Donald Trump achieved the most improbable comeback in American political history on Tuesday night, likely securing a return trip to the White House by overcoming a relentless wave of opposition from the media, Big Tech, and Democrats that extended from courtrooms to social media platforms. Trump was set to become only the second American president to serve non-consecutive terms, but he did so against far greater odds than Grover Cleveland did a century earlier—having been impeached and acquitted twice, indicted four times, facing two assassination attempts, and enduring an unprecedented barrage of legal challenges.
More significantly than his personal journey to becoming President-Elect 47, Trump orchestrated a historic political realignment, one that is deeper and more pervasive than his surprising 2016 victory, as he successfully attracted long-standing constituencies away from the Democratic Party, Just the News reported. The electoral shift may soon be referred to as D-Exit, the American equivalent of Great Britain’s Brexit departure from the European Union, as Black males, Hispanic voters, and young voters rallied more strongly behind Trump and were less enthusiastic about Harris compared to Joe Biden or Barack Obama. Additionally, Arab and Muslim voters also showed diminished support for Harris.
While the changes were modest, they were significant, undermining a coalition established during the Kennedy-Johnson era that was crucial to the Obama-Biden legacy, which dominated 12 of the last 16 years, the outlet noted further. The shifts toward Trump were alarming for Democrats. He halved the Democratic margin of victory in one of America’s bluest states, New York, and reduced it by two-thirds in the Democratic stronghold of Illinois. Trump won Florida—the site of the contentious 2020 election—by 15 points, effectively transforming the Sunshine State from a battleground.
He also claimed victories in Georgia and North Carolina, and was on track to win Arizona and Nevada. Pennsylvania was called for Trump, with Wisconsin and Michigan leaning strongly in his favor. He achieved a Senate majority and was in a strong position to retain control of the U.S. House, setting the stage for a predominantly red Washington in 2025. Perhaps most painful for blue America, Trump is in a position to win the popular vote, a metric that Democrats have historically used to delegitimize previous GOP victories, including Trump’s win in 2016.
Mark Penn, the strategist behind the Clinton dynasty, succinctly described D-Exit early Wednesday morning. “The Trump edge is turning into a Trump trifecta. It looks like despite a good effort in a short period of time, Harris is falling short especially with young people and turnout in core urban areas. Black and especially Latino voters showed some shifts,” he noted on X. “Trump has brought home with working class and created a new coalition of governing but the country remains divided and whoever wins must remember it’s time to genuinely reach out to the many moderate voters looking for the right leadership.”
Trump achieved this by directly engaging with constituencies that Republicans had often overlooked in the past and that Democrats had long taken for granted. He invited former Democrats and steadfast independents to join him on the big stage, including figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Elon Musk, ex-Rep and presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, and prominent podcaster Joe Rogan, to name a few.
He ventured into places like the Bronx and Madison Square Garden in New York, signaling his desire to be the president for all Americans. While Democrats focused on abstract ideological concepts like ESG, CRT, and DEI, Trump spoke about tangible issues like kitchen table concerns, grocery prices, and gas costs. He warned of energy poverty, acknowledging that many were struggling to pay their utility bills.
Trump framed the electric vehicle revolution as a debate about exporting jobs to China and positioned the liberal transgender movement as a discussion about the safety and dignity of women’s sports, as well as the sanctity of parental rights. While Democrats made a historic shift at the top of their ticket by replacing an aging Biden with a younger female Harris, they failed to change the core debate. Trump focused on issues of insecurity, inflation, and societal chaos, while Democrats offered few specifics in response, Just the News added.
Ultimately, Trump’s track record of economic growth during his first term was more appealing than Harris’s vague proposals. His optimism that the nation’s challenges could be addressed resonated more than Harris’s bleak warnings about fascism, extremism, and figures reminiscent of Hitler threatening democracy. All of the left’s efforts to vilify MAGA may have inadvertently transformed it into a more appealing vision, the outlet noted.
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