A second round of tramping is just around the corner.
Former President Donald Trump is expected to be sworn in as the 47th president early Wednesday, completing one of the most surprising political comebacks in American history.
Mr. Trump, 78, reversed his 2020 losses in key states of Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, securing a landslide victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the Electoral College and winning votes from rural and working-class whites. While there were large differences between the groups, there was also significant progress among ethnic minorities. .
In an eerie repeat of the scenes from election night 2016, the thousands of Harris supporters who gathered on the campus of Veep's alma mater, Howard University, to watch the results announced were convinced that their candidate would not win. She was shocked by the revelation and burst into tears. win.
In the end, it was not Harris, but her campaign co-chairman Cedric Richmond, who informed the devastated crowd that the Democratic candidate would be absent.
“There are still votes to be counted…so we won't be hearing from the vice president tonight,” said Richmond, a former Louisiana congressman and President Biden official. “She will be back here tomorrow.”
“Go to HU, go to Harris.”
The 45th president sent a fierce message to male voters in the final days of the campaign, organizing a marathon schedule of rallies and media appearances, including a shift at a McDonald's in Pennsylvania, and expressing his overwhelming confidence in the 60-year-old Harris. It was showing.
Harris, on the other hand, downplayed both her chances of making history as the first female president and her racial identity as the son of Jamaican and Indian immigrants.
Instead, she campaigned as a small business warrior for the middle class while repudiating a number of former leftist positions she espoused as district attorney of San Francisco, California attorney general, and Golden State state senator. It seemed like he was doing it.
Trump's victory makes him the 22nd president in 1884 and the 24th president in 1892, second only to Republican Benjamin Harrison, who served as president for four years. He became the second president elected.
The race was widely considered to be a close one leading up to Election Day, after both candidates' surrogates made spectacular gaffes that drew widespread media attention.
The 45th president was rejected by voters after his first term in 2020, and Harris was promoted to the Democratic nomination only after President Biden announced on July 21 that he would not seek re-election. When you think about it, both Trump and Harris had to face American voters as incumbents of sorts. semester.
On October 27, a massive Trump rally at Madison Square Garden turned into a media storm after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made an off-topic joke calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of trash.” .
Days later, Biden called Trump's supporters “trash” and undermined Harris' “joy” and bipartisan message. The comments were secretly edited by White House press aides without the assistance of the official stenographer in the presidential palace.
Mr. Biden, 81, had previously undermined his former vice presidential candidate with a tougher message about the dangers of a second Trump administration that could alienate some swing voters. .
“We have to lock him up,” the president said at the Democratic Party's campaign office in Concord, New Hampshire, two weeks before voters headed to the polls, and quickly reversed course. I have to do it. ”
Biden has also displayed strange behavior since abandoning his 2024 candidacy, including wearing a red “TRUMP” hat at a firehouse in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after a 9/11 memorial event.
Meanwhile, the 45th president is facing unprecedented criminal charges from New York, South Florida, Washington, D.C., and Georgia, including two charges that he illegally conspired to overturn the 2020 election results. are.
In the most surprising moment of the campaign, Mr. Trump was arrested twice after being searched by would-be assassins at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on July 13th and at a golf course in West Palm Beach on September 15th. I cheated death.
Republicans compared President Trump to “fascist” dictators like Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and criticized Democrats for potentially arousing militants with rhetoric that could end American democracy. denounced.
The Trump campaign also operated under the cover of both espionage and potential death threats from Iran, leading to the thwarting of a new assassination plot by alleged Iranian government agents and the prosecution of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps hackers. Ta.
Harris is the oldest president in history to be ousted in the 2024 presidential race by top Democrats in Congress, including House Speaker Emeritus Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and major party donors, including Hollywood movie star George Clooney. He secured the party's nomination in August, shortly after a palace coup. Ballot paper.
The effort followed the disastrous debate between Biden and Trump on June 27, the earliest such showdown in an election cycle, during which the president He spoke sluggishly and sometimes incoherently.
Biden campaign staffers said afterward that he had a cold, but Harris said when did she first learn of her boss's mental lapse, which was shown to millions of viewers that night? While dodging pointed questions about what happened, he continued to call the performance just a “bad night.”
The vice president continued his record-breaking fundraising campaign from July to September, with total donations exceeding $1 billion.
The targeted ads purchased with the money introduced Harris on the national stage as a former prosecutor-turned-congressman with a centrist focus on border security and the economy.
The Trump-led fundraising effort has received significant funding from Democratic defectors such as hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who have previously He even launched a new PAC to spend $80 billion on his presidential bid.
Harris has supported banning fracking, passing Medicare for All and decriminalizing border crossings, even as she faces more radical proposals she has championed as a senator, such as taxpayer-funded gender reassignment surgery for incarcerated immigrants. The government has withdrawn previous pledges such as criminalization.
Trump said he would close the border, halt record numbers of border crossings, roll back regulations that hampered the country's oil and gas industry and end the Russia-Ukraine conflict during the Harris-Biden administration. He campaigned on a promise.
He also proposed implementing taxpayer-funded in vitro fertilization for couples and eliminating taxes on tips for hospitality workers, which Harris borrowed as part of her platform.
