president who has been impeached twice, his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris represents an incredible comeback.
Three days later, however, everything was different. Biden announced his withdrawal from the 2024 race in a shocking letter put on X when he and his family were holed up at Camp David.
Within an hour, he endorsed Kamala Harris as his Democratic successor, writing, “I think it is best for my party and the country for me to step down and to concentrate only on carrying out my duties as President for the remainder of my term.”
In just one day, Harris raised almost $100 million in donations thanks to his quick mobilization of support. She was comfortably ahead of Trump in the polls when she formally accepted the party nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago the following month, which was attended by celebrities including Oprah, Eva Longoria, and Kerry Washington.
Then, on September 10, Harris defeated Trump in their first and last television debate. He made the outrageous claim that Haitian migrants were “eating the dogs […] eating the cats” of Americans, which quickly became a viral meme on the internet.
Harris’s popularity was so high that a second attempt to kill Trump on his golf course in West Palm Beach a few days later hardly made a difference.
The Trump campaign suffered new setbacks when Ohio Senator JD Vance, his running mate and now the vice president-elect, was subjected to a series of discredited remarks in which he disparaged female Democrats.
In one of his most scathing interviews from 2021, he referred to Harris and other childless women as “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives.”
In fact, the gender gap quickly emerged as a major aspect of the 2024 election.
Particularly controversial with female voters has been Trump’s assistance in overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, which eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion and gave the states back control over relevant legislation.
Three days later, however, everything was different. Biden declared he was leaving the 2024 campaign while holed up in Camp David with his family. Within an hour, he backed Kamala Harris to succeed him on the Democratic ticket. She quickly rallied support and raised over $100 million in donations in a single day.
According to this Sunday’s final ABC/Ipsos poll, Harris had an 11-point lead among women.
However, it appears that abortion wasn’t the solution Harris had hoped for in the end. The contentious 6-week abortion ban proposed by Governor DeSantis was also on the ballot in Florida. However, Democrats failed for the first time on Tuesday, failing to secure the 60 percent of votes required to overturn the Florida prohibition, even though they had won every other pro-abortion ballot issue since Roe was overturned.
In contrast, Trump has significantly increased his support among men this year. It seems that a sizable male voter turnout helped Trump win the election in the end, despite worries that he and Vance were making it too “bro-tastic” with a shirt-ripping Hulk Hogan.
Harris’s sizable poll advantage dwindled in recent weeks when she ultimately gave in to pressure to participate in demanding TV interviews. Even supporters were angry at her long and frequently nonsensical responses to questions; last month, prominent Dem strategist David Axelrod accused Harris of going to “word salad city.”
Pollsters nearly all agreed in the closing days of the campaign that this contest was too close to call.
However, several Trump-friendly observers cited the fact that he routinely receives fewer votes and that a dead heat indicated he was ahead.
Undoubtedly, Trump benefited from the Southern border immigration crisis, the economy and inflation, and the foreign policy record of the Biden-Harris administration, which included the disastrous 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, and the start of the war in Israel last year.
Trump must now get ready for government once more after winning, surely with the help of a group of MAGA supporters who have supported him through turbulent scandals.
He included members of the military and the Republican National Committee in 2016, who were viewed as moderating influences.
This time, he is in charge of the RNC, which is led by his daughter-in-law, Lara Trump. Trump is unfit for government, according to military officials who served in his first administration, including General John Kelly, who was his chief of staff.
Trump’s detractors worry that his new government will be staffed with radicals who will give the president the freedom to do as he pleases.
Trump swiftly issued an executive order on the first day of 2017 that prohibited travel from seven nations, the majority of which are Muslim.
This time, he has pledged to start mass deportations of illegal immigrants, release some prisoners found guilty of January 6 violations, and dismiss the special counsel who is bringing charges against him for allegedly interfering in elections.
Over the past four years, the American public’s perception of his first term has shifted away from the shame of the Jan. 6 riots and his fabricated accusations of a “stolen vote” following Biden’s close victory over him in 2020. Instead, they are recalling the robust economy and safe borders that he managed.
Trump boldly launched his campaign on the heels of the Republicans’ very poor 2022 midterm results, but it was his charisma that finally allowed him to seize the party’s base and return to unassailable public prominence.
The pivotal event occurred during the last hours of the election, when Trump wore an apron and worked the fry station at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania last month, according to Tim Murtaugh, the communications chief for Team Trump, who spoke to the Daily Mail.
He stated, “It wasn’t necessarily the act of running the drive-thru window or preparing French fries.”
“It was when he came down the street in Bucks County [PA] in the motorcade.” We did not create the mob of 10,000 people that were ten deep on either side of the roadway.
The McDonald’s stunt was intended to go unpublicized, but a local newspaper learned about it and ran an article, drawing an impromptu throng.
Ultimately, a similarly impromptu and substantial turnout of voters, both on election day and in early votes, helped propel Trump to victory and launched a second term that will undoubtedly be just as significant and spectacular as the first.
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