Republican Donald Trump has won an unequivocal victory in the US election against Vice President and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, giving him clear mandate and freedom of action. On this occasion, France Press presents several conclusions that can be drawn from the outcome of this vote, BTA reported.
The race was shaping up to be extremely contested. But in the end, even as ballots continue to be counted, Trump has made a resounding return to the presidency, and by a larger margin than expected. That was perhaps the real surprise of the vote. Experts and sociologists expected that the difference between the two candidates would be insignificant and even that the results would not be known for several days.
But no. First Fox News, close to Trump, declared him the winner at 2 a.m. local time. A few hours later, other media
followed her example
Trump, 78, had already won most of the swing states before he reached and passed the famous 270 electoral votes he needed to be elected president. Following his winning states were North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin. Three of those states voted for Democrat Joe Biden in 2020.
And the icing on the cake was that he was on his way to winning the popular vote nationally for the first time since Republican George W. Bush 20 years ago.
In addition to the White House, Republicans are taking back the majority in the Senate from the Democrats and could retain control of the House of Representatives. "Control of the House of Representatives is now the big bet and will have a significant impact on the direction of the next four years," Julian Zelitzer, a professor of history at Princeton University, emphasizes.
In addition to a conservative majority on the Supreme Court, which he himself shaped as a conservative body by nominating three conservative justices to it during his first term as president, Trump gets it all.
He is not far from full power, which gives rise to fears, as the "New York Times" writes, that he will become a "strongman". Many experts also say that Trump will feel free to do whatever he wants by surrounding himself with loyal people instead of advisers who are able to curb his impulses.
"It remains to be seen how much the Republican Party will stay together now that it is back in power," says Wendy Schiller of Brown University.
Trump is mobilizing his electoral base more than ever. He also expanded it. Hispanic voters in the U.S. again took his side, but also black voters, who are generally thought to vote Democratic. This happened in key states that contributed to Donald Trump's victory.
According to an NBC exit poll, Trump won 12 percent of the black vote and 45 percent of the Hispanic vote, up from 8 percent and 32 percent, respectively, in 2020. It's even more impressive when we talk about the ratio of men to women. A majority of Latino men in the US and 20 percent of black men voted for Trump this time.
It is also symbolic that Trump became the first Republican to win in Florida's Miami-Dade County since 1988 and the first since the 19th century to win in a Hispanic district on the state's U.S.-Mexico border Texas.
"Democrats' failure in the election can partly be attributed to Joe Biden. He should never have tried to run for re-election at age 80 and finally let Harris run a brief campaign to replace him, which turned out to be inadequate, said Larry Sabato, a political scientist at the University of Virginia.
Vice President Harris, who recently turned 60 and would have been the first female president of the United States, failed to assemble the coalition that brought to power first Barack Obama and then Biden. She was thrown into the race in July when Biden withdrew, the analyst notes.
Harris described his opponent as a dictator "fascist" and as a danger to women's rights, but she failed to convince voters on economic issues.
Inflation and immigration were the leading themes of the election campaign. Trump's fiery statements against migrants paid off, but according to exit polls, it was the economy above all that contributed to the Republican's victory. It was motivated in part by dissatisfaction with the high cost of living due to post-pandemic inflation, which has increased the price of consumer goods by more than 20 percent during Biden's tenure.