ANALYSIS – Despite all the talk of an election that was too close to call, former Republican President Donald Trump has secured a historic and decisive victory in the 2024 presidential contest after soundly defeating Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris.
As of this writing Trump has 295 Electoral College votes vs Harris’ 224, 25 more than needed to win the White House.
Trump responds on Truth Social, "BIG WIN FOR AMERICA!!!" https://t.co/oDfq5Dixpo pic.twitter.com/BD0m63bYXY
— Charlotte Scott (@reportsbychar) March 4, 2024
He is only the second president to be elected to two nonconsecutive terms and the first convicted of felonies (albeit phony felonies).
Trump is also on track to be the first Republican to win the popular vote in 20 years when George W. Bush won in 2004. Trump is rightfully claiming he has been given a mandate by the American people.
As of this morning, Trump had won about 71.4 million votes to Harris’s 66.1 million, though millions of ballots in populous California are yet to be reported. In 2016, Trump lost the popular vote margin to Hillary Clinton by about three million votes.
This is quite the comeback as he left office in 2021 with plummeting approval ratings and the country reeling following the Capitol riot.
Claiming victory at a rally in Florida on Wednesday morning, Trump told supporters that he would usher in “a new golden age” and “restore America to greatness.”
Harris, despite the Democrat media boosters, celebrities, and an unprecedented billion-dollar war chest, underperformed across the country, falling behind in several swing states that Joe Biden had won.
She sent her supporters home early this morning without addressing the crowd. She is expected to speak later today.
But it wasn’t just the battlegrounds: Trump achieved double-digit gains in states as deep-blue states as New York and New Jersey, helped Republicans take the Senate and possibly keep the House, and cemented Florida as a conservative haven.
Control of the House is still up for grabs, but maintaining a slim GOP majority seems very possible.
Republican control of Congress would allow Trump to more easily pass his key proposals through the legislature—including his pledges to enforce mass deportations of illegal aliens, dismantle racist DEI (“diversity”) efforts, push back on the radical trans agenda for kids and to enact sweeping tax cuts.
Trump has also vowed to drastically reshape the federal government—pledging to dismiss thousands of career civil servants and replace them with political appointees. At his rally in Florida, Trump said he had won “an unprecedented and powerful mandate” to impose that agenda.
To achieve his astounding victory Trump built a more diverse coalition of voters than any Republican nominee in 20 years. His multiracial juggernaut, with a surge in Latino and Black male support, will likely fundamentally reorient American politics for a generation.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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