Donald Trump is officially president in pectore of the United States. Second Political, the tycoon won at least 277 electorsthus exceeding the fateful threshold of 270 needed to reach the White House. Not only that. Trump also obtained a majority in the popular vote: the last Republican candidate to achieve this result was George W. Bush in 2004. The tycoon is therefore on his way to being the first American president, after Grover Cleveland, to serve two non-consecutive terms .
“This was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time. There has never been anything like it in this country, and perhaps beyond. And now it will reach a new level of importance because we will help our country heal,” he said in his victory speech. “We will help our country here. We have a country that needs help, and it desperately needs it. We will fix our borders. We’re going to fix everything about our country and we made history for a reason tonight. And the reason will be precisely this. We have overcome obstacles that no one thought possible,” he continued. “I will fight for you, for your family and for your future. Every single day, I will fight for you,” he continued.
In particular, Trump achieved victory by first taking three of the seven key states: Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia. This trio guaranteed him success a few hours after the counting began. But the tycoon didn’t stop there. He also won Wisconsin and will likely win Michigan, Nevada and Arizona as well. This means that Trump has managed to expand his message beyond just the blue-collar workers of the Rust Belt.
In fact, let us remember that the hinterlands of the large cities in Georgia and North Carolina tend to be wealthy and inhabited by white-collar workers: these are historically Republican fiefdoms which, however, in 2020, had turned their backs on Trump. With yesterday’s victory, the tycoon was in other words capable of building an interclass and multiracial coalition. The former president has in fact proved capable of nibbling away at significant margins of the African-American and Hispanic vote.
For its part, Harris suffered from structural problems and significant errors. Suddenly finding herself a presidential candidate, without popular investiture and only three months before the vote, the vice president did not prove capable of solidly setting up her campaign, also remaining weighed down by Joe Biden’s unpopularity. All this, without neglecting some significant strategic errors: from having chosen a politically insignificant deputy like Tim Walz to having avoided journalistic interviews for the entire first month of the campaign: a behavior that increased suspicion and hatred among voters by the same media which, at least initially, were not very hostile to her.
Finally, pay attention to Congress: the Senate has returned to a Republican majority, while we still have to wait for the House (although it seems likely that it could remain under GOP control). It is clear that the Democratic Party is now destined to enter a phase of internal reckoning: a reckoning which, according to those in the know, had begun even before theElection Day. However, this does not mean that, in perspective, this situation is not good for the Democrats. A desert crossing favors internal dialectics. And it could finally help the Donkey to archive that old establishment that has just brought him to ruin. Because in the end that’s what happened, it was a cynical game of slaughter. First they brutally torpedoed Biden. Then, just as brutally, they sent Harris electorally crashing.
