Posted on 11/06/2024 5:19:28 AM PST by MtnClimber
Despite felony convictions, the Republican nominee will carry the Electoral College; GOP recaptures the U.S. Senate; Legal Abortion measures prevail in Arizona, Colorado, Maryland, Nebraska, and New York, but not Florida.
At 2:24 AM, a mere 144 minutes after one of the most tumultuous election days in American history, Donald Trump was guaranteed a second term as president as the Associated Press called Pennsylvania for the Republican presidential nominee, the first candidate since Grover Cleveland to lose the presidency and then recapture the White House.
“We’ve achieved the most incredible political thing, political victory, that our country has never seen before—nothing like this,” Trump told supporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida earlier in the evening. Even opponents could agree that Trump’s rise from his 2020 electoral defeat, January 6 disgrace, and multiple legal defeats, including 34 felony counts and legal liability for defamation and sexual assault, represented a comeback of stunning proportions. And it wasn’t even that close, as the 78-year-old defeated Kamala Harris, the vice president and Democratic nominee who secured her spot atop the ticket after President Joe Biden, 81, withdrew from the race this summer following a devastating performance in the first presidential debate. She became the first major party candidate to win a nomination without entering a primary since Hubert Humphrey in 1968.
Pennsylvania, long considered the most pivotal swing state, embodied the Democratic disaster that was the 2024 presidential election. The Republican presidential ticket of Trump and Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio did far better than that of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, who won the Keystone State in 2020. The GOP performance rose in Chester and Delaware, suburban counties of Philadelphia that were key to Democratic hopes, across the state’s conservative interior, and even in inner-city Philadelphia where the 60-year-old Californian and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, hemorrhaged Black and Hispanic votes.
Earlier in the evening, Democratic anxieties grew as maps of Georgia, a state Biden won narrowly against Trump four years ago, fell into the Republican column, as did closely contested North Carolina, another state where the Democrats’ much-anticipated wave of women angered by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority evisceration of abortion rights in 2022 failed to materialize to the degree needed to overcome Trump’s strength.
Harris did not match Biden’s 2020 performance with white, non-college-educated women, Black men, and especially among Latinos. Trump appeared to have outright won a majority of Latino men.
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25% of the black male vote could be the beginning of a shift in the political landscape. President Trump’s share of the Latino vote certainly is. Now if only the Republicans can keep that coalition together.
Trump has appealed those felony convictions.
He has to bring back the “Rising tide lifts all boats” economy again.
Not going to be so easy, and there will be active opposition.
There is also a time crunch, less than two years or the D’s will gain seats at the next election.
Being evil.
............planning a Bidenesque election steal for sure.......
I am so looking forward to seeing Mayorkas, Wray, Garland, KJP and a host of others kicked out the door.
To me, this is more proof the 2020 election was stolen by the democrats. Had they not stolen it and TRUMP made President in 2020, he would be out of their hair by now. Instead we have FOUR MORE YEARS OF TRUMP!
I love the taste of democrat tears in the morning. Tastes like VICTORY!
I popped over to Democrat Underachievers to relish in the ranting but found that they were offline to all except paid members. The note suggested that they may be unavailable for several days.
The puddles of liberal tears must be bigger than what the mops can absorb.
The PA win was the most stunning. WI is close as usual. MI a little bit better for Trump.
Despite the closeness of WI, it’s the largest Republican win there since Reagan in 1984. Bush lost WI to Dukakis in 1988.
The DUmmies must be screaming at the sky today.
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