Donald Trump was chosen as the 47th president of the United States. This was a shocking political comeback that shocked people all over the world.
Trump is the first person who has been convicted of a crime to win the White House. He is also the oldest person ever chosen to the office, at 78 years old.
Because Trump is a chaotic leader and has made friends with dictators like Vladimir Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-un of North Korea, this result will set off warning bells in other countries. Vice-President Kamala Harris, who ran against him, and some of his former White House staff called him a threat to democracy and even a Nazi.
But the American people were still willing to put those worries aside and give the property developer turned reality TV star the nuclear codes a second time.
Harris, a Democrat, wanted to be the first woman, first Black woman, and first south Asian American to become president in the US’s 248-year history. She lost to Trump. At 5:37 a.m. ET, the Associated Press said that Wisconsin was going to vote for Trump. The state’s 10 electoral college votes brought Trump’s total to 277, which is more than the 270 votes he needs to win the presidency.
Harris, who is 60 years old, used reproductive rights and personal freedoms as a rallying cry and backed a national law that would make it easier for people to get safe abortions. Supporters are devastated and anxious about her loss, which reminds them of Hillary Clinton’s terrible loss in 2016.
But Trump has now made the most unlikely of comebacks. Many political experts thought that his loss to Joe Biden in 2020 would be the end of his political career. This was especially true when a group of angry fans, fuelled by his lie that the election was stolen, stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, leading to his second impeachment.
Trump’s hold on the Republican party was briefly shaky, but it stayed strong. After being found guilty of sexual abuse, the three-times-married New Yorker stayed an unlikely hero among evangelical Christians and the white working class. However, polls showed that he gained a small but significant number of votes from African American and Latino voters.
Any other candidate would have been destroyed by four criminal cases, including a conviction on 34 felony counts for hiding hush money payments to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. But Trump’s support among his “Make America Great Again” (Maga) supporters seemed to grow stronger.
Trump swatted opponents away and insulted them as he won the Republican presidential nomination for the third time in a row. Before the party conference in July, he narrowly avoided being killed at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Many of his supporters saw this as a sign from God; in September, another would-be killer was caught at one of Trump’s Florida golf courses.
In the meantime, Joe Biden quit as the likely Democratic nominee in July after a terrible showing in the debates, and Harris was named his replacement. Democrats got a boost from her “politics of joy,” and it looked like she changed the course of a race that was losing steam.
The battle lasted just over 100 days, which is the shortest time span in modern history. It happened during hurricanes at home and wars abroad. Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and a tech entrepreneur, gave away millions of dollars to voters in key states who signed a petition linked to his political action committee. This was a big help to Trump.
Up until the end, the race looked very close. The final New York Times/Siena College national poll, which came out on October 25, showed that both candidates had 48% of the vote.
Trump’s success shows that his often rude, confusing, dishonest, and racist campaign message still hit home with voters who were fed up with the current political system. It was also a rejection of Biden’s work to get bills passed and his grave warnings about how dangerous Trump is to US institutions and global security.
The election results could cause huge riots and shaking all over the country. Trump’s campaign was based on a common theme: nativist populism. He promised to deport the most undocumented people ever, calling them “animals” with “bad genes” who were “poisoning the blood of the country.” The rest of the world, he said, saw the US as “like a garbage can.”
The former president also used his criminal charges as a political attack, threatening “retribution” against people he saw as enemies and using more and more dystopian language. He said scary things like he would use the military against “enemies from within” in the country and promised to free followers who were jailed for the January 6 uprising.
President Grover Cleveland was in office from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. Trump will be the first president to serve two terms that were not straight.
As vice president, Harris will lead a special session of Congress in January to make sure the election results are official. JD Vance, a 40-year-old senator from Ohio, will take over as vice president after her. Unlike the current vice president, Mike Pence, Vance has refused to admit that Trump lost four years ago.
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